#on reading widely

[frogfacey]

swinging a bat at a hornets nest and all that but I can't believe some ppl will see a character who, when you look them for more than two seconds, was in the text assigned male at birth and because of this spends the entire narrative being miserable as a man and feels failed by and is accused of failing at the expectations of masculinity and is trapped in a set of unspoken societal rules that he feels he has no hope of escaping and their first thought is "I think he's transmasc!"

[finelythreadedsky]

it's so great that in greek tragedy there are only three paradigms for a woman leaving her house (her wedding, her funeral, and maenadic rites) and they're all kind of the same thing also

[bubblybloob]

I find it very funny that supposedly every time our voices bicker and argue, the princess is just left there, totally unaware.

She seemingly acknowledges this too! After a while of back and forth in our mind, she’ll pipe up because she’s noticed we’ve gotten lost in our thoughts. She must think we have trouble with zoning out. She’s not necessarily wrong, I guess.

[madame-verte]

“Ours does not promise to go down in literary history as a great age of religious poetry. Yet if contemporary poetry is not often religious, it is still intensely, covertly metaphysical. Human nature, it seems, compels us to keep asking about the first things, even if we no longer accept the same answers that our ancestors did, or even the same kind of answers. The more widely you read, in fact, the clearer it becomes that our poetry has a distinctive metaphysics, a set of principles or intuitions held in common by poets as different as Seamus Heaney, Charles Simic, and Billy Collins. This metaphysical sensibility, I think, is what will give our period a retrospective unity, when readers of the future come to survey what looks to us like chaos."

- Adam Kirsch, from the piece “The Taste of Silence”, read at Poetry Foundation.                                                

[jewishicequeen]

You know what?

It's wishful thinking, but lets get Purim trending this year.

Let's all make it, be big and loud and impossible to ignore. Let's flaunt our costumes, brag with our food, share our joy. Let's try to turn this website upside down.

Let's admit it, Purim fits the Tumblr spirit. Let's put it everywhere for one day(two days)

Let's make the holiday all about Jewish survival and celebration of our joy big.

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

The most interesting thing about the upcoming ‘Hunger Games’ book ‘Sunrise On The Reaping’ is that Israel bombed 40 children at a UN school in central Gaza last night.

[soaringwide]

Pick a Card: What makes you feel alive and inspired in life?

PILE 1 🩷 > PILE 2 🩵 > PILE 3 ❤️

We are all driven by different things, and it's easy to lose track of that when you are distracted by the noise of the world.

Today, I want to look at what lights up your spark, what makes you feel alive and inspired in life.

Whether you want to simply get to know yourself better, or get a little reassurance in a difficult time, this reading is meant to be empowering and uplifting, and help you remember what makes life feel soulful for you.

Remember that this is a general reading meant for many people. Take what resonates and leave out the rest. Never forget that you are the leader of your own life and you make the call on what you want to do, believe and think, or not.

If you like my style, feel free to check out my paid readings on ko-fi or the link bellow.

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PILE 1 🩷

Cards: The River, Ace of Cups, Judgement, the Devil, the Hermit, 3 of Pentacles

Life is a flowing journey for all, but you take it to heart.

You feel the most alive and inspired when you embrace what the great current of life brings to you in order to wash away the decaying parts of yourself and shed your old skin.

To you, life is all about transforming yourself. The Existential Grindstone putting pressure on what needs to change and forcing you to be born anew. You do not like being stagnant, for murky waters poison your sense of purpose. You like movement within yourself, and knowing that you are always growing, always learning and expanding.

You are not scared to go into the depths of yourself to face your own limitations and shortcomings. There is a humming in your heart, a whisper calling for change. You are an eternal student of life, dedicated to becoming a better person and experiencing life in its purest form: as a journey toward yourself. There is a well of patience and a vivid energy in you, merging wisdom gained from experience and the pure heart of youth.

There is a subnote about healing here, and I think, one some level, you feel the most soulful when you manage to shift things within you and witness the metamorphosis happening within yourself, so that you can sooth your pains and let go of the past. I see you being hyper aware of the darker or heavier aspects of yourself, and you are not scared of them because you know that within them lie the opportunity to bring more light, to expand and rise above. To break the chains stopping you from feeling truly alive.

I also believe that you wish for a fairer world, and that you know that it all start with yourself. And while appearing very in tune with your deeper self, which implies holding the most tender part of yourself secret, I know that you do not lose sight of the world around you, and that by building yourself, you can help build a better world too.

You will feel unaligned with life when you swim against the current. The world is a river carrying you and connecting us all, and in this life, you will feel the most alive and inspired when you accept to flow with it, to let events and people shape you, helping you build yourself, helping you write your own unique story.

PILE 2 🩵

Cards: The Castle, Death, 4 of Wands, the Lovers, Page of Pentacles, 10 of Cups

For this pile, I'm getting that you are well aware of the illusions of materialism and consumerism, and that you don't want to get lured in by dulling comfort and shiny luxuries. Most people accumulate things to build walls around them and to fill the void inside their soul, and it is possible that you were like that at some point, but you realized it led nowhere and embraced a deep change of your way of living and experiencing life.

I think your soul craves simplicity and honest connections with people, and that you feel the most alive when you manage to break away from the decadence of our post modern way of living next to each other (rather than truly together) and obsession with accumulating senseless things. "Why do we constantly need more, and when is more ever enough?" Could be a pretty significant idea for you and something your draw inspiration from.

You see this issue clearly and feel inspired by the dream of a more authentic and open world, and world that you could share with people you love and cherish.

It's like you want life to be a great party where everyone is equal and we all have enough to live and love freely, and when you manage to dive into that, do your part on your level, you feel invigorated, inspired and alive. It's also possible that you seek situations that encourage this feeling and feel inspired by that. Little moments of truth stolen from the surrounding madness that you see in the world.

I think connecting with people, from friends and family to heartfelt exchanges with strangers, is so important to you and make you feel soulful, and I see you either dreaming to have your own love nest (family of any kind, or community), or already having it and feeling the happiest when you can share these simple and authentic moments with your loved ones.

Life is a gift to be experienced with others, what is the point of living if only for yourself?

PILE 3 ❤️

Cards: The King, the Magician, 10 of Cups, 4 of Cups, 7 of Wands, Ace of Wands, Strength

You are someone who feels the most alive when you can lead the way and leverage your influence, skills and knowledge for the greater good and happiness of those around you.

You have a strong and proud soul, a regal heart and you know you can do lot of good with your positive influence, be it by protecting, leading or inspiring others to do more and better.

You are highly motivated and dedicated to make your wishes happen in the world. You feel highly stimulated when you are pushed to overcome struggles and obstacles, when you can rise above and prove yourself. You are highly resilient and will not let others make you feel small and weak. On the contrary, I think that inspires you to expand and become a greater version of yourself.

For you, time spent waiting passively for life to bring you what you want is wasted time. You find indecision and uncertainty distasteful and always strive to become more. The world will not open its doors for you if you do nothing, and you find that extremely stimulating and it gives you a sense of purpose that make you feel alive.

You might be someone who collects hobbies and passion because you enjoy learning and expanding your range of skills. You feel the most alive when you feel busy and can work hard on something you set your mind to. You want to be a master at many things, and you enjoy the process of reaching that point more than the actual end of the journey.

You want to be able to show the world all that you have accomplished, and it's pushing you forward and keeping your inspired.

[r-aindr0p]

No.

Love this event, but I will never forget this offense, bracing myself for when I'll have to read that again

[jinstronaut]

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, love it happy birthday @jkvjimin 💜 (cr. namuspromised)

[lialox]

It's outside of my genre and definitely something I've never written before. But I every couple of months I get an urge to write a torture fic.

Specifically of KDJ.

Torturer's personal challenge of making him feel it despite the [Fourth Wall] offsetting his pain and physical shock.

Torturer has a skill that can enhance an already active skill.

Bonus points if KDJ is delirious by the end of it but he still. Can't. Faint.

Ideally the torturer should be one of his companions, who's forgotten about him.

Like, the ORV epilogue with a twist vibes somehow.

I want him opened up viscerally. His body is made up of stories and he is a man who refuses to open up. I want to see those fable fragments carved out of him with a scalpel. That blade needs to pierce his flesh and slice out the things he doesn't want revealed sentence by bloody sentence.

I want them thrown to Yoo Junghyuk tied up in the corner and make him read every cringey, embarrassing, idolizing thing written on them

Then I want Yoo Junghyuk to lap at his sentences like a dog.

I want him to taste those stories KDJ never wanted anyone to see. I want KDJ to watch him eat it. KDJ will watch YJK slowly descend into fits of insanity because in ORV's worldbuilding, incarnations are not supposed to eat stories.

Oh, should HSY be the torturer?

Maybe she lost her memories from some function of the avatar skill, idk.

Nah that's boring. Scrap the whole idea above. YJK is the torturer. It's juicier if he snaps back to reality (oh! there goes gravity!) at the end of the story and realizes he 'failed to protect what he was supposed to protect'. The last line of the story should be [Fable, 'Life and Death Companions', is continuing its storytelling.] somehow because its important that KDJ makes it out of this alive and its important that he remembers every brutal scene and it needs to be immortalized in the storytelling of their companionship.

I could make it doksoo but it would be HSY getting tortured unfortunately.

[reineydraws]

same ship, different font ☠️🔥

[kentopedia]

since i've seen others talking about this, as someone who writes predominately lengthy fics (5k+ words), what annoys me the most is that i've seen so many people on tumblr & tiktok specifically say "i hate when writers have too much build-up and don't get straight to the smut, i just skip to it." ???? writers spend HOURS on pieces like that, and to find out you don't really care is very disheartening & is quite literally going to kill not only writing on these platforms but literature as a whole

[dearabsolutelynoone]

“She is attractive, though," Bute said. "Her face was most pleasing."

"Yes, of course," Augusta agreed. "But she is very brown."

George opened his eyes. That was unexpected. "The earth is brown," he said.

"What," his mother said after a pause, “does that have to do with anything?"

"I love the earth," George said, thinking that explanation enough. (…) “The earth is brown," George said again. "That which springs all life, all hope. It is brown. It is lovely."

Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes, Queen Charlotte

[mushtoons]

i love seeing people in my notifications its so much fun to look at people's pfp and blog like yes the boiled one reblogged one of my posts or justin bieber offering me a rat is sending me good vibes its like people watching but online

[rapidhighway]

the illness where i draw a comic out of context about an au that i dont want to explain to anyone but it comes out good so i want to share it anyway. this illness is killing and destroying me. i changed the dialogue so its silly