#lit talks | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

lit-in-thy-heart · 9 months

Text

been trying out a new writing technique recently and it's called chilling tf out and reminding myself that fic is written for fun.

#making a little joke but also being genuinely serious #with my merwaincelot wip i've embraced having little overviews in brackets for what i want to happen #but idk how to write it just yet #if i'm feeling stuck or bored #and if i'm getting tired or the idea of writing an ending is getting overwhelming then i just call it a day and do something else #and yeah it's taking longer to write things (perhaps gone are the days when i wrote and posted a fic in the same night)#but it's working wonders with my brain #and it's amazing how as soon as i relax i get hit with several new ideas #just trying to adjust my thinking in that projects over a long period of time are not something to worry about #like i'm also planning a knitting project that i'll be doing well into september #(mainly bc yarn is expensive and my needs are hella specific)#but that's okay!#not everything has to be done and dusted immediately!#i'm glad i took a break from writing and i think it did do me good but damn i'm happy to be back #and enjoy still learning how to get even more out of my hobby #but anyway i'm just feeling a lil proud of myself today so #lit talks #personal

112 notes · View notes

lostlitany · 2 years

Text

Context: scrolling through tumblr with my boyfriend

Beta - National Coming Out day is in October!

Me - Yeah

Beta - Incredible, October really is the gayest month of the year.

Me - For sure!

Beta - Some might think it’s pride month but no. It’s Halloween

So- Shoutout to Halloween. The uh… gayest month of the year.

And to think, this bitch used to hate Halloween 2 years ago. You’re fucking welcome loser

#real life things #beta #he’s a damn moron #and I adore him #he’s not gonna live this one down #from least favorite holiday #to gayest month #Halloween got one hell of a promotion #muahhahaha #lit talks #enjoy your time zone #drink some water #stretch your limbs #rest your eyes

3 notes · View notes

prettyysavagee · 7 days

Text

Happy 4/20 tumblr 💚

1K notes · View notes

thoughtkick · 5 months

Quote

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.

Zen Shin Talks

1K notes · View notes

jackxo · 27 days

Text

𝙻𝚎𝚝’𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗 🌧️

987 notes · View notes

soracities · 8 months

Text

Clarice Lispector, Água Viva | Ethel Cain, "A House in Nebraska"

#nobody talk to me #lit #quotes #quote compilation #clarice lispector #ethel cain #dolor ante lucem #m #x

2K notes · View notes

quotefeeling · 9 months

Quote

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.

Zen Shin Talks

3K notes · View notes

seagreenstardust · 2 months

Text

“When toxic behavior is portrayed as romantic, it’s problematic. When problematic behavior is portrayed as a character flaw for a character to work through, it’s good storytelling.”

Katsuki Bakugou, my friends.

His behavior was problematic but never once portrayed as romantic at the same time. Katsuki said and did awful abusive things, and he also chose to be better when he was given the chance. If you’re still hung up on chapter 1 Katsuki now then I don’t think you’ve been reading the same story I have.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m not shipping Izuku with an irredeemable abuser. I’m shipping him with his most important person. His narrative foil. His childhood friend who made awful mistakes and then made it right when he saw he was wrong. The person Izuku looks up to and strives to emulate, despite their past struggles.

Bakudeku is so good because of how flawed these boys are, and how hard they’ve worked to get over it, and how much they matter to each other after it all

#perfect stories about perfect people who never do anything wrong are usually boring #stories about growth and mistakes and redemption and forgiveness and progress are lit #bkdk #bakudeku #the quote is from cinema therapy on YouTube btw #love them so much #they look at media and talk about what is and isn’t good from a real life human perspective #and boy did this quote slap me in the face #anyway this is my thought literally any time anyone says something about shipping Izuku with his abuser #if he was still being abused then I get it #but he’s not #and saying he needs protection from Katsuki is honestly doing his character dirty #and this is not to say that every situation with an abuser and a victim should turn out romantic #obviously not #the world is not black and white and neither are people #sometimes you have to get yourself out and never look back and that is valid and healthy #but sometimes you’re talking about two boys in a manga who literally cannot stop thinking about how good and incredible the other is #bro I get it #surface level chapter/episode 1 Katsuki is literally the worst #but his glow up has been literally meteoric

415 notes · View notes

panthermouthh · 3 months

Text

What could go wrong

#Victor Frankenstein #Frankenstein #the creature #frankenstein 1931 #gothic art #gothic literature #mary shelley #gothic lit #not sure if I really like this but since finishing the book again I have even More stuff I want to do #but that’ll take time and planning #so here ya go <33 #I’m gonna check out that musical people keep talking about in the tags lol #text from the original 1931 movie #my art

475 notes · View notes

fluffypotatey · 11 months

Text

just a quick thing bc it bothers me and i wanna get this off my chest

*pulls down presentation screen*

yes, both Miguel O’Hara and the Spot are antagonists to Miles

how-ever,

Miguel is an antagonist and a hero while the Spot is an antagonist and villain

that is all, thank you

#atsv #atsv spoilers #spiderman atsv #across the spiderverse #miguel o'hara #spiderman 2099 #the spot #miles morales #this has been fluffy’s mini lecture about literary narrative terms #Antagonist and villain are NOT the same thing #can they be? yes but that is all dependent on the narrative and who the protagonist is #Protagonists and heroes are NOT the same thing #Can they be? Yes but like with antagonists it is all dependent on the perspective of the narrative #we are USED to seeing protagonists be heroes because many stories are in the PERSPECTIVE of heroes not villains #thank you for coming to me Ted talk #if you disagree with me go take it up with your lit teacher

1K notes · View notes

lit-in-thy-heart · 9 months

Text

does...does merlin give arthur a shirt belonging to lancelot in 2x02? we never see merlin in a shirt of any colour other than red, blue or purple (aside from when he's disguised) and the shirt he gives arthur looks remarkably similar to the one (or ones, considering his first shirt would have been covered in his own blood, unless merlin worked a little magic with the stain) worn by lancelot in 1x05...

[ID: two screenshots from series 2, episode 2 of BBC Merlin. In the first, Arthur has put on a blueish grey shirt given to him by Merlin. It had a relatively high collar and is low-cut, the strings of the shirt loosely threaded through the eyelets. Two lines of stitching run parallel around the opening of the shirt. In the second, Arthur is sitting down in Gwen’s house. The cuffs of the shirt, which looks more grey than blue, end at his wrists and another line of stitching is visible at the base of the shirt's opening, creating a rectangular panel on the front of the shirt. End ID.]

[ID: two screenshots of Lancelot and Merlin from series 1, episode 5. In the first, Lancelot wears a blueish grey shirt with the sleeves rolled up to just below his elbows as he and Merlin watch Arthur training knights. It has a high collar and a rectangular panel of stitching around the low-cut opening. Lancelot wears the same shirt in the second screenshot, where he and Merlin walk through the covered walkways of the castle, but it appears more grey in the light. End ID.]

#you can't stop me merlin kept one of lancelot's shirts (or lancelot gave him one) after he left it's canon now #OR merlin did work some magic on the bloodstain and maybe mended the probable tear #went to give it back to lancelot #and lance just smiled and said no you keep it #AND HE DID #and maybe the smell arthur notices is the natural residue of merlin's magic but that really is a headcanon #it probably just is coincidence and reusing things in the costume department #but this makes me feel fuzzy #merlin #lancelot #arthur #mercelot #bbc merlin #merlin headcanons #lit talks

133 notes · View notes

lostlitany · 2 years

Text

I’ve been meaning to redraw my Bakusquad dress series since I never finished it, you know the one-

And I’ve been trying to do more Kofi and patreon stuff to get people more willingly interested in my art and crap- but I just had an idea about 15 minutes ago and I need decent opinions so I’ve come to the best platform for that-

Bakusquad Dress Series- as stickers

Thoughts???

#lit talks #seriously I should shut up #but beta has been gone all week #and I need to talk to someone #so you guys it is #lit art

4 notes · View notes

sunsetcurveauto · 7 months

Text

Tell me about the dream where we pull bodies out of the lake / and dress them in warm clothes again.

bbc merlin: diamond of the day: part 2 // angels in america, tony kushner // kokomo, victoria hannan // bbc merlin: behind the scenes // the ghost on the shore, lord huron // leaving port, ingeborg bachmann (tr. mark anderson) // scheherazade, richard siken

567 notes · View notes

malinaa · 5 months

Text

idk if it's been talked about before but suzanne collins never misses a BEAT when it came to names, specifically coriolanus snow and dr volumnia gaul. just from their first names alone you can already guess what type of role might play between them (well... if you've read shakespeare's coriolanus that is. i do recommend it btw).

a lot of bits were taken from shakespeare's play for tbosas like the motif with scars / wounds / the body as being a microcosm of the nation, the common people fighting up against the government, coriolanus' hatred of the common people wanting to be "equal" to him, the rebel arc etc etc but i'm soooo so so interested in the fact that dr gaul was named volumnia and coriolanus is coriolanus because in the play, coriolanus' mother's name is volumnia!

volumnia is arguably the only female character in the play that has any depth (i am so sorry virgilia). his mother shapes her son into the warrior he is. she reminds him at every turn that he is nothing more than a weapon to be wielded. in fact, she's the one who gets her son to come back from his "revolt" against rome which ultimately lead to his demise. this parallels tbosas in the same way because dr gaul took coriolanus and molded him into the villain you would see in thg trilogy. she brought him back from d12 and then brought about the end of his humanity (a death, so to speak—at the end of the book he said something similar to this to try to save himself from lucy gray's suspicions but he was right because he did kill a part of himself to be where he is)! coriolanus snow's mother is present but off-page. her ghost haunts him, comforts him, but the 'mother' figure is the ever-present, all-knowing dr gaul.

UGH! like with just their names you could map out where they end up at the end of the story and that's literally insane. like the caliber of writing is literally next to none fr

#lit #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #volumnia gaul #meta #text #tais toi lys #thgpost #yet again the mf that fixates on names and shakespeare talks about names and shakespeare what can i say i'm predictable #ALSOOOOOOO. shakespeare's coriolanus' name isn't even coriolanus. it's caius martius but it's only when he helped deafeat corioles that he #earns the name coriolanus. it's a neat parallel that coriolanus didn't really “earn” the snow name until he became a villain.#anyway i'm just spitballing #*

427 notes · View notes

the-modern-typewriter · 13 days

Note

can you rec us some books with very pretty prose?

Beautiful writing style is, of course, always in the eye of the reader. However, these are some books where I really appreciated the prose style because it was either pretty or in some way really compelling/interesting to me in some way:

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

A Portable Shelter/Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Bunny by Mona Awad

(These are all from my 'beautiful writing style' shelf on Goodreads. However, I have omitted any where I can't remember what happens in the book anymore or if I didn't love the book!)

#book recs #book talk #book #books #reading #reading lit #book list #book recommendation #book recommendations

173 notes · View notes

soracities · 21 hours

Text

Wisława Szymborska, “Children of Our Age”, View with a Grain of Sand (trans. Stanisław Barańczak & Clare Cavanagh)

#either way you're talking politics #quotes #poems #poetry #wislawa szymborska #children of our age #view with a grain of sand #of war and violence #typography #id included #reading #polish lit #m #x

357 notes · View notes