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white-weasel · 9 months

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Seeing everyone praise an author in the comments of a TikTok and I’m wondering if I just read one of her duds or if I just didn’t “get it”

#I’m gonna give the author the benefit of the doubt because tbf the one I read I don’t remember having an issue with the actual writing #moreso I just felt that the concept of the book could have been good but was instead just rehashing famous mistreated women in comics #fuck it I’ll be more clear here and say names and titles #the book I read is the refrigerator monologues #by Catherynne Valente #and idk I was so excited about the premise of wronged women meeting up in the afterlife and getting to interact and engage with each other #but what it actually was was basically just rehashing actual stories of women comic book characters and how they were wronged #with very little interaction between them #like I definitely appreciate what the book was trying to do but I feel like since all the characters are parodies of marvel/dc female charas #there wasn’t enough actual new-ness injected into their backstories #I guess if you view the book as more a collection than a novel it’s better but ehhhh I just feel like I go crazy when I see every review #about this book praise it so extensively #and any bad review is just ‘feminism bad’ which is NOT why I don’t like the book #anyways rant over this is incomprehensible lol #tbd probs #white weasel talks

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bookaddict24-7 · 9 months

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"A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection."

-The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente

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asoftepiloguemylove · 6 months

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KNOW IT'S FOR THE BETTER // ON THE LONELINESS AFTER ABANDONMENT

S.A. Khanum "Rome Falls," Kingdoms in the Wild // boygenius Not Strong Enough // Fleurie Love and War // unknown // Sleeping At Last Mother // Catherynne M. Valente Deathless // @heavensghost // pinterest // Mitski I Don't Smoke

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voli-tile · 6 months

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doomed by the bloody narrative

unknown but likely @/scribbleshrimp on tiktok // richard siken, wishbone // @achillics on tumblr // karese burrows, persephone writes a poem // sandra cisneros, one last poem for richard // @theskeletonprior on tumblr // catherynne m. valente, deathless // catherynne m. valente, deathless // richard siken, snow and dirty rain

#web weaving #web weave #web #durgetash #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #the dark urge #durge #enver gortash #they haunt me 24/7 #richard siken #karese burrows #sandra cisneros #catherynne m. valente

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perfectfeelings · 7 months

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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

Catherynne M. Valente

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thoughtkick · 3 months

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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

Catherynne M. Valente

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quotefeeling · 9 months

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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

Catherynne M. Valente

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perfectquote · 4 months

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Remember this …I moved the earth and the water for you.

Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

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hedgehog-moss · 5 months

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My top 10 nonfiction reads of 2023 (the asterisked ones are in French with no translation as of yet) :

Belle Greene, Alexandra Lapierre

The Indomitable Marie-Antoinette, Simone Bertière

Reporter: A Memoir, Seymour Hersh

Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Keefe

Servir les riches, Alizée Delpierre*

La Comtesse Greffulhe : L’ombre des Guermantes, Laure Hillerin*

Le Courage de la nuance, Jean Birnbaum*

The Book Collectors of Daraya, Delphine Minoui

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement, Hawon Jung

#book recs #i haven't finished the last one yet but it's been good so far! i really admire these women's resilience and solidarity #some inspiring stories of political activism + insight into aspects of korean history i didn't know about #i wanted to do a half-fiction half-nonfiction list like last year but i've read mostly disappointing fiction this year :(#my favourites were probably kivirähk's the man who spoke snakish & catherynne valente's radiance; though it wasn't as good as orphan tales #i'm reading jacques abeille's les jardins statuaires right now and it's quite frustrating because on the one hand #it's well-written and interesting with original worldbuilding. on the other i'm 300 pages in and there have been #2 female characters. the purpose of both (so far) was to have sex with the male protagonist and only 1 has a name #which makes the read feel less original and more ''same old shit as far as i'm concerned''

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fandom-trash-goblin · 2 months

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there are days I stare at the stars and pray with all my heart— please, let me be a child again, let me try once more. this time i will not regret, this time i will do it right.

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente // two slow dancers, Mitski // in image // in image // the great war - taylor swift // in image // erica e. goode?? not sure. // this wordpress

#poetry #quotes #spilled ink #poems and quotes #spilled poetry #words #webweaving #webweave #aesthetic #poems and poetry #writing #poem #spilled thoughts #web weaving #*mine: graphics #let me know if i need to tag something more #catherynne m. valente #mitski

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lillyli-74 · 6 months

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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

~Catherynne M. Valente

#catherynne m. valente

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feral-ballad · 2 years

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I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless

#catherynne m. valente #womanhood #girlhood #excerpts #writings #literature #prose #fragments #selections #words #quotes #prose collection

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asoftepiloguemylove · 3 months

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MY ONE AND ONLY // ON LOVE THAT ISN'T ENOUGH

Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Adam Silvera They Both Die at the End // Lorde Ribs // Chris Abani Dog Woman // System of a Down Lonely Day // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Catherynne M. Valente Deathless // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Olivia Gatwood "The Lover as a Cult," Life of the Party // Sufjan Stevens Mystery of Love // @/perennials on ao3 (link to fic) // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Azra T. (quote via @wedarkacademia)

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loveakii · 2 months

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“Nice and neat, tragedy. Restful, too. In a drama, with its traitors, its desperate villains, its innocent victims, avengers, devoted followers and glimmers of hope, death becomes something terrible, a kind of accident. You might have arrived in time with the police. But tragedy's so peaceful! For one thing, everybody's on a par. All innocent! It doesn't matter if one person kills and the other is killed - it's just a matter of casting. And above all, tragedy's restful, because you know there's no lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat in a trap, with all heaven against you. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you didn't even know till now… And to no purpose - just so as to tell it to yourself... to learn it, yourself. In drama you struggle, because you hope you're going to survive. It's utilitarian - sordid. But tragedy is gratuitous. Pointless, irremediable. Fit for a king!” —Jean Anouilh, Antigone

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nobeerreviews · 7 months

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A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

-- Catherynne M. Valente

(Roma)

#labyrinth #world #big world #catherynne m. valente #travel photography #roma #Italy #quote #pantheon

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thoughtkick · 5 months

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Remember this …I moved the earth and the water for you.

Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

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