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jondrettegirls · 2 years

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The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Antigone - Jean Anhouilh (Tr. Lewis Galantière) | Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#id in alt text #on my own.#do you know what you are dying for.#to break what has to be broken.#ismene #antigone #raskolnikov #now that ive read c&p i reallyyy wanna read brothers karamazov but. i need to take a break from classics #or else my brain will blow up #also i dont need to read rn anyway i need to write . el oh el #quotes #classics #classic lit #crime and punishment #fyodor dostoevsky #the brothers karamazov #rodion romanovich raskolnikov #rodya raskolnikov #quoteblr

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stuckinapril · 6 months

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i love anthologies. anthologies are so sexy

#in an alternate world where im an english lit major the norton anthology of english lit is my bible #it's by no means an exhaustive overview but i really love how everything is in its neat timeline #and you get a general vibe for how literature was back then as opposed to just going in blind. u see how everything influences everything #a major (maybe a bit irrational?) fear i have is i come out of a book w superficial understanding #and while that has contributed to unfortunate reading slumps i do also like this trait of me #where i am actually focused on giving a book/period of time the respect it deserves vs just reading it flippantly #i like doing my silly little pre-read of a period of time/author before jumping into it #i don't do pre-reads for everything but there are books where i find it necessary to prime my brain for absorbing them #and anthologies are good for that #and they're also a good resource for investigating authors whose vibe sits right w u.#or for knowing the general quaintessential authors of a certain genre of lit #i also love poetry anthologies #the commentary comparing/contrasting certain authors is also rly interesting to me . ok i'll shut up now #p

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oatbugs · 1 day

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procrastination is starting to have its consequences finally

#on my friends living room floor they love together but one of them has been london for weeks or maybe months #to be with her love. im on a foam mattress from one of their beds next to a glass bottle of water opened by one of them #in a mug given to me by another. the weather felt like my childhood today and it also felt like 2 years ago.#(put space in the heavens Einstein's idea and hes your friend too so nothing to fear) around the table they drank and laughed and i thought #i hope you keep growing so full with the love you receive . i hope your appetite becomes insatiable from how used to it you are #and i know youre all leaving soon but i hope one day you miss this and that youll be happy you miss it #its worth missing i think #i thought he didnt care but he said after exams hes going walk around this area over and over #(this is near where he lived and where we visited almost daily for a year)#(hed come across the bridge on a lake)#we went where she used to live and at the entrance a fox sat calmly. it just yawned and stared.#it felt important somehow. i think maybe their impressions of me will never be close to how i feel inside but i think #i love them enough for that not to matter. i dont think theyll ever know this. i dont think if they did it would change much.#and seeing them smile makes my heart glow anyway. today i tried their malaysian tea the ginger burned my throat #they warmed my heart. hes going to canada soon and hes going to the US soon and shes going everywhere soon ill never understand #how were supposed to live with memories and with seperation and with the past but we do it anyway so i think it doesnt matter much #i wanted to write a poem for the lab rats with the fibre optic wires lit with blue forcing them to turn around and around #something about how im sorry that the two photon arrays burned the inside of your brain. im sorry about the sharp points of multielectrode #arrayes. im sorry about everything we do to you. she asked to see me tomorrow. im trying to have self control but i miss her so awfully #last night my friend talked to me and i updated on everything that happened with love and the lack of it and she just started laughing #and she told me about the same thing from her side. and she told me about how she loved london because she would walk the streets #and she felt like the people were her. and her eyes would go over the people and the bag of bagels and the construction men they probably #have a kid at home maybe shes a daughter. this kid is crying for her mother and the building you just walked past caused #blisters and pain and people died in it and very likely people were born in it. we talked for hours and i felt like #i was holding her hand just like that time she held mine watching a horror film. i love her so much #my friend is a genius and i remember her picking up the charms of my phone and staring at the leaf hanging from them. shes side stepping to #music drinking dangerous cider and cocktails from a movie and chit chatting with billionaires and undergrads #i love her dearly. his head covered in electrodes. she tells me about a syrian guy shes in love with and she says #what you feel and what i feel is like cocaine. ive tried a lot of fucking cocaine.#she says ive reminded her of what living actually feels like and to never put energy into someone who doesnt see me this way.

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boyghcst · 18 days

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I rlly wanna be able to not smoke weed but I just dunno if I can honestly. Like I’ve been sober maybe for a week or two before last year and I felt happy w myself I went that long but I also was in England visiting my family so I didn’t have any left to smoke anyway

#but I just struggle to stop #I end up smoking again and bc all my friends smoke i can’t say no bc i like getting high and doing it w my friends #but i lit smoke everyday even when I’m out i end up hanging w friends and smoking #it’s prob been like 3/4 years now I’ve been smoking #ik its not good for my body or mind #I do kinda wish there was somewhere I could go like a local MA bc I do rlly struggle #but it’s like part of me is just too scared to be sober and have to deal w thoughts and anxiety and depression etc #I am visiting my mum and stepdad again soon so I’m planning to only bring a little and then try detox #but I just know it’ll end up smoking again when I get back and hang w friends #and it’s not their fault or anything I haven’t communicated it and I don’t think I will bc ik deep down tht would cut it off completely #like I technically could delete my dealers numbers but then ik ill end up asking for them again bc I just do tht #I’m so bad at saying no and being impulsive and making bad decisions it’s like my brain just dgaf #idk how ppl do it fr #I don’t believe when ppl say weed isn’t addictive tbh bc it defo has been for me #journal

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ilynpilled · 10 months

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I think one of the biggest things I enjoy about your particular theories is that you're almost always bringing contextual evidence to back it up. You're referencing the themes, referencing the patterns, referencing the book itself to prove your ideas. It's like if someone has in an AP English club, like writing papers for fun, and that's what really elevates this shit.

thank you this is extremely sweet. it is just how i was taught so i cant do it in any other way. it was hammered into my head pretty hard, and i do notice fandom not really following the “rules” of literary analysis, which is fine. but like i feel a need to structure my analysis and use quotes the way i do, also i do like to focus on literary devices + always look at the text holistically. i am insufferably lit brained sadly it was my fave class in high school. i also just love finding and dissecting patterns so so much and george is obsessed with writing them so

#ask #ur compliments are so sweet guys but if u all keep setting me up shhdjs #not doing lit anymore #i took hl ib lit which is college course like? but it is pretty specific in how its designed idk im not familiar with american systems #i think the primary difference is that we didnt really focus on english lit #like not british/american centric ib has to be international lit #my lit teacher still my fav teacher oat i love u mrs hughes u r the realest #i do actually find literary analysis very fun #most ppl fucking hated it but for me it was always the most fun and the easiest again i think its just how my brain works it likes doing it

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electrosweaters-arts · 2 years

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Ok so,,,Cryptid College is like,,,,imagine if there was Jekyll and Hyde,,,but everyone's REALLY stupid

YouTube version of this Here: X

#you might say oh no Uttersons smart he has the brain cell of this group #no he doesnt hes the dumbest one he just went to class one time and is regurgitating information #dr jekyll and mr hyde #dr jekyll #henry jekyll #jekyll and hyde #Gabriel John Utterson #mr utterson #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #gothic literature #goth lit #digital art #drawing #character design #cryptid college stuff #cryptid college #Jekylls face looks so fucked up with his eyebags when i draw expressions with squished eyes ignore it its silly #my art

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crawley-fell · 4 months

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greetings brainrot series curator, "Glad You Came" (specifically the We Came As Romans version) is sounding very aziracrow rn

A truly chaotic choice. Lethal brainrot. Also, specifying an emo club mix? Inspired, I love it.

#thank you miri this has lit up every part of my brain #ask #brainrot series requests

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pikachugirltits · 1 year

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Me for years: I think anthro art is neat, but I don't really consider myself a furry because I've never found an animal that makes me go "that's me, that's my fursona."

My brain yesterday out of nowhere: Hey, what if your fursona was a transgirl Pikachu, with the square shaped tail that male Pikachu have to highlight that she's specifically a transgirl.

Me:

#oops I'm a furry now #there's a part of my brain that's telling me it's cringe to have a Pokemon fursona #but I'm trying to not let myself listen to that part of my brain #I've been joking with my roommates that I'm only reluctantly admitting I'm a furry #but it feels like something has clicked all over again and I'm actually excited to figure out this part of myself #like the moment I started picturing this character something unexpected lit up in my brain and now I can't get rid of her #(not that I want to)#alexis rambles on

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nedlittle · 1 year

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i read a total of 12 books (36% of my yearly goal). i did not finish the girl on the velvet swing: sex, murder, and madness at the dawn of the twentieth century by simon baatz [explanation]. my favourite was a little devil in america: notes in praise of black performance by hanif abdurraqib and my least favourite was manhunt by gretchen felker-martin.

full breakdown of star ratings and reviews under the cut 🖊📚

four treasures of the sky by jenny tingui zhang 3⭐ [historical] [review]

a will to kill (harith athreya #1) by r.v. raman 2.25⭐ [mystery] [review]

young man with a horn by dorothy baker 3.25⭐ [classics] [review]

dark archives: a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin by megan rosenbloom 2.75⭐ [history, science] [review]

nona the ninth (locked tomb #3) by tamsyn muir 3⭐ [space fantasy, queer] [review]

totempole by sanford friedman 3.25⭐ [classics, queer] [review]

a little devil in america: notes in praise of black performance by hanif abdurraqib 5⭐ [essays, art] [review]

the master key by masako togawa (tr. simon grove) 2⭐ [crime, classics] [review]

olivia by dorothy strachey 3.5⭐[classics, queer] [review]

manhunt by gretchen felker-martin 1.75⭐ [horror, queer] [review]

in the vanisher's palace by aliette de bodard 2.75⭐ [fantasy, queer, romance] [review]

jonny appleseed by joshua whitehead 4⭐[contemporary, queer] [review]

#reading wrap up #bookblr #lit #sometimes i make stuff #scribbles #lifeblogging #I KNOW IT'S ALMOST JUNE I KNOW #my brain has been consumed by an antiwar sitcom from the 70s it's a miracle this is done at all #this year has been sooo underwhelming so far. i'm whelmed at best girl what is in the water #congrats to manhunt for being my first 1-star of the year though that's an achievement! a bad one! but still an achievement!

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afishcalledwanda1988 · 1 year

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luv to write a final essay that is barely related to the class like hellooooo professor here is an 8 pg draft of my paper doing a reading of one of the provided texts using a framework that is not really related to anything we've discussed. unfortunately you didnt feed me any post-colonial theory so i got BORED and made some myself. also sorry im still so bad at indirect vs direct object pronouns. now give me 100% grade please and thanku.

#unfortunately early modern spanish lit is bad for my brain #so im doing a historiographical reframing of one of columbus' letters from 1492. he was barely even literate in spanish ❤️#this is the longest essay ive ever written in spanish tho and tbh im quite proud of myself #hopefully he has some helpful feedback bc the final paper is minimum 12 pages and idk how to write another 4 pages based on what i have #anyways !! finals comin up wahoo #?.txt

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banannabethchase · 1 year

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I'm finally able to listen to the new Fall Out Boy lyrics and BOY HOWDY was I not ready to be bodied by, "I'm pretty sure as humans go/I'm a hard, hard pill to swallow/And I know I'm not your intended dose."

#OUCH OUCH OUCH #STOP IT #STOP MAKING ME CONFRONT THE FACT THAT I WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE THAT PERSON FOR THAT PERSON EVER #stop IT #FALL OUT BOY #oh fuck almighty stupid words making me SAD #ALSO I HATE MY BRAIN BECAUSE I JUST RELATED IT TO SOMETHING I SHOULDN'T HAVE AND NOW I MADE MYSELF SAD #not to mention 'everything is lit except my serotonin'#This album has fucked me up and it's been less than 12 hours

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lit-in-thy-heart · 11 months

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coming to the conclusion that trying to write fic again might make me feel more confident in my own abilities when it comes to other writing

#recently what i've been working on has felt very basic and very flat #and mainly hasn't been wording as much as i would have liked #whether that's because it genuinely is bad or i'm getting very in my head about it #i think trying to write without the pressure of 'every sentence must be sensational' could do me good #also i feel like i am doing what my creative writing tutor warned me of last year and being very imagery-heavy #and using some of that energy up in fics might create a bit more of a balance #basically lads i think it's time i checked in with myself and tried to take action now #before the inevitable spiral of 'i'm a terrible writer and i've lost my touch' begins #also it's been nearly 9 months since i last published anything #...whoops #work just really hit me hard apparently and the fic brain still hasn't recovered #but anyway #this has been a little self-talk #we vibin #we plottin #ish #there are half-formed thoughts #personal #lit talks

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thesaintofnevergettingitright · 1 year

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Sometimes you think to yourself “I wonder how much fanfic I read last year,” and then you black out for 48 hours and wake up having created multiple spreadsheets, three graphs, and an entire powerpoint presentation.

We’ve all been there, am I right?