#author: nathaniel hawthorne

[haveyoureadthispoll]

In the interval of silence he stole forward until the light glared full upon his eyes. At one extremity of an open space, hemmed in by the dark wall of the forest, arose a rock, bearing some rude, natural resemblance either to an alter or a pulpit, and surrounded by four blazing pines, their tops aflame, their stems untouched, like candles at an evening meeting. The mass of foliage that had overgrown the summit of the rock was all on fire, blazing high into the night and fitfully illuminating the whole field. Each pendent twig and leafy festoon was in a blaze. As the red light arose and fell, a numerous congregation alternately shone forth, then disappeared in shadow, and again grew, as it were, out of the darkness, peopling the heart of the solitary woods at once. "A grave and dark-clad company," quoth Goodman Brown. In truth they were such.

[rosalinesurvived]

yeah sure your otp may have kissed on the lips but did they bitch at each other on their first scene together like a highschool couple and then immediately get into a bloody traumadumpting deathfight that left her comatised because she protected you when you know all she wanted was to restore her family and you turned so deranged from this that you gained amnesia and recognise nobody and abandon your devout religionism for this girl and live your life for nothing but the fact that you will kill the guy who comatised her? and your boss is willing to allign himself with a terrorist group just so this girl can be revived because she is literally the only thing you worship now? Huh?

[zukkaoru]

what if the way you hold me is actually what's holy?

Fyodor reaches for the cup next. As they bring it to their lips, Nathaniel knows he should look away. Heat pools in his gut and before he can chastise himself, he imagines Fyodor is drinking his blood instead of the Lord’s. He imagines them taking his very essence into their body, swallowing it down, until part of Nathaniel’s soul has irrevocably woven itself into Fyodor.

or: nathaniel hawthorne's last supper

🍷 2.8k words || fyothaniel 🥖 written for @fyodorshipweek2024 day 2: angels & demons

[r0semaryt3a]

Masterlist

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I finally have a masterlist lol, this will basically cover what/who I will/won’t write for or about + have my req status

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Requests - open

Alt sites:

Ao3

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Tad bit of an introduction before I get into anything:

Evening, you can call me Vincent! I go by they/she and have been writing for a good while (at least as long as I could pick up a pen). My sister’s been using tumblr for a while and after a rocky patch of my life I decided to pick it up myself. With my passion for writing I’d be more than ecstatic to write all sorts of requests!

(I’m currently trudging through an old wip of mine by the title of “wings of an Angel” so all requests will be scheduled around that alongside my actual life)

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Existing works - awaiting content

(Characters present in brackets are character written for)

Phantom Troupe - CLOSED ATM

(Chrollo, Feitan, Phinks, Shalnark, Machi, Pakunoda + Uvogin, Hisoka, Illumi if specified)

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Going on a date

Sleeping in the same bed

Lgbt headcannons

S/O hugging them for the first time

Soulmate au

Pillow fight - pending

The Guild

(Francis Scott.K Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Margaret Mitchel, John Steinbeck, H.P Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud)

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SK8 adults

(Cherry Blossom/Kaoru Sakurayashiki, Joe/Kojiro Nanjo, Adam/Ainsouke Shindo, Snake/Tadashi Kikuchi, Kiriko Kamata)

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Lgbt headcannons

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Individual character work

Chrollo

╰┈➤ Vampire Chrollo x Reader - pending

Feitan

╰┈➤ Feitan with a picky eater S/O - pending

Phinks

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Shalnark

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Machi

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Pakunoda

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Francis Scott.K Fitzgerald

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Margaret Mitchell

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John Steinbeck

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H.P Lovecraft

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Mark Twain

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Cherry/Kaoru Sakurayashiki

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Joe/Kojiro Nanjo

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Adam/Ainsouke Shindo

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Snake/Tadashi Kikuchi

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Kiriko Kamata

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Wills/Won’ts

You can pretty much ask for whatever in terms of requests. Most of my currently posted works are headcannons but I’m all for individual oneshots!

I’ll make it clear here that if there are specific characters you want me to prioritise in asks (as I’m not always guaranteed to add them all) please specify in the request!! (+ I’ll make sure to try my best to add a little extra something to their section <3)

Also note that previous point doesn’t apply to SK8 I will always add them all in

Obviously, the usual spiel of offensive or problematic content (ie: child x adult) are absolute no nos but in terms of personal preference? My real won’ts have to be:

Nsfw content - this is for many reasons, the main one being that it makes me uncomfortable

Infidelity/cheating - this is mainly in place for characters like Francis who already canonically have partners but for any romantic requests: no disloyalty should be afoot. (On the note of Francis anytime I write for him will be under the guise that Zelda is A) dead B) doesn’t exist or C) divorced)

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With all that done and said never be afraid to send over a request <3

[thatsbelievable]

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls • Virginia Frances Sterrett, illustrator • Nathaniel Hawthorne, author • 1921 • Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Company

[pegging-satan]

If you’d told me that I’d be shipping a bunch of classic lit authors with each other say like, a year ago, I would’ve laughed in your face

[virtuouslibertines69]

"Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions." - "Rappaccini's Daughter", Nathaniel Hawthorne

Art by Vladimir Volegov

[litandlifequotes]

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

― Nathaniel Hawthorne

[9ofspades]

Dec 5

In honor of today’s Whale Weekly I feel obligated to point out that Herman Melville had really bad writer’s block when he went on a trip with Nathaniel Hawthorne, and while we don’t know exactly what happened, their letters afterwards have some pretty intense homoerotic tension.  This inspired the novel The Whale, which is basically historical slash RPF historical fiction depicting the relationship between Hawthorne and Melville.  

[drunk-poets-society]

Thanks to Bungo stray dogs I will now never be able to picture all these prolific classic literature authors as anything other than twinks dilfs lesbians or menaces to society.

[man-reading]

"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

-1842 by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

David Ortega

David Ortega

[breadstickposting]

my english teacher likes me and i do not know why

[submarinerwrites]

this post is an invitation to write stories with confused and contradictory metaphors. it’s okay bud. your language can contain multitudes.

[totally-lit-road-trips]

Chapter 21: Cemeteries & Crepes

Welcome back to my Totally Lit Road Trip Blog where the lit stands for literary!

After a little snafu with the old hosting site, I’ll be continuing to chronicle my road trip adventures here on Tumblr.

It’s been a minute since my last literary adventure, but now that it’s summer, this teacher is ready for some R & R...Reading & Roaming! 

The first literary road trip of the summer brings us to Concord, Massachusetts, with a pit stop in Providence, Rhode Island along the way. Joining me for the first time is my friend & roommate, Jess.

As part of my goal to visit at least one literary destination in each state, Rhode Island proved to be a little tricky. Being the smallest state, there’s not a ton going on here book-wise. However, Rhode Island is known as the home of H.P. Lovecraft, who was a famous horror & “weird fiction” writer. Now, if you know me in real life, you know that horror is my least favorite genre. I simply do not like to be scared and I hate gore, which is what a lot of modern horror entails. But with his sci-fi take on horror, Lovecraft is much more my vibe. 

Prior to embarking on this trip, I read three of Lovecraft’s short stories:  “The Call of Cthulhu”, “At the Mountains of Madness”, and “The Dunwich Horror”, and I enjoyed being creeped out (but not utterly terrified) by all three. “At the Mountains of Madness” in particular reminded me a lot of Poe’s “The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym,” which Lovecraft actually references in his short story. After my first foray into Lovecraft stories, I’ve reached the conclusion that I do like horror - but just “classics” like Poe, Dracula, and Frankenstein. 

Our first stop on this road trip, therefore, was H.P. Lovecraft’s grave at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, RI. (Okay, it was actually our second stop. After five hours in the car, we needed food first, so we stopped for some delicious crepes at Café Zoey. We recommend the Notre Jam, Elvis in Providence, & Campania crepes!)

Unlike the two cemeteries I visited on last year’s road trips, this one was easy to locate and navigate. Third time’s the charm, I guess! One of the things I love about visiting authors’ graves is seeing all the little trinkets that fans leave on the stones. Lovecraft’s grave had the usual suspects like rocks and pens, but it also had tons of coins, and even two bags of Trolli candies (the octopus and crawler varieties, naturally). 

After paying our respects to Mr. Lovecraft, we hopped back in the car and headed to Concord, MA, where we’ll be for the majority of our trip. There are a TON of literary attractions in Concord, because it was home to so many famous authors, including Louisa May Alcott (Little Women), Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter), and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau (both essayists & poets). 

We decided to stick with the theme of graveyards today, so after we checked into our hotel, we headed to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where you can find the final resting place of all four of these writers on the appropriately named Author’s Ridge.

Despite the fact that we had a mobile map of the cemetery, it still took us a few minutes to figure out exactly how to find Author’s Ridge, but eventually we figured it out. The authors are all buried on family plots, and it’s interesting to see the different ways that each family marked their gravestones. For example, the Alcott family has a large monument with the last name on it, and small gravestones with each family members’ initials, whereas the Thoreau family used first names on their smaller gravestones. 

(The Alcott family plot.)

After our visit to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, we ended our night with dinner at Concord’s Colonial Inn, where Jess had a steak, and I enjoyed some great ravioli in pesto cream sauce. 

Over the next few days, we’re going to visit museums and authors’ homes, so check back soon for more updates!

<3 Theresa

P.S. If you’re new to Totally Lit Road Trips, you should definitely check out my previous blog posts here.

[litandlifequotes]

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

― Nathaniel Hawthorne