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Winter Reading Challenge
Every season I like to give myself a challenge to read. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to finish almost any of the ones I had in the autumn challenge (I'm not a procrastinator, I swear, I just have very little free time). This time, I tried to include in the list books from several fields, from prose to poetry, philosophy, theater and theater theory, biographies. There are many Russian authors in this list, it seems to me that they fit very well with the cold season. Let's hope that this time I will stick to reading more. Wish me luck!
From December 1st - February 29th (European calendar)
Leo Tolstoy – ”Childhood. Boyhood. Youth”
Leo Tolstoy – ”War and Peace”
Fyodor Dostoevsky – ”The Double” (1846)
Fyodor Dostoevsky – ”Demons”
Ivan Turghenev – ”Rudin”
Nikolai Leskov – ”Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and other short stories”
Anton Chekhov – ”Novellas and novelettes by Anton Chekhov”
Nikolai Gogol – ”Dead Souls”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – ”One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”
Mikhail Bulgakov – ”The Master and Margarita”
Maxim Gorky – ”Mother”
Vladimir Nabokov – ”Lolita”
Marguerite Yourcenar - "A Coin in Nine Hands"
Marguerite Yourcenar - "A Blue Tale"
Franz Kafka - "The Metamorphosis and other stories"
Edgar Allan Poe - "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"
John Edwards Williams - "Stoner"
Ovid - "Metamorphoses"
Dante Aligheri - "The Divine Comedy - Inferno"
Giovanni Papini - "Gog"
Plato - "Phaedo"
Aristotel - "Metaphysics "
Marcus Aurelius - "Meditations: Thoughts to Myself"
Immanuel Kant - "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Article Talk "
Niccolo Machiavelli - "The Prince"
Emil Cioran - "The Trouble With Being Born"
Peter Brook - "The Empty Space"
Jerzy Grotowski - "The Poor Theatre"
Antonin Artaud - "The Theatre and its Double"
Martin Esslin - "The Theatre of Absurd"
Salvador Dalí - "Diary of a Genius"
Vaslav Nijinsky - "The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition"
August Strindberg - "The Ghost Sonata"
William Shakespeare - "Titus Andronicus"
William Shakespeare - "Coriolanus"
Maxim Gorky - "The Lower Depths"
Racine - "Britannicus"
Goethe - "Gotz von Berlichingen"
Frank Wedekind - "The Spring Awakening"
Aeschylus - "The Oresteia" (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)
#dark academia#books and reading#bookblr#book#booklr#books#reading list#winter#russian writers#biography#philosophy#reading challenge#theatre plays#theatre#poetry
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fun thing supernatural does is giving dean lines like "there are no other men like me" "lady, i'm Tolstoy" and absolutely nothing to back that up
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oh you know jackles loved the "lady i'm tolstoy" line. he is tolstoy to HIM
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i remember loving 'the gamblers' when it first came on and i was NOT wrong!
though i do love the fact that sam left a note for cas basically saying "brb gone to alaska". and also he spelled cas' name wrong. shame!
how PAINFUL must it have been for cas to hear jack's name slammed into his teeth like that? this poor angel!
sam's outraged "we're on a BUDGET", like dean didn't spend his childhood shoplifting basic necessities to keep them fed. dean knows more than anyone what it's like to get food when you don't have any money.
jack kline, my beloved murder child! just killing people and chomping on their hearts, nbd
we LOVE dean in this episode! he is SOOOOO cocky and you know what? he's RIGHT to be so! the trick shot that he makes? and knowing that JENSEN actually made that fucking shot? absolutely insane to me. is there nothing that man cannot do. other than be completely normal with his male costars. can he do that? i think not
AGENT LIZZO has my heart forever. i would die for him. this goes without saying but i'm saying it anyway.
"beach read? lady i'm TOLSTOY" is the truest thing that dean has ever said about him and he's RIGHT to say it. and the fact that the narrative does not bear him out on this is a TRAVESTY and one that i will resent forever
we love a badass worried dadstiel! jack might be soulless and he might be a murderer, but cas is a DAD first and foremost and he is going to PROTECT his son!
this hug between cas and jack means everything to me. even though he and dean are on better footing at this point, there's still something missing from cas' life, and that is jack. he can't be truly happy content until jack comes back to his life.
and then the reunion between jack and the winchesters! and how dean looks to CAS for confirmation! dean trusts cas' opinions! he's LOOKING at cas again! and jack is so broken and vulnerable! little murder baby that he is.
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just finished les mis... wow! i'm already sad and miss it :( but! here are some random thoughts post-finishing it:
hugo understands people and their relationships (and the interactions within said relationships) so well. this was my favorite aspect of the entire novel. i feel like i could pick apart so many different relationships and characterizations for hours
^ the above is how i could tell tolstoy really loved/admired him and was influenced by his work which was cool to see
my favorite section of the entire novel was the barricade section. he captured so much of humanity in such a vivid way within that section. also it was just gripping to read
favorite character was easily enjolras but no one is surprised. also loved jean valjean and grantaire. found myself loving cosette way more than i realized by the end of the novel
"to love or to have loved, that is enough. ask nothing further. to love is a consummation." that quote struck me more than i anticipated. i really loved how you could tell hugo geniunely loved humans and the world and how that love was a driving force throughout the entire novel. love - a love for and faith in the people, for change - is what pushes us forward and how progress occurs.
^ going off of that I thought of this quote from lady bird often: "don't you think maybe they are the same thing? love and attention?" you can tell hugo really loves paris
the sewer chapters were not as bad as people made them out to be like they're fine
#feel like pure shit just want them all back#suppose it's time for me to watch the adaptations now!#also enjoltaire girls i finally understand they make me so...#victor hugo#enjolras#grantaire#jean valjean#cosette#les mis#les miserables#currently reading
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I’m having the start of a thought before my coffee so it may be half-cracked (and it’s definitely underdeveloped), but I’m thinking about Armand’s relationships with women and how they could be categorized as being more maternal/paternal overall as opposed to sexual/sensual (by the vampire definition here).
We know Andrei/Amadeo/Armand loved his mother dearly. He treasured the egg she gave him and kept it in his sarcophagus in Venice. Even years later he tells us that during his cult years, he would wonder what became of it (it was all he had left of his mom, guys!). Not to mention what the vision of his mother symbolizes to him when he hallucinates in the in-between of life and death during his suicide attempt. Forget everyone else, five centuries later and his parents are what Armand sees as he’s “dying.”
I'll start off with Bianca. The obvious aside, she’s a very nurturing and caregiving presence in his life as a mortal. She's really the only one he can talk to about his frustrations and anxieties regarding Marius, and he seeks her out often for comfort and advice. In a much more equal and healthy way, I believe she was a lot of things to Amadeo at a time when he needed it (not entirely unlike Marius).
In Santino's cult and then the Parisian coven, Allesandra is shown as having quite a lot of tenderness for Armand. She tries to comfort him when he's absolutely hysterical in the aftermath of Riccardo, which Santino admonishes her for; suggesting to me that wasn't standard procedure in the CoD indoctrination/initiation process. Later, she comes to Armand whenever he has nightmares and warns him, "You dream the sad dreams, the dreams that precede madness." She also gives him his final and lasting name: Armand.
Eleni, we know considerably less about since she's not mentioned TVA (rude), and I'm not sure if she belongs here, but I'll spare my girl a couple sentences anyway. She survives the destruction of the Parisian coven, and becomes one of the founding members of the theatre. Her correspondence to Lestat indicates she has a good level of insight on Armand's emotional state, particularly when she says re: Nicolas - "But we do love him. And Our Oldest Friend, in particular, bears him great affection."
Moving on to Pandora. What I wouldn't have done to see more of them together! The two greatest loves of Marius's life, with the Emotional Damage to show for it. One of my favorite parts in the TVA is when Pandora gently reminds Armand that she pre-dates Christianity, and my boy is stunned as if it never once occurred to him in his 500 years of life (and she elaborates on this a bit in her book, "What possessed him?"). She's shown to be extremely affected when Armand is breaking down on Marius after finding out he turned Benji and Sybelle. Tolstoy said it, “[…] every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Yikes!
Which brings me to my last lady... Sybelle! While Armand is very clearly the physical protector and financial provider here (read: sugar daddy), Sybelle offers him a lot in terms of unconditional love and affection. Armand himself notes that their relationship greatly differs from the one he has with Benji, and there's emphasis on them pulling him out of his "depressive episodes," overall acting like his emotional caregivers/safety buddies (I can't think of a better way to put it right now).
Bonus: Armand HATES Gabrielle. And I think it’s for the same reason Anne said she hates Gabrielle — she’s a terrible mother.
#i may have started off with a thought & ended on a tangent#armand’s mommy issues#i joke to make myself feel better#now that that’s off my chest i can start my day lol#hekate rambles#mildly meta#tva#vc
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
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Hi! You post a lot about musicals i know nothing about and I want to get to know more musicals. What are four faves for you that arent the "classical" musicals like les mis or phantom? Would you mind describing what it is that you love about them as well?
Hi there! I'm sorry it has taken me a while to get back to you, I wanted to make sure I was able to give a good answer.
I automatically excluded all Disney shows and musicals with a movie musical adaptation, but if I still managed to list one you already know, please please tell me, I'm happy to add another one.
1. Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
This electro-pop opera is based on a slice of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. It's sung-through and usually staged immersively, with actor-musicians singing and dancing everywhere in the auditorium and sometimes interacting with audience members. This show rewired my brain. It makes you want to sing and laugh and dance and cry. Trailer
2. Come From Away
This one-act musical is based on true events after 9/11. Dozens of planes are diverted after being refused entry to the US following the terrorist attacks, and this is the story of Gander, a small town in Newfoundland, Canada, and the thousands of "plane people" who got stranded there. It's a story of human compassion that doesn't ignore the harsh realities of fear and prejudice. The music is amazing, and it's a true ensemble piece. Trailer
3. Mozart l'Opéra Rock
This is a French rock opera inspired by the life of Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (definitely not a biopic though). It features some classic elements that work really well with the rock sound, and it's just bop after bop. Mozart is hyper (as my friend so aptly described him), and the entire vibe of this show is excellent, so fun. A huge stage and a huge ensemble. Trailer
4. & Juliet
A jukebox musical featuring dozens of very well-known pop songs! "Shakespeare" and his wife Anne are rewriting the ending of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet with a focus on Juliet's story as we go along. You're in for an amazing time with this cleverly written musical, flashy set and diverse cast. Trailer
5. The Last Trial
This is a Russian musical adaptation of one of the Dragonlance fantasy novels. It's sung through with very catchy songs and stunning choreography. Watch the protagonist make the worst possible life choices while spending lots of time on the floor, and discover your inner Crysania who desperately tries to fix him. There's an evil dragon lady, a devoted brother, a lil gremlin elf, and the loveliest kindest bartender ever. Trailer
I think this turned to be a good mix! If you already know one or more of these though, I can easily find other recs; and if these aren't really your thing, I'm happy to go into a completely different direction.
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The wonderful @ladyausten tagged me to post 23 books I'm looking forward to reading in 2023. Thank you, sweets!
1. Bones and all - deangelis
2. A certain hunger - summers
3. Warm bodies - Marion
4. My sister, the serial killer - braithwaite
5. My heart is a chainsaw - jones
6. Final girls support group - Hendrix
7. The deep - cutter
8. A monster calls - ness
9. Crescent City part 2 - Maas
10. Hearts we sold - Lloyd Jones
11. Lotr trilogy - tolkein
12. Discovery of witches series - harkness
13. Narnia series - lewis
14. Dark matter - crouch
15. Upgrade - crouch
16. Recrusion - crouch
17. All systems red - wells
18. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
19. Madame Bovary - Flaubert (reread)
20. Tulip fever - moggach (reread)
21. Lady Chatterley's lover - Lawrence
22. Therese raquin - Zola
23. Almond - won-pyung
I tag whoever wants to play! Xx
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Anna Karenina in art: Portrait of a Young Lady by A. M. Koselov (1885) / Portrait of an Unknown Woman by I. N. Kramskoy (1883).
After years of holding out, I'm finally reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina... and I adore it. The portrayals of Anna Karenina in modern media, however, often stray greatly from Tolstoy's original descriptions. So I thought I would upload some contemporary paintings that alleged portrayed Anna herself!
On the appearance of Anna Karenina, Tolstoy wrote: "Vronsky . . . felt he must glance at her once more; not that she was very beautiful, not on account of the elegance and modest grace which were apparent in her whole figure, but because in the expression of her charming face, as she passed close by him, there was something peculiarly caressing and soft. As he looked round, she too turned her head. Her shining gray eyes, that looked dark from the thick lashes, rested with friendly attention on his face, as though she were recognizing him, and then promptly turned away to the passing crowd, as though seeking someone. In that brief look Vronsky had time to notice the suppressed eagerness which played over her face, and flitted between the brilliant eyes and the faint smile that curved her red lips." Later, at the fateful ball, "Anna was . . . in a black, low-cut, velvet gown, showing her full throat and shoulders, that looked as though carved in old ivory, and her rounded arms, with tiny, slender wrists. The whole gown was trimmed with Venetian guipure. On her head, among her black hair—her own, with no false additions—was a little wreath of pansies, and a bouquet of the same in the black ribbon of her sash among white lace. Her coiffure was not striking. All that was noticeable was the little wilful tendrils of her curly hair that would always break free about her neck and temples. Round her well-cut, strong neck was a thread of pearls. [Her] black dress, with its sumptuous lace, was not noticeable on her; it was only the frame, and all that was seen was she—simple, natural, elegant, and at the same time gay and eager."
Kramskoy's painting is the more famous of the two. It has been used as the cover in edition upon edition of Anna Karenina. Kramskoy's Anna, dressed in black velvet with an ostentatious feathered hat, is far from the gentle grace of Koselov's subject. She seems to be almost glaring at the viewer. And, in fact, when it was first exhibited "a number of critics . . . condemned what they saw as a depiction of a haughty and immoral woman." The identity of the woman was never revealed, with Kramskoy cryptically writing, "[It] is not known who this woman is. Is she decent, or does she sell herself? But within her is an entire epoch." (Quotes from here.)
About Koselov's Portrait of a Young Lady (or so-called Anna Karenina), much less information is available. Here the color scheme is reversed: Anna appears illuminated, in bright, pinkish fabric, and seems to be rising angelic from the dark background. At a stark contrast from Kramskoy's proud beauty, Koselov's Anna seems motherly, maidenly, tender, even noble. Her expression is unassuming but composed; her gray eyes appear dark and sombre on first inspection and then light and heavenly at second glance.
These works were painted just two years apart, but the clothes of the two women look quite different. I wonder whether Kramskoy intentionally painted his Anna in slightly out-of-date (natural form) fashion? Or perhaps I'm reading too much into it.
Hope you enjoyed this little essay! I know it's so different from what I usually posted but I'm a bit obsessed with Anna Karenina just now :)
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Not boring in the slightest I would love to hear more about your book collection!! What are some of your favourites from each genre? 🖤
Hello! First of all, that's so sweet of you to say, thanks a lot! 💜 Going from top to bottom, my favourites
— From the "Medieval"/gothic collection (that i haven't read that much of yet tbh):
· "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott. It's very witty at times + I got some nice vocabulary and cultural references from the medieval setting out of it.
· "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. Liked it mostly for making me re-think the whole morale of the "Maleficent" films (they're the only thing I talk about ever, sorry for somehow bringing it even here). I mean the whole underlying idea that descendants should pay for their ancestors' wrongs if they themselves escaped punishment. Realising that for many medieval people that kind of retribution might've been considered just and right put lot of things in an interesting perspective for me!
· "Fair Margaret" by Sir Henry Rider Haggard. I'm reading it rn and enjoying the characters and the plot so far, although I sometimes wish the author wouldn't just tell what the characters are like since I can already tell it from their speech and actions, hah.
· I also have a book of Celtic myths which I also enjoy a lot despite never remembering a single plot or name.
— From foreign classics:
· "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux. It was the first book I really enjoyed after a long period of not being able to bring myself to read, so it's special to me + I really liked the Persian, it's insane that he's not in the musical??
· "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontё. My #1 baby my favourite lady. I've read it a few times and every time I hate Mr Rochester more and love Jane more as well.
— From foreign modern/contemporary literature:
· "Flush" by Virginia Woolf. It's the only work of hers I've read so far, but I remember being in awe of just how colourful and almost tasty the descriptions are. And it's a very touching tale as well.
· "Martin Eden" by Jack London. *in keke palmer's voice* sorry to this man
· "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl. A really well-done novel provided the author's intent was to make me absolutely fucking despise the main characters from the very first page. I think it was, so kudos to her.
— From Russian literature:
· "Oblomov" by Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov. Somehow is in Russian school curriculum and still underrated. I guess people dislike the main character too much to enjoy it; not me, though! I only hate Ilya Oblomov because he reminds me of myself too fucking much and this whole novel is dragging me and putting me in existential dread!
· Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov's poetry of which I have three books. I am a Lermontov girlie it's true it's true. I think he is quite underrated internationally (that is to say, I wish he was as well-known in the world as Tolstoy or Dostoyevskiy). He is romantism at its finest.
— From Circassian literature (that I also hardly read anything from because most of what I have is in Circassian and I'm not nearly as fluent):
· "The Millstones" by Isaac Mashbash. A historical novel about the time preceeding the Russo-Circassian war and the wartime itself. It was a difficult yet interesting read. I'm thinking of maybe re-reading it soon because it seems only fitting, considering what's happening right now has a lot of resemblance to what happens in the novel.
I think that's it! Sorry if it's too long! Again, thanks for asking!
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ACCUMULATED TYPINGS
These are people/characters (other than the 200 people from my dreams), who I've typed personally, or I've seen typed somewhere else, and I agree with the typing. To agree with a typing, the person had to type the same using my methodology as outlined in my Typing In Practice Posts.
If I actually know, or can be fairly certain of, a person's DISC and SOJT type, I will put it after their name in parenthesis. If there's a Typing In Practice post for this person, the number will also appear after their name in parenthesis
ESTJ
Astrippus (&)
Diana Ross (#11)
Lindsay Johnson/LiJo (#2)
Madonna (#12) (D/C [S] slot 21) (Te-s/Se-f)
Napoleon (&)
Paul from Tarsus in the Bible
ESTP
Adele (#13)
"Eminem " persona
Göthe (&)
"Harry Potter "
Jennifer Lopez ( #16 )(D=I [-], not on wheel)(Se T>F)
Laban in the Bible
ENTJ
C S Joseph (#17)
Donald Trump
"Darth Vader"
Lenin (&)
King Solomon in the Bible
ENTP
Ben Vasserlan (#14)
Chris from "Asura Psych" (#17)
Joshua in the Bible
Socrates (&)
Taylor Swift (#6) (D/I [S] slot 24)(Ne T>F)
ESFJ
Ariana Grande
Barnabas in the Bible
Beyonce Knowles
Bill Clinton (F-s E>I)
Doctor Mike
Elton John
"Lady Gaga" persona
Marshall Mathers (#10)(I/S/D slot 47)(Fe S>N)
Mary Wilson-Supremes (#11)(I=S)(F-s E>I)
Ronald Regan
ESFP
Aaron the Priest in the Bible
Alecia Moore/P!nk (#9)(I [S][C] slot 8)(Fe-s short dom/long aux)
Florence Ballard-Supremes (#11)
Jack from Jacksepticeye YouTube channel (#19)
Kurt Cobain-Nirvana (#18)
Michael Hutchence-INXS (#18)
Miley Cyrus (#4)
Pushkin (&)
Robin Williams/comedian
ENFJ
Joseph Göbbels (Hitler's media manager)
Kristin from "Dear Kristin" (#5)(I/D [S] Slot 26)(Fe-n/Ne-t)
Rebekah in the Bible
Simon Peter in the Bible
Tolstoy (&)
ENFP
Erik Thor (#7)(I [C][D] Slot 105)(Ne F>T)
Frank James
Ghazali (&)
Hans Christian Andersen (&)
King David in the Bible
Michael Jackson (#3)
Oscar Wilde
Prince Rogers Nelson
ISTJ
Jacob in the Bible
Plato (&)
St. Augustine (&) (FP to TJ in transit)
ISTP
Epicurus (&)
John son of Zebedee in the Bible
Moses in the Bible
INTJ
Blaise Pascal (&)
Einstein (&)
Elijah in the Bible
George W Bush
Jung
INTP
Lao Tsu (&)
Nietzsche
ISFJ
Akhmatova (&)
Isaac in the Bible
ISFP
Alicia Argello-Cook/Alicia Keys (#15) (S/D [C], slot 132) (S-f I>E)
Nehemiah in the Bible
Stefani Germanotta (#8)
INFJ
Adolf Hitler
Isabel Myers-MBTI inventor
INFP
Abraham in the Bible
Rousseau (&)
This is all I have for now. I will add and edit as I get more. (*) means I have typed the person as such, using my method. I just haven't written the Typing In Practice post for that person yet 🙃
(&) is a new symbol I'm adding to represent mass typings from "The Syntax of Love " by Afansayev. There will be so many, I'm not going to do Typing In Practice Posts for them, but I will place the people I was successfully able to type from that book, in SOJT, to this list
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supernatural s15e11 the gamblers (teleplay: meredith glynn, story: meredith glynn, davy perez)
so had an infuriating ep, a light (in theory) funny ep, so what's up with this possible alaska excursion. recap was full of a whole mess of things including some random class of angels i forget 2 seconds after hearing it
are they truly driving to alaska
reminds me of this tiktok i saw today of a guy from the uk who lives in the us now and had his mind obliterated when he just realized how close alaska is to russia
but wait, garth says road between barrow and kotzebue, which is nowhere near each other. kotzebue is ....
ok so driving 3800 miles - on a budget, as sam reminds dean - in their like... i'll be generous and say 12mpg impala. that's 316 gallons of fuel, one way. we'll say $3/gal? $950 gas one-way? sounds like any way you slice it, that's a lot of money
lol nic, please, drop it. it's just picking alaska is so wacky because it's so so far away from the rest of the US and it's so big and so sparsely populated
DEAN
What can we get for, uh, $4.60?
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Um, a slice of pie and a cup of coffee?
DEAN
Two forks?
SAM
A-A pool hall that makes you lucky or might kill you? I mean, it sounds like a demon or a witch or…
DEAN
Or it could be awesome. It’s pool. The- the- the game of champions, kings. My game. Hell, our game. How many honest-to-goodness great memories do we have hustling pool?
SAM
Yeah, because we had to. To eat.
DEAN
Okay, well, my point is, that if pool is the way we get our mojo back, then maybe we ain’t as screwed as thought.
but how good are they at pool under the chuck whammy.
day 2, still boggling over driving to alaska. also this whole thing reminds me of the poker playing for years thing from whatever, 5x07 let's get into it
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Man, I’ve been slinging pool cues since before you were born.
SAM
What? When you were four? Really? What, between nap time and snack?
seen gifs of that one, classic. even knowing it was coming, made me laugh. sam's face, perfect
DEAN
Look, we barely made it out of that monster fight club, okay? We need this. And you know it. Now, look, you’re better than me at pretty much everything, okay? That’s okay. I’m not mad. I’m proud. But I can wipe the floor with you when it comes to pool.
that's very sweet. i will take it
i don't even know what's going on with this little heart-eating jack sidequest for cas
Grigori were watcher angels, some of the first placed on Earth to watch and protect humanity. They were an elite unit that turned rogue and were thought to have been wiped out. However, a handful survived and hid on Earth, feeding off of human souls.
literally only appear in 2 episodes, this one and 10x20 - one thing i really got tired of (which i also understand because the show went on for so long with so many episodes) is just piling on random lore and creatures and weapons and devices and secret societies, etc.
having the pool playing sucking away luck from nice rando humans as opposed to the witch or whatever is kind of an interesting twist. a moral quandary!
the roman goddess of luck, ok. these are the episodes i watch and almost immediately forget :p
FORTUNA
When I play someone, I get a read on them. And you… you’re just a beach read. Sexy, mm, but skimmable.
DEAN
Beach read? Lady, I’m Tolstoy.
cringe
JACK
Fair? The last one I killed was pretending to be a doctor. Feeding on the souls of humans he was supposed to heal. You do it, too. Only you like children.
KABAIEL
Who told you that?
JACK
Death.
so billie yanked him out of the empty to go kill some bad guys? okayyy??? and eating the hearts because...??? laughed out loud when cas popped up to have a sword fight?? with the angel blade
i was on board with jack and my 3 dads and i feel like this should be heartwarming but i'm just 😐
dunno why this remote alaskan bar has jazz music as a theme but whatever. cheaper than licensed music :p (christopher lennertz and philip white on music this ep)
FORTUNA
When you apes first climbed down from the trees, you didn’t pray to him. You prayed to the… the sun, the womb, the rain, and the stars. Well, at first, the creator was furious. How dare you not recognize his beneficence? But soon enough, he birthed us… Ra, Anu, Hera, Mixcoatl, all the rest.
DEAN
Why?
FORTUNA
Why? [scoffs] Why?
To take the blame. Bad harvest? Stillborn child? Our bad. Not his. Plus, we made for epic stories. But his ego could only handle that for so long. Now he’s happy to behind whatever religion has the best syndication deal. While we survive on scraps in the wilderness.
feels like they're trying to finally wedge in an explanation to how the christian god is The god, by way of like oh no, he's just some generic creator and he's actually responsible for everything in all religions which just makes my head hurt if i think about it too long
FORTUNA
You little minx. You got me talking. You’re good.
SAM
I learned from my brother.
there is a lot of cheesy dialogue this episode, i dunno what's going on
the people matter to me. to us. i cannot take this seriously :p
EVIE
Because of you. She said she thought your kind had gone extinct.
SAM
Our kind?
EVIE
Heroes.
loll. whyyy. am i just being an ass again? so cheesy!
EVIE
And, uh, she gave me a message. She said, “Don’t play his game. Make him play yours.”
okily dokily. whatever that means
awkwarrrd
sweet and weird, respectively
JACK
Because if I don’t stay hidden, if I use my powers, my grandfather… he’ll know I’m back, and he’ll try and kill me… again. He’s afraid of me. And that’s why we had to wait.
CAS
Billie kept him hidden in the Empty until Chuck went off world.
JACK
She let me out when it was safe.
DEAN
Safe to what? Eat a bunch of angel hearts?
JACK
Safe to do what I have to. The hearts, they were just the beginning. They made me strong, but I-I’m not strong enough. I… If I do exactly what she says, if I follow her plan, then I’ll get stronger and… I’ll be able to kill God.
LOL ok, sure. to say this season has lost me would be an understatement. i know when i'm like this i'm gonna pick at every little thing, where i let things slide a bit more when i'm fully engaged. i regularly complain about the main plots but usually i'm still here for the character beats, but i'm having a hard time staying connected with even that at the moment
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Tash Hearts Tolstoy, A Marvellous Light, Transmogrify! 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic, The Secret History, Black Water Sister, Spell Bound (F T Lukens), Hench (Natalie Zina Walschots), The Foxhole Court series, Six of Crows duology, Legends and Lattes, She Drives Me Crazy, The Atlas Six, These Violent Delights (Micah Nemerever), The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry, Elatsoe, The Charm Offensive, In Deeper Waters, The Girls I've Been, Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses, Between Perfect and Real, Kemosha of the Caribbean, Tarnished are the Stars, Iron Widow, Golden Boys (Phil Stamper), Vespertine, Malibu Rising, The Henna Wars, Annie on My Mind, I'm Afraid of Men, The Sky Blues, The Gilded Wolves trilogy, That Inevitable Victorian Thing, Girls of Paper and Fire, This is How You Lose the Time War, Daja's Book, If We Were Villains, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Ramona Blue, The Fascinators, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, On a Sunbeam, Pet (Akwaeke Emezi), Dread Nation, The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass, Finding Home series by Hari Conner, The Sea in You, Love Letters by Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
sorry that is just so many and I checked your blog to see if there were any repeats but I used the search function and we all know how awful that can be so there may be some you already have.
Hey there! Just glancing through this list, there are a number that are already on the masterlist: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15zgZxkR3Uxb5qfP9o8vO2EkeyAdPTWsifYGNmMfynBA/edit?usp=sharing
I need to have both the title and author for every book. For anything more than a couple books, each title/author needs to be separated onto its own line. A block of text like this is pretty much impossible for me to keep my place in as I'm jumping around between the different tabs I need to have open to queue posts.
If you'd like to resubmit these following the guidelines laid out in the pinned post, I'd be happy to get them into the queue.
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tagged by @piastrodium ive been dragged into it i guess
star sign:
i'm a libra! weird cusp moment where i can be a libra or a scorpio but my sun's in libra and i act like a scorpio
favorite holiday:
jesus im a big halloween fan i guess? i just like the Vibes. spooky season my love. also a huge holi fan
last meal:
made myself a shirley temple and a burrito bowl it was great
current favorite musician:
this is such a hard question i rlly don't have an answer At All. ive been really into r&b and soft sad music recently tho. maybe RENAO? i like RENAO
last music listened to:
west savannah - isaiah rashad & SZA
last movie watched:
laapataa ladies !!
last tv show watched:
quiet on set
last book/fic finished:
haven't read fic in a while...last full book i read was either arudhati roy's the god of small things or cavar's failure to comply (i read it as an arc its so good omg omg)
last book/fic abandoned:
oh fuck dude. i only got about halfway thru tolstoy's war & peace before i shelved it. will pick it up sometime
current read:
re-reading haruki murakami's norwegian wood! he's my boyfriend's fav author so i thought id give him a try :)
last thing researched for art/hyperfixation:
lots of stuff on blood spatters post murder. i needed it for a criminology project i'm doing
favorite online fandom memory:
when @piastrodium & i just yap about f1. maybe when i told her abt lewis hamilton moving to ferrari and she panicked. that was funny
favorite old fandom you wish would drag you back in:
kpop! i miss being delulu abt album drops etc it was so fun
favorite thing you enjoy that never had an active or big ‘fandom’ but you wish it did:
GUYS. everyone shut up while i yap about star trek. or maybe desi lit? there's honestly a lot of stuff. im big into murder/law shows too so law school (2021), castle, white collar, etc OH ALSO SPEECH AND DEBATE. PLEASE MORE
tempting project you’re trying to rein in/don’t have time for:
well i'm working on my marathi to spanish poetry book translation rn, i have my criminology project & my exosome paper & my lit mags & my poetry interview/podcast stuff. i guess i really want to do like an f1 blog type thing maybe
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24 reads in 24
Thank you @zwiazdziarka for the tag !
A bit late of an answer but here we go :)
Honestly, hopefully I'll read more than 24 as I usually do at least one a week but I'm already falling behind haha
These are all books that I have bought (or received with my monthly secret subscription) and haven't gotten around reading yet.
Most are in English but some are in French and one is in Serbian.
1 - Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare
2 - Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
3 - Lady Susan & Other Works by Jane Austen
4 - Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
5 - Sherlock Holmes & Count Dracula by Christian Klaver
6 - What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
7 - Sorcery Of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
8 - Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers by Jules Verne
9 - Selling Hitler by Robert Harris
10 - Noz by Vuk Draskovic
11 - Manchette - Tardi L'intégrale
12 - Monica's Story by Andrew Morton
13 - A day At Versailles by Yves Carlier
14 - War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
15 - The Final Sacrament by James Forrester
16 - Sherlock Holmes - 24 classic short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
17 - Le Tour Du Monde En 80 Jours by Jules Verne
18 - A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
19 - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
20 - Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
21 - Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
22 - A reread of the Shadowhunters series (so around 20 books I guess, I'm cheating)
23 - Heartstopper 5 by Alice Oseman
24 - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
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