#marlon james

[quotespile]

That’s what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.

Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

[pikslasrce]

[transcript: 1. "I feel it's my anger that has helped keep me alive,"

2. "I've polished this anger and now its a knife."

3. "If only I could sustain my anger

Feel it grow stronger and stronger

It sharpens to a point and sheds my skin

Shakes off the weight of my sins

And takes me to heaven"

4. "TELL ME WHERE TO PUT MY ANGER

TELL ME WHERE TO PUT MY ANGER

TELL ME WHERE TO PUT MY ANGER"

5. "Rage, maybe rage would lift me up, make me stand, make me walk —"

6. "Isn't all that rage so ugly?

And isn't it mine, still? Good God, isn't it mine?"/end transcript]

Audre Lorde, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde & Pat Parker // Cathy Linh Che, Go Forget Your Father // The Ballad of the Costa Concordia, Car Seat Headrest // @/rbhvleo (x) // Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf // Ashe Vernon, "Buried", Not a Girl

[discoscoob]

I love when he plays losers

[embeccy]

"Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth."

- Marlon James

[cinematic-literature]

You Hurt My Feelings (2023) by Nicole Holofcener

Book title

To Paradise (2022) by Hanya Yanagihara

I Had to Tell It by Beth Mitchell

A Swim In The Pond In The Rain (2021) by George Saunders

Moon Witch, Spider King (2022) by Marlon James

On Freedom - Four Songs of Care and Constraint (2021) by Maggie Nelson

[mixday]

Red wolf, yo~ still have no idea what`s goin on with his hair pls send help тт

[theoutcastrogue]

I love you non-omniscient narrators, I love you unreliable narrators, I love you multiple POVs, I love you rival POVs, I love you revelations that recontextualise and put to question everything that's preceded them, I love looking at the same thing from different angles, I love you Rashomon, I love you The Last of Us Part II, I love you ASOIAF, I love you Black Leopard, Red Wolf/Moon Witch, Spider King.

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

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[literary-illuminati]

Black Leopard Red Wolf is, like, designed in a lab to be as repulsive to mainstream tumlr/twitter fandom as an epic fantasy story about a hot queer guy could possibly be.

But that said it does provide a great example of the Harkness Test in action.

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[gennsoup]

"People with blood on their hands tend to wash it where they shed it."

Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

[quotespile]

Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.

Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

[litsnaps]

[philosophybitmaps]

[freckles-and-books]

Currently reading

[mixday]

Mossi... the man that you are 💦 (уже ДВАЖДЫ нарисовать позорника трекера но ни разу лучшего мужчину в этой богом проклятой книге преступление и я исправляюсь 😌)