#lit stacks

[sunsetcurveauto]

Tell me about the dream where we pull bodies out of the lake / and dress them in warm clothes again.

bbc merlin: diamond of the day: part 2 // angels in america, tony kushner // kokomo, victoria hannan // bbc merlin: behind the scenes // the ghost on the shore, lord huron // leaving port, ingeborg bachmann (tr. mark anderson) // scheherazade, richard siken

[carfuckerlynch]

[transcript: 1. “god is fucking with my oblivion. if he wants forgiveness, he shouldn’t have given us memory.”

2. “your god comes and he is ordinary and terrible. he confers with the doctors at your kitchen table and tells you to eat….”

3. “our father who art in heaven. our father who art buried in the yard.”

4. “at the trial of god, we will ask: ‘why did you allow all this?’ and the answer will be an echo: ‘why did you allow all this?’”

5. “i don’t believe in god as much as i believe in the interrogation room. i believe in someone placing a loaded gun on a metal table between me and a door. who gets to be god then? will god be the bullet or the table or the door.”

6. “every spy knows this. some say god is where we put our sorrow. god says, which one of you fuckers can get to me first?”/end transcript.]

vi khi nao— fish in exile/leila chatti— portrait of the illness as nightmare/richard siken— snow and dirty rain/ilya kaminsky— a city like a guillotine shivers on its way to the neck/hanif abdurraqib— all the tv shows are about cops/richard siken— war of the foxes

[fluocininide]

salma deera - letters from medea | hbo's the last of us | frank o'hara - having a coke with you | amal el-mohtar - this is how you lose the time war | hbo's the last of us | langston hughes - poem | marina tsvetaeva - i'm glad your sickness... | hbo's the last of us | the mountain goats - love love love

[ribombeee]

twin fantasy (those boys) - car seat headrest

junya watanabe

thank you for sending me an angel - talking heads

brutus - the buttress

gattaca (1997) - andrew niccol

20 dollar nose bleed - fall out boy

[red-umbrella-811]

You know I want you to reblog this so I get more answers

[macrolit]

from ml.books

[life-spire]

[the-not-so-lowly-bookworm]

A novel about imperialism, racism, and ancient Peruvian culture slowly morphs into a magical world of walking statues, glowing pollen trails, and a queer love story through generations. I look forward to reading Pulley’s The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.

7.5/10

[specialmouse]

Bitches hate seeing a girl have fun

[cadaverousdecay]

everyone knows by know how much i love wikipedia, but i will say, having 47 tabs open will NEVER come close to being surrounded by piles and piles of books. it’s enrichment. trying to figure out which books might have information on the topic, flipping through the index to figure out what page, finding new exciting topics while looking and abandoning the old topic and starting up the search all over again. this is the most fun i’ve had

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

When will Ms. Pulley write a pathetic gay humanities major protag that speaks to my soul once again

the stem majors have had the spotlight for LONG ENOUGH

[carfuckerlynch]

[transcript: 1. “I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey, if you stay, you'll be forgiven; nothing you can say can stop me going home."

2. "Prior: Dreaming used to be so… safe.

Harper: It isn't, thought, it's dangerous, imagining to excess. It can blow up in your face. Threshold of revelation."

3. "He thought about wanting to feel like he had been made for something more than dying."

4. "You must fix you heart, and you must build an altar where it swells."

5. "Here is the game: today you are not going to die."

6. "Yes, it comforts me much more, yes it comforts me much more to lay in the foundations of decay. Get up, coward!"

7. "You will save yourself. You cannot help it."

8. "I don’t want to die in here. I don’t want to die in here."

9. "O plunge your hands in water, plunge them in up to the wrist; stare, stare in the basin and wonder what you've missed."

10. "Say that it is the impulse of the soul to endure forever. Say it again." /End transcript]

my chemical romance– famous last words/tony kushner– angels in america/maggie stiefvater— mister impossible/my chemical romance– the foundations of decay/grant howitt/my chemical romance– the foundations of decay/molly brodak– bee in jar/the mountain goats– heel turn 2/w. h. auden– as i walked out one evening/joyce sutphen– say it

[fluocininide]

hbo’s the last of us | leonard cohen’s letter to marianne

[heligan]

The line where Merrick notices that Raphael took his cross off the church wall in order to hang up a washing line shows how, in Raphael’s role as priest, religion itself only comes second after taking practical care of his parishioners. In this essay I will

[left-handlibrary]

Just a little coffee and a queer fantasy reading stack. It’s always the genre I return to when my concentration wanes 🤷🏼‍♀️

I semi-recently finished Huntress by Malinda Lo and really enjoyed the writing! (Some more detailed thoughts to come, perhaps). It makes me think I might have to revisit Ash one of these days.

I’m also super keen for the third instalment in Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills Cycle which has just been released (thank you @rae-laxing for getting me into this series by gifting me a copy 💛). Now all that awaits me in this stack is Ellen Klages Passing Strange. I’m waiting for the right moment of inspiration to hit before picking it up. Fingers crossed that time comes soon

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Dave: girl in class is talking about how ishmael's reasons for going to sea are "not relatable" bro what could be more relatable. he's sad and he gets on a boat about it