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abybweisse · 10 months

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It just dawned on me that the snake, Jonathan, is probably named after the satirist, Jonathan Swift.

Just like Snake has an Emily and a Brontë, he probably has a Jonathan and a Swift....

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #snake #snake's snakes #jonathan swift #emily bronte #emily brontë #observation #thoughts #literary giants #historical reference #historical figures #jul 23 2023

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the-gt-fairy · 6 months

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Some people's g/t is about the romance, some about the friendships, and some about the experience of being that size

Me?

IT'S ABOUT THE METAPHORS

IT'S ABOUT THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS

IT'S ABOUT HOW MUCH IT WILL BREAK OR BUILD UP A CHARACTER

#look look look look look #I fucking love literary devices #I love them so much #g/t #giant/tiny #sfw g/t

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afrotumble · 11 months

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A book if necessary should be a hammer [or] a hand grenade which you detonate under a stagnant way of looking at the world.

Wole Soyinka.

#wole soyinka #books #author #african literary giant

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mattibee · 4 months

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wait I've got it next pokemon games not unova OR johto they're just gonna pull a totk and do paldea legends and you get to shove heath off a cliff into area zero yourself

#coatlythoughts #punishing him for archealogical malpractice preemptively #literary malpractice maybe? im sayin that his book can still be fiction #and me saying its all a dream is just as kooky as pokemons its all spacetime fucky wuckies #dream as in desires an wishes being manifested artificially by terastal energy #man wrote a book so good someone fell into the giant wishing well and made it real #twice. both with huge consequences

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semperardens-juli · 1 year

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"Laughter's the property of man. Live joyfully."

Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1564), Francois Rabelais from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, James Canton

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thespoonisvictory · 1 year

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lannisters in the twins tournament is such a tumblr culture moment for me, it is the ultimate litmus test of the two specific ways fandom fall on this website (adoration and projection vs fascination with the disgusting and intricate). you either think they should win the whole thing or couldn’t comprehend why people would vote for the incest twins. a perfect split.

#this is a joke and hyperbole and not about kai my mutual #the joke is that the lannister twins are undeniably the some of the most influential and Literary twins of recent media #asoiaf/got is a media giant and they are steeped in the kind of codependent and fascinating gothic grossness #paired with prestige tv that you see worshipped in the tumblr girlies who like succession the terror intricate cannibalism web weaves etc #but on the other side there is the side that is thinking of this as a Fav competition and want to vote for the sweetest most deserving pair #in a sense?#the ones you would want to be or know the most #it's about the morality and incest would instantly be Gross Bad and disqualify them #(both sides are present in every fandom and in every person and neither side is bad it's just funny to me #jaime lannister #cersei lannister #it's just such a dichotomy

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snowberry-pie · 1 year

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sorry i used to be a massive dick by the way

#kikay speaks #grits teeth and chants i was not morally reprehensible i was just 15. i was not morally reprehensible i was just fifteen. i w #saw someone like my post about how i hate lit nerds from like two years ago. i do not hate lit nerds #just had a brief moment of hating literary analysis due to seeing people being giant assholes abt it. i love themes and parallels i swear

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ravenkings · 11 months

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the thing about h.p. lovecraft is that oftentimes the writers and works that were his influences are actually superior to his own work, but it’s mostly due to his explicitly referencing and paying homage to them that i think they have anywhere near the level of readership that they have today

#poe is an obvious exception bc he's such a giant in the american literary imagination that he does not need lovecraft to boost him #this is basically about robert w. chambers's the king in yellow and a lot of arthur machen's work #and perhaps lord dunsany but i feel like people don't really read him anymore anyway #h.p. lovecraft #text

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sketching-shark · 1 year

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O you found Girl Giant and the Monkey King and nervous nebula's art! Its such a good book, a very underrated version of the great sage. ^-^

the artwork in the book is just amazing. I would stare at it for hours.

YEAH @nervous-nebula's artwork for this book is so fun & the illustrations themselves are great & while I just started the book I'm enjoying its portrayal of the Monkey King so far & am excited at the prospect of a Great Sage in a work for children who's genuinely complex, fun, frustrating, but who's very proactive with sympathetic goals. Also Thom Ngho is a pretty cool little girl who seems to be off on a great adventure of not just self-acceptance but in learning about how power both physical, social, and political should and should not be wielded!

#ask answered #girl giant and the monkey king #it was pretty cool too to get a glimpse as to how the monkey king is thought of in vietnam!#between this book and american borne chinese #you can get a glimpse as to how the monkey king is a very important literary figure for many people in the asian diaspora #to contemplate everything from heritage to the struggles of day to day living in countries often hostile to their communities

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riverofrainbows · 1 year

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I told my father once about wanting to write a book, and showed him the first scene i had written, and he said it was good but that it lacked some sort of hook. He phrased it like "What is special about the protagonist? [Insert several examples about media he knew i read/watched even if he had only vague knowledge of them, amongst those 'You know in lord of the rings where he is the boy that lives with the gnomes']"

And I've been thinking about being extraordinary and another book i started and then put aside today because if exactly this topic, and i decided just now that when I'm writing that book, i will write about someone completely ordinary.

And not in a humorous exploration of the chosen one trope where just some guy stumbles through a fantasy world, even tho i like those stories, and also not in the "they themselves and everyone else thinks they are just ordinary and it seems they are but in the last few chapters it turns out that they are the secret heir to the magic throne".

"But why are they the protagonist of your book then? What will you be writing about?" you may ask. Well. What makes them special is the fact that I love them and want to give them everything they deserve.

#own post #writing #chosen one protagonist #and also not in the way those literary fiction books do it that are all depressing and melancholic about a random citizen and muse on and #on about finding beauty in the everyday while being very melancholic about it and as mentioned above depressing me #because they always give the vibe that these people are only special random citizens because the mighty author has decided to write about #them and we the readers have decided to humour them in a giant game of pretend where neither person actually cares about the protagonist #I know that someone else probably really enjoys and feels heard by these books but personally for me the lingering on the melancholical #just pulls me down #also obligatory clarification that not *all* literary fiction books fit this pattern and that someone else enjoying them is lovely for them

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nocturnal-birdie · 2 years

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Okay, so has anyone seen the trailer for Three Thousand Years of Longing? The movie looks inappropriate for GAs, so i won't link it here...But Idris Elba plays a djinn who materializes as a giant in a hotel room. So yah...yah o///o *blushes and fans self*