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I love this book to death, so here's some things I noticed <3
#hyde being short is quite possibly my favourite thing ever#this isnt me jabbing at the takes that stray from the book#just btw XD#i think thats a big reason why i love it so much is that theres a WEALTH of inspiration that can be taken from the jekyll and hyde trope#theres so much out there i love#that being said#ive been buzzing about jekyll n Hyde recently because of this game that blindsided me with a jekyll n hyde trope#its always fun seeing it out in the wild#as seldom as that is LMAO#if anyones curious though its called vampire therapist and its a character named dr drayne#very cute and very fun game 💕💕#jekyll and hyde#the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde#dr jekyll#mr Hyde#also talking about blindsided by gothic lit blorbos#saw an animated Jekyll and hyde movie at the DOLLARSTORE for 5 smackaroos#easiest 5bucks i ever spent#literally the funniest shiy ive ever seen highly recommend watching it pals#its also on youtube for free and its in that so bad its good category for me
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Spotify wrapped was dogshit boring what the hell
#this has nothing to do with the music#my shit lit#but the wrapped setup was just extra in a bad way like sis idgaf about top audiobooks or podcasts bye#“your artist clips” being a category like wtf do I need that on the dash for 😭😭😭#“want more wrapped? here’s an AI—” i don’t want more wrapped bitch I want BETTER#idec that much plssss I be going off in the tags like my life depends on it#im literally typing like this 🧍🏻♀️
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Potential December Reads
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Volume 8 by Beth Brower
Prudence and the Romantic Poet by Nina Clare
A Christmas-related book
The Cricket on the Hearth and/or The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
The Christmas Blossoms by Priscilla Smith McCaffrey
One of the American Girl books
A religious book
Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine by Pope Benedict XVI
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton
Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers Even I Can Pray by Leah Libresco
A middle-grade book
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
The Happy Prince and Other Stories Oscar Wilde
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Mandy by Julie Andrews
#monthly reading lists#books#trying a new format#because most of my categories are so vague#and i have so many things on my reading list clamoring for attention within those categories#that i need to feature them all as options without committing to any particular one#most of the options are things that were impulse purchases or library picks sitting on my reading piles#if anyone wants to campaign for a particular one (or suggest something different within one of the categories) go for it#after loving 'the warden' i saved 'barchester towers' as a december book#because i wanted to save the big book for a new month#and this would fulfill my december need for a new cozy-yet-crunchy classic#'last christmas in paris' fits for the christmas vibes and also i have a desire for epistolary fiction#emma m lion came out early!#it's a priority but also i don't want to be done with it too soon#i didn't even realize the nina clare book was coming out until a couple days before release#they're not great lit but i've found that after clunky beginnings these books turn out to have surprisingly depth and complexity#(still on a regency romance scale)#i've sometimes wondered if i might like her better than heyer because the servants are people#the dynamics may not be historically accurate but seeing the loyal servants in gaskell it's accurate enough#and it's not like heyer didn't build her own flavor of regency fantasy world so i like one that includes the lower classes#and anyway after last month's poetry escapades this premise will be extra fun
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I really wish people would stop being obtuse with their readings about things. Is it really demonizing The Thing or is it deliberately using a social perception and common tropes to frame the character in a certain light so it can deliberately subvert those things at the precise moment when it is necessary to prove that point that people are Not Like That?
#obviously not a catch all because there are definitely pieces of media that are guilty of demonizing things#but sometimes the crit I see on here and even out in the real world is just extremely shallow and it baffles me#like for example back in my drugs and addiction in film and lit class one of the guest speakers we had was like ‘I��ve never seen a good#addict in a heroic role in media and we will never see that’ and… I was sitting there like… midnight mass was only a year old#to this day I will assert that riley flynn is one of the best heroic depictions of addict ever and I will not change my mind on that#many such cases in the mike flannagan universe including danny torrance in doctor sleep as well (which mike has said was part of his own#recovery process). not to mention I would also posit crozier as the same to an extent just by the symbolism of his alcoholism as a mechanism#of empire used to supress and opress him. and I think about those and then I see so many characters everywhere that fall into the same#category. and it really baffles me how people can just. fucking miss all of that#anyways yes this is also about the previous post like girl what the fuck#I need people to learn what actual media literacy is and then also. read more media. read different media. become well-read and well-viewed#or perish by my hand
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HYUNJIN: ”been a long day, but it's okay, cause at seven you will be, be here with me”
#hyunjin#skz#stray kids#video#romantic date nights with your loverboy is the category..#thanks to his healing aura the battery of my soul gets to charge whenever i see him#im lucky we get to live and love on the same planet at the same time#even if everything around me is crumbling#a reminder of his precious existence is enough for me to build everything back up#idk i love to love him it keeps the fire of life lit within me 🫀🙇🏼♀️🩷
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Enjoying this years literary theme of gothic lit characters just being like “O how horrible I am and my life is TRAGIC oh the horrors *weeping* THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERLA MURDERS and theyre all MY FAULT oh the tragedy of my lifeee I must recount to You Dearest Reader BEWARNED”
#for reference#read frankenstein for ap lit#currently reading jekyll and hyde#the first two pages of wieland and memoirs of carwub the bioquidt are basically the same vibes yk#i havnt gotten far into it yet but im having fun!#i also read like half of don quixote which isnt entirely that#but falls into the category of protagonist being literally insane!#very fun!#like last year i JUST read like hard scifi and speculative biology#this year is turning out to be mainly classic lit about mentally ill protagonists#v
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Absolutely shocked by how many Japanese books there were at Waterstones
#especially considering the criticism from serious readers that Japanese literature can often read as too saccharine for some audiences#though I suppose we’re in the age of saccharine unseriousness#this in no way shape or form precludes the existence of Japanese lit that doesn’t fall into this category etc
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#i hate q slur discourse so im gonna vent about it here instead of commenting#but i do kind of hate how queer is used so universally as ~queer theory~ or ~queer lit~ or whatever#a) it isnt inclusive. reclamation is a complicated and personal process and its kind of unfair to hoist that on everyone#b) even when slurs are reclaimed like. it still feels weird to have them be used in the NYT#and in academia and shit#its also really intetesting be the 'reclamation' is more spatial than temporal#like at the same time my university offered queer history courses#i heard someone say 'ive never seen one of those queers. they know better than to come around here'#its not that im opposed to its reclamation or use#but it feels soooooooo disingenuous to act like reclamation is a finished process and it feels like#to have it be used to advertise shitty YA lit to me#is just an insult. y'know? and academics that go 'queer just means difference or deviation from the norm!'#instead of a word people use to enforce SPECIFIC rules about who can perform femininity and when and how#like when i hear the word i think of a) the shitty conservatives from my hometown#b) academics whose theories i either find vastly overrated or horrifically misinterpreted#or c) seattle liberals whose experience of ~queerness~ is so vastly different than mine i sometimes wonder if we speak the same language#its a word that should be reclaimed by screaming and writing it on my arms at a protest#not by like. having spotify use it as a podcast category
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Philip Hoare, Leviathan, or The Whale
#you see these inspirations. what did i say#vindication once more that moby dick is a gothic novel (among other categories) even if it doesn't follow the path of the other titans#philip hoare#herman melville#moby dick#lit tag
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Bellamy would be really good at jeopardy. Btw.
#watched the end of double jeopardy today & GOT final jeopardy#its been so long#but the categories were like arts#crafts and sin-onyms#and he'd just be so good and get things i never would fndjsk#also the historical people thing#final jeopardy was 20th century lit. hed probably have gotten that answer too#the point being hes actually really smart and holds random knowledge xo#muse: Bellamy blake#meta: Bellamy blake#it's been a minute since i posted about him. i still think about him. harper just took over my brain its not my fault
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Listening to a warriors podcasts, and man, I should reread some of that stuff and seek out some of the funky cat and/or other animal fantasy that I either couldn't get my hands on, or just missed timing and interest-wise.
I don't have any particular desire to pick up Warriors again, but I do want to read Tailchaser's Song again. I'm very curious how some of the horror in it holds up for adult me. I could never find the immediate sequel to Ratha's Child, a somewhat obscure book that I would describe as Warriors cats meets Clan of the Cave Bear. I was also very interested in them in the hypothetical and then got put off by the dubcon cat sex, which influenced my general desire to track down a copy of the next book.
And then there's stuff like the Cats of Tanglewood Forest, which I think was published about the time I stopped reading children's lit. It would have been absolute catnip for me, but I was too busy reading de Lint's adult stuff and I didn't have a library copy convenient.
#my blather#nostalgia for kid's lit and also books i that were not for children that i read as a child#also that one duology with the robots and the psychic martial arts#like warriors is wild but it is the tip of the iceburg of the specific category of cat anthro fantasy#sure its violent but no one's taxidermied body is made into a robot#and no one goes into heat and has sex they don't want#the one with the robots and the psychic martial arts is varjak paw btw#i do remember
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reblogging again because this is actually pissing me off so fucking much
like i'm not saying everyone has to like Kafka, I actually know a lot of people who didn't like the metamorphosis because they had to read it in school and the themes went over their head at the time but just because it didn't resonate with you doesn't mean it's meaningless or has no value???
chewing through the fucking floorboards
goodreads reviewers aren't human
#like i didn't like 100 años de soledad hell i didn't even finish it and tbh i don't particularly like magical realism#but i still got that it was making a point about latin american history with colonialism and american imperialism#and i can also recognize that its one the important works of not just the genre but south american lit in general#i can accept someone not liking a book i think is good#i cant accept someone missing the piint so incredibly that they think there isn't one#category 7 pissing on the poor event
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#kavi.txt#btw wakes up in a haze and goes i have been refusing to label myself for literal yrs and i am not starting now#aroace works in as much as discussion of the fiction i am compelled by requires; i am queer outside of that. thanks.#idk i'm just. gestures in a way i'm hopefully more coherent about than i was at 2am#friendship is important but sometimes when u are a Specific Way about relationships the categories they go into#in ur head are less about a romantic/platonic(/familial) divide and more abt personal systems#of categorization#it's true to me and it's true to different people i care about in ways that directly intersect with how they are aspec#everything i say ever is less about one category than just. that's not a useful division or dichotomy to me in my personal life; i think#being aro To Me means i sort differently#it's fine and valid if u're someone who *does* clearly delineate between the three and to whom it's important to do so#but i'm mean about cute sexless pure friendship + family in fiction in the same exact way i'm mean about romance as like. a genre.#flippantly + with full awareness my interesting in fiction involves (1) lack of definition (2) any number of characters#who suck about each other and are trying to Bite#which is a very personal preference abt what compels me <3#and i'm mean about the assertation that being aroace implies that u inherently are doing... something i'm not doing.#bc i am and always have been someone that cares more about messiness and gradations of intensity than about#neatness in fiction#edit but also btw importantly i think being able to look outside of pre-set and archetypical categorizations is like.#a huge part of media lit and characterizing#fiction from other people correctly and that's *why* i'm so bitchy abt it in a fandom context#stares at bsd's lack of definition between rships. btw.
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There is a difference between "it's not that deep" and "it's not that nuanced". When we say "it's not that deep", it generally means that the level of symbolism is not nearly as important as others may suggest. That the text can be interpreted without substituting what they appear to be on the surface. Something that isn't deep can still be complex in its nuance, because real life is complex and nuanced! A story with zero depth (mere depiction of events, curtains are blue because I rolled a 6 on the die) can be an endlessly faceted demonstration of the world! Conversely, you can tell a story that is deep like the underwater portion of an iceberg, and it will lack nuance entirely. Satire whose referents have been somewhat lost to time can be like this. What each element of the story represents can be deep like an obscure album cut, but the story itself can still be basic as all get-out, "X bad Y good" stuff.
#category: craft#and speaking of curtains; this is precisely what has frustrated many a student about their lit courses#teachers are so hung up on teaching apparent depth that they strangle the story's nuance#and the nuance is the part that most students would find interesting#the students must first understand what the characters are about before they learn how the syntax or such reinforces those things#of course they don't care about the curtains; they don't even care about the story yet!#stop putting the cart[ains] before the horse
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So We Do Not Part >>>>>> The Vegetarian by a mile.
#we do not part is like....i appreciate it. i might not love it but it's masterfully crafted#how the hell does han kang describe snow in an infinite number of ways?#lmao i had the vegetarian on my shelf for YEARS and the nobel prize finally lit a fire under my butt#and i....didn't like it. i have Thoughts about the type of asian books westerners are drawn to and this slots into that category tbh#but i heard human acts is way better so if the vegetarian is your first book you shouldn't give up#that's next on my list but i got we do not part since it came out a few weeks ago#and MANY THOUGHTS! i'm turning over the book esp the last third or so in my mind like a stone
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