#anne carson. thanks

[grapecaseschoices]

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which rage language are you? quiz. 

Andy:

the regina george (very accurate)

someone hurts you or pisses you off, and you don't do anything. at first. but you hold that feeling of rage in your chest for weeks after the fact, acting nice but silently hating their guts, pretending like all is forgiven until you can ruin their life and hurt them the way they hurt you. it's calculated. but when you've executed your revenge, will you be satisfied?

Hiyam:

step back (somewhat accurate)

usually, you're able to bottle up your emotions and ignore the frustrations. but, after weeks of shoving everything down, your body needs a release, and i pity the poor person who managed to piss you off. it's screaming crying, shouting, kicking lockers, whatever you can do to get it out of your system. it's a whole jean grey moment, fire and fury blasting out of you.

Irvin:

the full read (eh -- maybe.)

whoever pisses you off is in for a rant that exposes every single one of their deepest insecurities and issues. your rage gives you the clarity to hunt for weak spots in a person's mind. your brain works fast, firing off insults at a rapid-fire pace that terrifies everyone within a ten mile radius. this is usually followed by buckets of guilt.

Kendis: 

men, raise the drawbridge (??????? but i took it two different ways so.) 

when you're angry, all your defenses go up. the unfortunate person or thing that managed to piss you off is suddenly talking to a wall. On the inside, you're screaming and crying and cussing them out, but somehow you can't express it. you're blank. emotionless. to anyone's knowledge, you could be zoning out of a lecture. because of this, it's hard to express how you're feeling when the person asks for your thoughts. you've choked your feelings down, and they won't come back up.

Reuben:

step back (yes.)

usually, you're able to bottle up your emotions and ignore the frustrations. but, after weeks of shoving everything down, your body needs a release, and i pity the poor person who managed to piss you off. it's screaming crying, shouting, kicking lockers, whatever you can do to get it out of your system. it's a whole jean grey moment, fire and fury blasting out of you.

Carmela:

the full read (not bad.)

whoever pisses you off is in for a rant that exposes every single one of their deepest insecurities and issues. your rage gives you the clarity to hunt for weak spots in a person's mind. your brain works fast, firing off insults at a rapid-fire pace that terrifies everyone within a ten mile radius. this is usually followed by buckets of guilt.

[thinkershipman]

SHAUNA SHIPMAN: AN ORESTEIA

[imminent-danger-came]

Not to me, not if it’s you.

[youngster-monster]

You're gonna carry that weight

Cowboy Bebop | All These Things That I've Done, The Killers | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong | Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), Emma Sulkowicz | You're So Cool, Nicole Dollanganger | Every Day I Am Trying New Techniques To Make Myself Disappear, E.E Scott | Papyrus of Ani | Impossible Weight, Deep Sea Diver | The Gang Carries a Corpse Up a Mountain, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | an old poem about reflections, Grendel Menz | @jb-blunk | @intactics | The Glass Essay, Anne Carson (thank you @grapecaseschoices )| Henry V, Kenneth Branagh | I, Carrion (Icarian), Hozier | Carrying the Skeleton, Marina Abramović | Atlas, Serhii Hetmanchuk | Dark Knight questline, Final Fantasy XIV

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[luthienne]

your blog is truly my favorite thing. i read so much and so many different things now, it feels like inhaling novels in fifth grade but so much better

and your blog introduced me to Anne Carson. which is of course very much appreciated

oh my god anon — my heart. i'm genuinely beaming, thank you for sharing this with me <33333

[antigo-nicks]

THE GREAT WOUND — a c!fundy piece (2/2) (1/2)

this is the other of my pieces from the dsmp poetry zine :) go check it out!

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

Y’all my mom said ‘oh I got you some books from that show you love’

[fairytale-poll]

📝

📝: Fave quote

I don't have a single favorite quote, so here are a few!

 "[...] a husband or a child can be replaced but who can grow me a new brother?" -Euripides as translated by Anne Carson, Antigonick.

"But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying? Does it feel this way to you?" -Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize for Literature speech.

"Madness as a defense against terror. Madness as a defense against grief." -Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harness to Flesh.

[familiarquotation]

I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us?

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

[konstantintreplev]

from Herakles, by Euripides, trans. by Anne Carson

caps courtesy of grande_caps

[givemearmstopraywith]

i liked robert fagles' translation (penguin books)—it's the one we used for class. it's a compilation of the oedipus trilogy, too, if you'd like :)

thank you!!! that's exactly what i was looking for <3

[secondpersonpoetry]

Anne Carson, Red Doc>:

"To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked. In the grip of it pleasure or pain doesn’t matter. You think what will they do what new power will they acquire if they see me naked like this. If they see you feeling. You have no idea what. It’s not about them. To be seen is the penalty."

Are those the lines you were looking for?

YES that is exactly what i meant, thank you!!

[imminent-danger-came]

"Why didn't he just stop, right here? He was already so much stronger than anyone ever needed to be."

"Well alright then."

"Oh there's nothing mindless about me, friend."

"Come on! Come on! Come on Unckie Lion! You're the big hero right? Then prove it! Show me!"

[daisychainsandbowties]

i need my girl by the national

this song is giving me huge massive siken vibes. i am getting from this the something wrong with me that i get reading crush.

and like. hmm. i have to say this is a camilith song.

"remember when you lost your shit and/ drove the car into the garden/ and you got out and said i'm sorry/ to the vines and no one saw it" <- this is very Cam looking at Lilith.

there is always i think a bit of astonishment in Cam at this creaturely girl, who steps out of the clear blue for her really. like, i don't really think of them as mutual pining before s1. i think Lilith is too much of a radioactive isotope for that, for anything. i think she falls in love with Cam while she's running around Europe, and the only person speaking to her is Cam, who is just shouting into the void of her silence. but she keeps shouting.

anyway this is why they're so very

'it's rotten work'

'not to me. not if it's you'

i know paraphrasing anne carson on main is a little old school but fr this is them. Lilith thinking, "i keep feeling smaller and smaller" bc i for one never forget that Lilith's wings are not permanent. she can summon them at will, and they wrap up under her skin & then leave her diminished, worldly but not enough, with the bones in her human back stretching and bending up like the prongs of a fork when you put it over the heat of the stove and then manipulate it.

"i can't get my head around it"

this really captures the terror i think, for her, of changing in unpredictable ways. & i don't think she ever forgets how Cam sees that wound in her abdomen and makes the sign of the cross, & Lilith always wondering what that prayer was for. terrified to ask.

was it for me or against me?

& i just think that Lilith, actually, when she is wrapped up in herself and being authentic and not performing anything for anyone - i think she would apologise to the stupid inanimate things she crushes by accident. yk i think once she is untethered from all the heated obligations that have twisted her out of shape she's something really beautiful, and Cam can just see it better and faster and more than everyone else.

"i know i was a lot of things/ but i am good."

[estrellade]

slept for abt 90 minutes last night and its 8am and i have showered and braided this bodys hair and my brain feels augmented (in the lesser meaning of the word) and not the normal kind of bad, and at around 6am we realized (again, but that's fine, a hundred thousand times) how deeply art and music are the things that shape our perception of everything, absolutely everything right down to our place in the stupid universe and our interactions in the world. it's so weird that i forget that.

[perfectlypanda]

“I’ll take care of you." / "It’s rotten work." / "Not to me. Not if it’s you.” - Anne Carson (Fire Noodle #15)

Had a hard time with this one and others, been in an art slump.

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