#memory Anne

[sonasnowdrop]

Concept art dump for my fic from ch19 to ch29 !! I don’t really like to share concept art much, but I actually liked all these design stages I did. There’s more but ofc it won’t all fit here, so maybe I’ll post em later JJSJSJ. I feel like a storyboard artist…../pos

[feral-ballad]

Anne Michaels, from Skin Divers; “The Second Search”

[Text ID: “I can only find you / by looking deeper, that’s / how love / leads us into the world. / My hands burn / all the time.”]

[megalopolus]

tdroti girls i drew on the plane

[t0bey]

ALL 42 SURVIVORS!!!!!!!!!! ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷

[aseaofquotes]

Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

[chawawanya]

slowly but surely...

[flickerintwilights]

—Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

[vellichnora]

On grief and loss

1. Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior/ 2. Andrew Garfield interview/ 3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/ 4. Jamie Anderson/ 5. Fleabag/ 6. Anne Carson, Glass, irony and god / 7. Brokeback Mountain/ 8. Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere/ 9. John Banville, The Sea/ 10. Wandavision

[carnivalparty]

⟶ Icon set of the newest Lawson collaboration 🏙️

[akuma-tenshi]

idv characters as really shitty (actually phenomenal) blackout poems

all taken from @reallybadblackoutpoems (thank you for your service)

[missnarcissistsworld]

"You remember too much,"

my mother said to me recently.

"Why hold onto all that?"

And I said,

"Where can I put it down?"

She said,

"When you see these horrible images why do you stay with them? Why keep watching? Why not go away?"

I was amazed.

"Go away where?" I said.

- Anne carson, from "The Glass Eassy"

[sonasnowdrop]

ok but is it THAT weird that i half-imagine audrey singing "change" (from SU) to memory!anne in ch.29 for some reason??? (ITS BEEN IN MY HEAD FOR SOME DUMB REASON HELP-) 😭😭😭

I CAN SEETHIS HAPPENING IMCRYING.

[feral-ballad]

Anne Michaels, from Skin Divers; “Ice House”

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Anne Carson

[dk-thrive]

Proust says memory is of two kinds. There is the daily struggle to recall where we put our reading glasses and there is a deeper gust of longing that comes up from the bottom of the heart involuntary. At sudden times. For sudden reasons.

— Anne Carson, from "Wildly Constant" in "Float" (Knopf, 2016) (via @WriterACMcHugh & via Alive on All Channels)

[beartrice-inn-unnir]

10. What is your favorite genre book to recommend to someone who doesn’t usually like that genre?

Usually when people ask me for a rec for a genre they don’t usually like, they are asking for sci-fi, and I start by trying to figure out different access points based on what they already like. I’m not much of a hard sci-fi person, tending more to the space opera and political thrillers, so here’s a few “if you like x, maybe try y”:

If you like romance, give Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit a try. It’s definitely sci-fi in setting and plot, but it also hits nicely in the formulaic patterns of a arranged-marriage, strangers-to-lovers story that will help you through it even if the sci-fi elements are throwing you off. The author has another similar book that increases the sci-fi elements and is enemies-to-lovers as well, so if you like Winter’s Orbit, Ocean’s Echo is a good next step.

If you like non-fiction, The Martian by Andy Weir is a great pick. I have multiple friends who got into reading again as adults via The Martian. It’s well-written, well-grounded, funny, and very sci-fi. If you’ve already read it, then maybe give To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers a try. It can be described with all the same adjectives, plus it’s a short novella, so if you’re hesitant, it’s less intimidating.

If you like mysteries or political thrillers, boy is there a lot of great sci-fi out there for you. The crux of a lot of sci-fi is space or high-tech settings with a plot that asks questions about personhood, and that mixes really well with detectives and spies wandering around trying to solve problems and find truths. Try Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (it’s partway through a series of great books and novellas, but that one’s the most traditional mystery plot) or A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (ambassador solving her predecessor’s mysterious death while trying to do his job)(I’d also recommend this one if you read a lot of classics) EDIT: just realized I mistyped - book 1 by Arkady Martine is A Memory Called Empire.

If YA/ Bildungsromanen/ New Adult figuring the world out through trial and error is often your jam, try Provenance by Ann Leckie (for the kid who really wants to do things right) or The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold (for another kid who wants to do things right, but is also a high-energy chaos gremlin).

If you like fantasy, you probably already have read some sci-fi; it’s all under the speculative fiction umbrella and genres are vague anyway. All the same, I know this is the Locked Tomb Website, but give Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir a shot (it’s got magic and mayhem and an epic locked-room whodunnit mystery). The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord is also good - it has a team of people traveling together and thinking about morals and discovering new abilities, plus some romance.

I’m sure there’s lots of genres I’m forgetting right now, but feel free to send me another ask for any specific one!