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It is plain enough that fairy-stories (in the wider or narrower sense) are very ancient indeed. Related things appear in very early records; and they are found universally, wherever there is language. […] The history of fairy-stories is probably more complex than the physical history of the human race, and as complex as the history of human language. All three things: independent invention, inheritance, and diffusion, have evidently played their part in producing the intricate web of Story.

— J. R. R. Tolkien, On Fairy-stories [x]

Realism is of course a tremendous and wonderfully capacious literary genre, and it has dominated fiction since 1800 or before. But dominance isn’t the same thing as superiority. Fantasy is at least as immense as realism and much older  —  essentially coeval with literature itself.

— Ursula K. le Guin interview (2016) [x]

I spent years struggling to convince myself that folk tales and the fantastic could also be literary. When we relegate certain types of work into literary or non-literary, we undermine the purpose of fiction: to reflect our humanity and our reality, both of which are strange and fantastic in their purest forms. […] The strange and fabulous exists.

— Hannah Gilham, Discovering the Fabulists [x]

Fantasy was without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flowed. […] The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest works of literature, and by the standard we would apply now — that’s fantasy. The national literature of Finland, the Kalevala. Beowulf in England. The Bahaghvad Gita. The national literature, the one that underpins everything else, is […] a work of fantasy.

— Terry Pratchett interview (1995) [x]

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the hungers of hadewijch and eckhart, donald f. duclow // stigmata: escaping texts, hélène cixous // you are in a hotel room, joan tierney // the notebooks of malte laurids brigge, rainer maria rilke // great expectations, kathy acker // hot-hand fallacy, jasmine gibson // erotism: death and sensuality, georges bataille // cain, josé saramago // love in the time of monsters, emily palermo // a curious night for a double eclipse, j. karl bogartte.

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characters who refuse to bury the loved one... who hide the rotting body somewhere in the house. who drag it for miles bc they can't leave it behind. who cannibalize. who taxidermize. who come back and dig up the bones

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i hate you booktok i hate you overly organised bookshelves i hate you hard cover supremacists i hate you reading challenges i hate you colleen hoover i hate you people who can only seem to read ya or romance i hate you same style of cover in every modern book i hate you rupi kaur i hate you plain boring prose i hate you buying books just for the "aesthetic" i love you pretentiousness i love you being a snob

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Cardan Greenbriar is so relatable. I, too, would like to push the love of my life into a lake if that means I wouldn't have to talk to them.

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Jude literally stabbed her own hand, murdered someone, and poisoned herself, but was still scared of a skinny white boy with the inability to stay sober

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achilles loved patroclus so much that when pat died the gods feared for their lives and i just am so in love with that fact. like i want someone to love me to that point

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achilles and patroclus / andromache and hector / odysseus and penelope

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Catalina: I'm sure he hates me but it doesn't matter, I hate him too

Aaron: *remembers even the smallest things she says about what she likes and then does/buys them for her*

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yo bro, who got you smiling like that?

me:

-Aaron Blackford

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annotation

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all I need is a pile of books

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Achilles didn't fight for glory, for honor, or for the Greeks. He fought to die. He fought to die only to be reunited with his beloved, Patroclus. And when he died, he died smiling, because he knew he'd meet him soon.

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"ugh I'm bored of reading about Feysand and the Inner Circle and the Night Court" sorry babes not relatable I would read another 10 books about Feyre and her friends. It could be a book where all Feyre does is walk around velaris with Rhys and paint and I would eat it up

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can we talk about the fact that rhys almost cried ‘cause feyre wanted to dance on starfall?

she smiled, drew on him and wanted to dance and he was so overwhelmed with relief he almost cried

I don’t know man, these two hit a spot so deep in my heart I can’t even explain it

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Jurdan's kid: can I go out tonight?

Cardan: what did your mom say?

Kid: she said no.

Cardan: then why would I let you?

Kid: because mom's not the boss of you?

Cardan: *internally* THIS IS A TRAP THIS IS A TRAP THIS IS A TRAP THIS IS A TRAP