#text to text connections

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Let it end. Don't force the connection.

[ashcremated]

✨🌙✨

[indigosparkle333]

Having an intellectual conversation with someone knowing they’re also dirty asf is such a turn on

[massivex]

My soul wants to touch your soul.

[wordx]

She wasn't mine, and I wasn't hers, but she was so good at making me feel like we belonged to each other.

[datcravat]

MKW✨

[luthienne]

José Saramago, Cain (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)

Roland Barthes, Mythologies (tr. Annette Lavers)

[glassrunner]

"Fuck, man. What else is there to say?"

Excerpts from the BoJack Horseman Pony Express

MOUTHWASHING (2024), dev. Wrong Organ

[rosavelle]

I loved you like my own soul.

[nova-rpv]

a redraw of the first drawing i posted here to celebrate the fact that ive been in tumblr for more than a whole year posting my shit and havent deleted my blog in panic yippee \:D/ (mushy rant in tags)

[lukas-reading-journal]

Reading Journal Day 6

Notes on text-to-text connections

Make ongoing comparisons between your novel and other texts or media that you are familiar with, such as:

films or television shows

texts you have read in this course (short stories, personal essays, poems, plays)

other novels you have read

"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger: Both novels capture the disillusionment and alienation experienced by their respective protagonists. Nick Carraway and Holden Caulfield are critical observers of the society they inhabit, perceiving it as superficial and lacking in authenticity. They navigate worlds filled with social pretenses and are unable to find genuine connections with those around them. The theme of identity is prominent in both works, as Nick and Holden grapple with questions of who they are and what they want from life.

Significant quote from "The Great Gatsby": "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (Fitzgerald 121).

"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller: Both works examine the pursuit of the American Dream and its consequences. Willy Loman and Jay Gatsby share a desperate desire for success and happiness, driven by their vision of the American Dream. However, their dreams become distorted and unattainable, leading to their eventual downfall. The themes of identity, the illusion of success, and the destructive nature of unattainable dreams are explored in both works.

Significant quote from "The Great Gatsby": "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther..." (Fitzgerald 110).

"Mad Men" (TV series, Available on Prime Video if you would like to check it out): Both "The Great Gatsby" and "Mad Men" delve into the pursuit of the American Dream and the complexities of 20th-century society. They portray characters immersed in worlds of wealth, glamour, and social expectations, but who often find themselves hollow and unfulfilled. The works critique the shallow materialism and the façade of happiness that masks deeper personal struggles. Themes of identity, the emptiness of pleasure-seeking, and the consequences of elusive desires resonate in both narratives.

Significant quote from "The Great Gatsby": "He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night" (Fitzgerald 208).

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I don’t fall for bodies. I fall for the way your soul softens when you speak of dreams, for the cracks in your voice when you talk about pain, for the way your mind glows in moonlight thoughts.

[pastelaeqy]

1 minute sketch which very quickly turned into a 1 hour render

[blindfolded-nakedtruth]

And she loves the way he looks at her.

[demigods-posts]

having percy create a hurricane in the son of neptune was an amazing choice. not only do we get to see percy return to himself in that scene, remembering all that's left to fight for. we have to keep in mind that this hurricane wasn't on accident like in the battle of manhattan. it didn't happen by chance because he was annoyed with his opponent. it was on purpose, which shows he's more in tune with himself than ever before, and more powerful than we last saw him. this was easily one of the top highlights of this book for me.