Emily: "So... you gouged out her eye, because she spared the life of a child..."
Lute: "Yes."
Emily: "And then you ripped off her wings."
Lute: "Yes."
Emily: "And then, when she spared YOUR life, you.... ripped off your own... arm?"
Lute: "Yes."
Emily: "Lute-"
Lute: "What?"
Emily: "Did you know heaven has some very successful therapy programs?"
Lute: "I'm going to rip out her other eye before killing her."
Emily: "I'm signing you up for ALL of the therapy programs."
378 notes
路
View notes
Big fan of the way Dracula Daily hasn't broken out of Tumblr in any real way
primarily, because I love being able to casually mention it to non-tumblr friends like I'm just that kind of cool, intellectual and cultural person who signs up to projects where you read a classic novel over the course of 6 months, and not because it's a big social media trend.
Whilst, actually it is a big social media trend, and I get to make and see lots of stupid memes and just, have fun with y'all in this space
4K notes
路
View notes
It's funny, when I say that Austen didn't advise marrying a rake or a Gothic hero, someone replies, "They've mistaken Austen for the Bront毛 sisters." (usually meaning Emily and Charlotte).
Except... Emily and Charlotte didn't advocate reforming a rake either. Jane Eyre famously GTFO when she learned that Rochester was trying to commit bigamy and she didn't return without divine intervention to a man who had been half-smitted by God for his sins. Isabella may have originally thought she could reform Heathcliff, but pretty quickly she fled from her marriage, never returned, and did everything she could to keep her son from him.
Maybe we could just stop blaming these literary women for things they didn't even do, not that we really need to blame anyone since I'm fairly certain that writing a love story where a heroine reforms a rake isn't the root cause of all evil.
173 notes
路
View notes
Any slight, such as an insult or the loss of a particular prize, may threaten a leaders whole identity as well as his standing in the eyes of his peers and his inferiors. The furious insults hurled by Achilles and Agamemnon at each other in book one may seem overblown or even ridiculous unless we realize how much both men have to lose from even the smallest diminution of honor. Those who are the greatest winners can be damaged most by any loss. Privilege entails terrible vulnerability. The elite warrior earns his social privileges, such as the best cuts of meat at banquets, by fighting at the front lines of battle and thus risking his life. This trade is worthwhile, as Sarpedon movingly explains because nobody, even those without any honor at all, gets to live forever.
-emily wilson, introduction to the iliad
197 notes
路
View notes