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academic-vampire · 6 months

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𝔒𝔩𝔡 𝔪𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔶

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fictionadventurer · 11 months

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I have a germ of a theory that good Christian fiction has stories that are less about shaving down your personality to meet some specific mold of what a good Christian looks like, and more about "how gloriously different are all the saints."

Not that the Christian life doesn't involve fighting against our own sinful nature and conforming ourselves to Christ-like behavior, but I think it makes for better, more realistic, and more universal stories when you also recognize that people have different gifts and flaws and they're going to be called to use their unique personalities to serve the kingdom of God in their own unique way, instead of assuming everyone has to conform themselves to a very specific (often secular-culturally based) image of good behavior. It makes for a much more vibrant story.

#catholic things #books #i'm still ruminating on charlotte yonge #because i usually contrast modern christian fiction with how the classics incorporated christianity #but she's the first classic victorian author i've found that i'd describe as writing christian fiction #which makes for a more direct comparison #she did handle religion in some very good ways #but i tried another of her books after 'heir'#and it reminded me of what i didn't like about the childhood section of 'heir'#but magnified a lot #she wants to show her children overcoming flaws #but she has a very narrow english anglo-catholic view of goodness #and that means her idea of christianity can come across as very judgemental and narrow-minded #things that are not actually sins in and of themselves are treated as moral failings inherent to other cultures #and the kids spend so much time worrying about cutting out sin that you don't get to see enough of their unique personality #i'd be willing to try more from her but i think i'd have to stick to the stories about adult characters

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pawfulofwaffles · 10 months

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Nhnhnhn holidays

It’s very snowy, Eddie better be careful delivering mail…

(In the first picture, since it’s hard to read, Frank is saying “Happy Hanukkah” and Howdy is saying “Merry Christmas” and their exclamations are colliding, so they just go with “Happy Holidays” instead)

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hyunpic · 10 months

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HYUNJIN for nacific

#hyunjin #skz #stray kids #as much as im wondering did they sign a life time long contract with nacific #i am also very thankful for this hot librarian/english professor aesthetic.#hook me up with that book club card if he’s there or whatever 🙈😍😋😛

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in-sufficientdata · 1 year

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A bilingual book about the Māori creation story has won the highest accolade in children's literature.

Te Wehenga: The Separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku by Motueka writer Mat Tait (Ngāti Apa ki te rātō) won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults held at Wellington's Pipitea Marae.

Te Wehenga simultaneously tells the Māori creation pūrākau, which explains the beginning of the world, in te reo Māori and English.

#language #english #maori #māori #aotearoa #new zealand #news #current events #books #reading #kids #children #children's literature #articles #rnz

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fandom-geek · 3 months

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vaguely fascinated by osana sov's naming choices. she chose for her daughter a name that can mean "bitter (strength)" or "lady" in two ancient languages (hebrew and aramaic) and for her son a name that means "old friend" in another ancient language (old english)

like every other golden age character has a name that's pretty normal by our standards, which tbh includes mara, then osana just names her other kid uldwyn. then again, even osana's name is either a variant of the hebrew hosanna or after an obscure and possibly fictitious old english princess-saint whose name means something along the lines of "godly solitude", so i suppose mara might be considered the odd one out

#destiny 2 #osana sov #ngl i lean towards the old english meaning for osana bc it's very fitting given she lives in the wilderness w uldren in the distributary #also want to acknowledge osana's name could be japanese (“childhood friend”) but given her kids have names from hebrew and old english #it seems pretty likely that her name has one or both of the same origins #either way osana was def a history nerd btwn this and her mentioning weregilds unprompted in the marasenna #though it's very interesting to me that most of what we *see* of osana in her in the context of her motherhood #even though she's also an extremely renowned negotiator and mara mentions osana also had premonitions (presumably of the collapse)#...there's a vague irony that osana and mara (and crow) had truthful visions but uldren's were purely a deceit by riven #also i have feelings abt the fact that mara and osana were the only ones to remain w their names unchanged amongst the original awoken #(to our knowledge at least) since mara whose namesake comes from the book of ruth where naomi changed her name to that out of grief #and mara changed basically every other person aboard that ship consciously or otherwise #but did she change her mother/let the transformation change her? idk it's been a lingering thought in my brain since forsaken #anyway this is inspired by me trying to figure out what the revenants' watchtower is guarding #i don't think it's the pre-existing one to the dreaming city bc the scorn are already there #notably all the lore calls it *the* watchtower but the livestream mentioned *a* watchtower so i think it must be a different one #my spinfoil hope is that it's guarding the entrance to the distributary but also interamnia (awoken capital) would be cool #edit: should prob mention i'm assuming uld- equals ald- (old) but like. fairly simple assumption given everything

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boy-in-red-dress · 2 months

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Update! 2/3

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#billford #gravity falls #gf #the book of bill #standford pines #bill cipher #ao3 #fanfic #mature audiences only #i tried my best #the relationship between Ford and the kids is so cute #that man is beekeeping age #update #its my life long dream to have someone in my comment section to just analyze everything and go English teacher mode #please someone anyone do it im begging #i want to hear theories and metaphors and more #mabel pines #dipper pines

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skunkes · 8 months

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#prefacing this with I Know Spanish. i cant not know spanish‚ my parents don't speak english #but im the only one of my siblings that didnt get to go to school over there 🇲🇽 (just pre school)#adn the thing is like. my siblings wld talk to me in eng of course #(if they talked to me at all! what do u say to a baby when you're 9 12 and 15 yrs older.)#and my parents wld similarly jst not talk to me? i did not have conversations with them from birth to now lol.#thjere is something about how like. my sisters kids are also learning the languages at the same time #but when they mess up in spanish theyre corrected‚ by my sister (their mom)‚ my other sister‚ my parents #why not Me. why wasnt that extended to Me as a child...#the same reason I have the least amount of baby pictures while my siblings all have one full book each i bet #the same reason why my and my eldest sister are 15 yrs apart LOL #igts so crazy to me. i hate mentioning this bc people assume #im one of those ppl who isnt fluent bc their parents speak english and spanish and never taught them #my parents dont speak english❗❗❗❗#my nephew thats older than me who is my fave family member and also only speaks spanish #is coming up on sunday idk that i can fully carry convo with him!#pure spanglish bc i didnt grow up having convos in it writing it reading it #thats why im so desperate to read books in spanish now. im so deeply ashamed #igts so crazy. i hate it.#saw a comment on smthng the other day thats like ''idk how u can have parents that only speak spanish and not know it lol''#well can you take a guess. can u take a guess as to how that would happen via interactions. lack thereof.#idk why but its even more embarrassing this way. genuinely how cld u not know...?#its like i was born to feel isolated from my family in every single way...youngest by so many years #the language thing. the Hates Eating thing. the trans thing. most severe failure to launch #im so embarrassed to be alive....!#and i dont belong anywhere. and i am Alone wherever I am.#abandoned by direct and distant relatives. ancestors.

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oncillabrigade · 3 months

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Okay so here's my thing: I figured I would hop right into part 2 of my babby Tim fic after finishing part 1, and then a really fucked up Tim/Ra's idea jumped into my head and got me by the throat, and now I have mood whiplash from my own brain/writing?!

Also, a scene from my truly stupid, self-indulgent "Jason and Tim accidentally become bros immediately" fic sprung into my sleepy mind and then poured itself out of my fingers fully formed into a Google Doc.

So. I may be writing multiple longfics at the same time. Wish me luck?!

#jacey rants #jacey writes #the jason and tim are bros fic is so funny to me #because essentially jason kidnaps tim and tries to terrify him out of being robin #and tim is such a little shit #that jason immediately goes oh no i have a little brother #get bruce's sorry ass kid #i will help #and then tim does not realize having jason as a big brother means he is now expected to not be in goblin mode 24/7 #there is a lot of screeching #and mutual much-needed emotional release/support #they accidentally end up as very very good brothers #dick has no idea how to feel about it #and bruce is still in the dark #so yeah keep an eye out for that one #the scene i wrote is jason sternly making tim do a book report for himself because it develops critical thinking skills #and tim's entire view of english class is shook #he might have to like literature now?!#like wtf jason why you gotta make him a nerd on top of being a geek?#rude.#tim drake #jason todd #ra's al ghul #batfam

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venomgaia · 4 months

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limbus oc Nemo and Screwloose Wallop

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#driftoodles #limbus company #nemo (oc)#shes 46 years old she was married and had kids she hates everything and actively griefs the city when she can #she has ties to Ucorp and the seventh association she smokes fancy cigars and she speaks french german english and a few orher languages #couldnt decide if i wanted to make a characte rbased on Verne or the guys from center of the earth but. picked nemo at random #nemo also appears in multiple books sotheres more to fuck eitn there #ill design a proper page for her n logo n base ego n skillset eventhally. not now #but her base skills are gloom and pride and her base ego is wrath #weapon is named nautilus and its an astrolabe chakram #that slots into a glove she wears on one hand #n e wayz

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aechlys · 3 months

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Honestly, I see misty, mossy forest pictures and all I hear now is a desperately sung "私は獣にあなたは妖精に生まれ..."

"I a beast and you a fairy were we born... Just for this one twinkling of a human moment tasting each other, we live..."

"Body like willowy torchlight softly cast The color of the lake shadowy but also rather of a deep lamentation"

"Even breath forgetting... Your voice far away... 'You will know I...am not...here...' "

"If there is writhing agony In your heart's depths... 'I have known that you...are not...here...' "

"I a beast and you a fairy were we born... Just for this one twinkling of a human moment tasting each other, we live..."

"No one even knows..."

"On the b e d of the l a k e..."

"If this is a dream I beg to just remain in it...always...forever..."

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original lyrics by Atsushi Sakurai, music by Masami Tsuchiya, translation by myself, Aechlys. >DO NOT REPOST ANYWHERE or I will send ghosts after you.

#sakurai atsushi #Tsuchiya Masami #my translations #chiisana mori no hito #小さな森の人 #buck tick #this piece is more poem than song and I've tried to preserve that here #many of the end words of the english lines are the end words of the japanese lines #it felt important to preserve that for some reason #this is not a typical song at all #this was insanely tricky because despite how stingy with words it is there seems to be a lot going on with the kanji to deconstruct #so like the second line seems very over the top but that's the color of the kanji coming through- he chose very specific and unusual kanji #or at least it seemed to me that way so I tried to work it in while preserving and reflecting everything else #sparse on words *massive* in ideas and suggestions- he really outdid himself on this song #many of the comments on the initial video I found for this song had native speakers wishing he had published his own book of poetry #his son is an award winning writer and they were saying Atsushi could have done so as well- not to outshine his own kid but we missed out #and after translating this and fretting over it for weeks I have to agree #this song brought me to tears repeatedly when I first found it #this weird strange seductive lullaby where you don't know who's alive & who's dead- all you know is the sound and the glimmer and the taste #the taste is everything!! under the water on the BED of the lake where nobody even knows!!! God!!!!!#I hope when I am on the edge of death Atsushi calls me to the afterlife with this song- there's no other reasonable way to go honestly

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sassafrasmoonshine · 10 days

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Ernest Aris (British/English,1882–1963) • The Thistledown Elves, from Blackie's Children's Annual • 1927 • Published by Blackie and Son, London, 1927

#illustration #art #illustrator #artwork #ernest aris #british/english artist #book illustration #children's literature #children's books #kid lit #elves & fairies illustration #sassafras and moonshine blog #illustration blog #1920s illustration

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saturnniidae · 6 months

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Out here fighting for my life tryna explain the lore of a movie that came out in 2015, was a huge box office flop, never (to my knowledge) got an English dub, isn't rated, and can only be found on an archival site 😭

#PLEASE GUYS #dofus book 1 julith is SO good #it ties into the lore of wakfu #the animation is beautiful #just ignore thr fan service okay also nudity isnt that big a deal #pls ols pls pls watch it #being an english wakfu fan is kinda rough ngl bc #everyone i talk to who knows what it is like watched it as a kid and has like no interest beyond that #bakara jurgen is my gf btw #dofus movie #dofus #dofus livre 1: julith #wakfu #moth.txt

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academic-vampire · 6 months

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When my siblings have kids, I’m going to give them so many books.

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newvision · 1 year

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— Frank O’Hara, Lunch Poems

#WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A KID LIKE ME #IF YOU DON’T EAT ME I’LL HAVE TO EAT MYSELF #frank o’hara #lunch poems #mine #o’hara #american literature #American lit #English lit #English literature #literature #poetry #books #litblr #🕰️#🌧️#🫀

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theletterboxstuff · 9 days

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Currently going through nostalgia and grief for the gifted high achiever kid I used to be

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