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jjxkiaraxpopexcleoxjohnbxsarah · 18 days

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When a British writer writes an American fic:

#help #british writer #mine #honestly like let's all have the same educational system please

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the-cricket-chirps · 5 months

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Nancy Cunard

Cecil Beaton, 1927

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mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora · 5 months

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L’Impostore, Z. Smith, 2023

#zadie smith #the fraud: a novel #the fraud #l’impostore #english literature #british literature #british writer #contemporary literature #literature #italian translation #translation #book quotes #mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora

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fyeahtimwalker · 5 months

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Kae Tempest by Tim Walker for Vogue UK, December 2023

Styled by Edward Enninful.

#tim walker #kae tempest #british vogue #vogue uk #vogue #editorial #british photographer #poet #british writer #british poetry #portrait photography #2023 #december 2023

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elsie-dee · 5 months

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Asking for GO fic recs again!

This time my criteria is - and I’m truly sorry if this upsets any writers who are all very talented, but the anachronisms just take me out of the story every time - British writers! Or at least those who’ve been careful to keep the British details. So many otherwise great fics I’ve read have C + A use US English terms for things, or they mention situations that don’t exist in the UK (valet parking, having one specific ‘server’ that waits your table, navigating by ‘blocks’).

I’m not complaining, I love all you fic writers and really appreciate your efforts to entertain us! But personally it pulls me out of the story when the characters use OOC language or a thing occurs that just doesn’t exist in the UK.

Perhaps there’s a tag I don’t know about that filters for this?

#good omens #fic rec #british #british writer

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major2501 · 29 days

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I've finally finished the first draft of the first book in my novel, My First Coven after nearly 3 years. Now on to editing it. The whole thing can be read over on wattpad if you're interested. Let me know what you think! 😀

#writing #original fiction #british writer #novel writing #witches #coming of age #boarding school #vampires #england #romantasy #romance story #supernatural story #fantasy novel #fantasy #wattpad

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quaintrelledragicorn · 8 months

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Words are like stories. They change as they are passed from mouth to mouth; their meanings stretch or truncate to fit what needs to be said. - Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

Admont Abbey Library

#dark academia #light academia #book quotes #chaotic academia #quote #books and libraries #literature #dictionary of lost words #linguist #pip williams #british writers #british writer

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lilianeruyters · 1 year

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Douglas Stuart || Young Mungo

Apparently it has become the custom at some universities to protect gentle souls by warning them against the content of some novels. ‘Be careful, Austen and the Brontë sisters are unfriendly towards women! Be careful, Shakespeare is a sexist racist!’ I am afraid Young Mungo might get a multitude of warnings, stopping those gentle souls from even giving it a try. And to be quite honest, in this…

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#reading is fun #Booker Prize #British writer #Douglas Stuart #economy #eighties #Gay literature #glasgow #Great reading #LHBTI literature #literature #Picador #unemployment #Young Mungo

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 5 months

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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lonestark-blog · 5 months

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Thoughts on Benjamin Zephaniah & The Editing Phase

Summary on the passing of Benjamin Zephaniah and my second book.

I’ll start off by offering my condolences to the late Benjamin Zephaniah and his family and friends. I was startled when I heard that the famous poet, passed away suddenly last week. I wasn’t even aware he was 65 years old. Didn’t think he was that old or that young and, to me, that is still too early to pass away. I read some of his poetry growing up, which had some influence on me when I was…

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#Benjamin Zephaniah #Black Writer #Black writers #British Writer #Poet #RIP #Sci-fi books #self-publishing #writer

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olganmwriter · 8 months

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#TuesdayBookBlog Escape to California: Misadventures in America's Golden State by Chris Atkin (@chrisjat)

Hi, all: I bring you today a non-fiction book that I am sure many of you will enjoy and find amusing. The author has a lot of experience writing, although he hasn’t published many books, yet. Escape to California: Misadventures in America’s Golden State by Chris Atkin Escape to California: Misadventures in America’s Golden State by Chris Atkins “Utterly compelling”“I really can’t recommend…

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#British writer #California #COVID-19 #fire #National Parks #nature #non-fiction #Trekking #USA

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elelandia · 8 months

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Lutto e Young Adult: Nation di Terry Pratchett

Direttamente dalla pila della vergogna del Salone del libro e courtesy stand del Libraccio, un altro libro di Pratchett approda sul blog. Incredibile, lo so. Cercherò di evitare gli spoiler, i fatti di cui parlo accadono nelle prime pagine del libro e sono descritti nella quarta di copertina ma nel dubbio, siete avvisati. Questa volta è stata una lettura in lingua originale e non collegata al…

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#british writer #fantasy #libri #libri per ragazzi #nation #recensione #terry pratchett #urocronia #young adult

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the-cricket-chirps · 5 months

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Cecil Beaton, Nancy Cunard, 1929

Cecil Beaton, Nancy Cunard, circa 1920s

#cecil beaton #british photographer #British photography #nancy cunard #portrait photography #portrait art #british artist #British writer #british author #british art #portrait artist #portraiture #art history #tumblr art #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #photography

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mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora · 4 months

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Ci sono famiglie nelle quali il padre dice a suo figlio: «Avrai uno schiaffo se lo rifarai», mentre la madre, con gli occhi traboccanti di lacrime, prende il bambino in braccio e mormora amorevolmente: «Tesoro mio, perché far questo alla mamma?». Chi sosterrebbe che il secondo modo è meno tirannico del primo? La distinzione non è tanto fra violenza e non violenza ma tra l'avere o meno appetiti per il potere.

Lear, Tolstoj e il matto, G. Orwell, 1947

#george orwell #orwell’s essays #essays #british writer #politics #psychology #book quotes #italian translation #translation #reading #read in 2023 #mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora

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playitagin · 10 months

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1930-Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the Mary Celeste.

#Jul.7.1930 #date of death #Arthur Conan Doyle #British writer #Sherlock Holmes #Professor Challenger #history today

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catherinevaughan · 1 year

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Poetry is my Alchemy...

Poetry is my Alchemy…

Grief, sadness, depression and despair became my art. Their union with my inner optimism, romanticism and imagination coalesced and birthed a world of words through my poetry and fiction where love and sadness live in harmony. Where joy is light and despair it’s shadow. It has become a way to cope with life and fully live it with less fear and deeper joy than I knew possible. We can accept…

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#alchemy #British Poet #British Writer #poetry #thoughts

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