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lieu42 · 3 months
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once i finish my current book i will have read 2300 pages in december. Which is kind of epic. If i do say so myself
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nietzschey · 7 months
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Complete Works
Franz Kafka
Before the Law
An Imperial Message
Description of a Struggle
Wedding Preparations in the Country
In the Penal Colony
The Judgement
The Metamorphosis
The Village Schoolmaster
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
The Warden of the Tomb
- Continue when read
Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
Demons
- All works
Agatha Christie
- All works
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- All works
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Philosophers:
Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy
The Gay Science
The Genealogy of Morals
The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: Or How to Philosophize with a Hammer
Thus Spoken Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Representation
The Wisdom of Life
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
Studies in Pessimism
Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Stranger
The Fall
The Plague
The Rebel
The First Man
Between Hell and Reason
Kant
Introduction to Logic
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Critique of Pure Reason
Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason
Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
What is Enlightenment?
Hegel
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Phenomenology of Spirit
Absolute Spirit
Science of Logic
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
William James
The Principles of Psychology
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Essays in Radical Empiricism
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Philosophies
Moral Nihilism
The Moral Fool
The Evolution of Morality
Ethics of Ambiguity
Beyond Morality
Essays in Moral Skepticism
Abolishing Morality
Morality: The Final Delusion?
Metaphysical Nihilism
The Overcoming of Metaphysics
Metaphysics and Nihilism
Existential Nihilism
Existentialism is a Humanism
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
Macbeth
Being and Nothingness
Political Nihilism
An Introduction to Political Philosophy
Political Philosophy: Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism
Positive Nihilism
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
A Tale for the Time Being
John Dies at the End
Epistemological Nihilism
Nihilism's Epistemology, Ontology, and Its God
Absurdism
The Trial
Nausea
Slaughterhouse Five
Waiting for Godot
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Fatalism
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Wide Sargasso Sea
No Longer Human
Sapiens
Cat’s Cradle
Antinatalism
The Denial of Death
The Human Predicament
Every Cradle a Grave
Better Never to Have Been - The Harm of Coming into Existence
Misc.
Medieval Philosophy
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Classics
The Catcher in the Rye
The Grapes of Wrath
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Great Gatsby
The Crucible
The Bell Jar
The Yellow Wallpaper
A Clockwork Orange
A Room of One's Own
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Thousand and One Nights
Of Mice and Men
As I Lay Dying
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Where the Red Fern Grows
Flowers for Algernon
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Wuthering Heights
Moby Dick
Little Women
Death of a Salesman
Beloved
Don Quixote
Diary of a Madman
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
I, Robot
Catch 22
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Religious
The Apocrypha
The Summa Theologica
The Divine Comedy
The Epic of Gilgamesh
City of God
Angelology
The Occult
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Books to reread
The Odyssey
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Scarlet Letter
The Time Machine
The Invisible Man
The Secret Garden
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ten Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Alice in Wonderland
Gulliver's Travels
Dracula
Frankenstein
Books I’ve completed
The Screwtape Letters
The Art of War
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
1984
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grandhotelabyss · 5 months
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Jumping off your comment on Substack that Poe invented avant-garde poetry and pulp fiction, and Jane Austen invented romance fiction, what other authors invented genres? What was the most recent genre invented?
I was being deliberately provocative with that statement. Often it's hard to name a single inventor. Why are all these genres invented in the last three centuries? Because of print culture and mass literacy's explosion of discourse. Back before the printing press and mass literacy, you didn't need that many genres; tragedy, comedy, epic, and romance were enough. And most modern genres are, as critics like Northrop Frye would insist, developments of these. (Austen writes comedy; Poe writes romance.) But still, with so many more opportunities to create, more is created, so a few further generalizations can be made. Walter Scott invented the historical novel at the same time as Poe and Austen were inventing everything else. And though I credited Austen with the realist novel in its modern form, Balzac had a hand in that, too, turning Scott's approach to the past as living continuum onto the present itself. Plenty of authors invent sub-genres of broader genres. Poe gives us modern horror in general by modernizing the Gothic, itself devised as the return of modernity's repressed by Walpole and Radcliffe, in the same way that Austen modernizes the domestic sentimental novel of Richardson and Rousseau by synthesizing it with the comic epic of Fielding. These innovations flow into others, from the realistic novel of ideas in George Eliot, the proto-modernist novel of consciousness in Henry James on Austen's side to the further techno-modernizations of the Gothic in Stoker, Stevenson, and eventually Lovecraft on Poe's. The superhero is invented in the 20th century out of pulp influences, synthesizing the Poe-like detective (itself a romance derivative: the modern knight-errant) with Wellsian science-fiction scenarios (themselves descended from the romance's enchanted landscapes); the inventors here, not quite literary or artistic geniuses, are Siegel and Shuster, who probably would have cited Hercules and Samson. Going back to high literature, the bildungsroman is invented in the 18th century as the epic itinerary of the modern soul in an alien society: Defoe and Fielding, Rousseau and Goethe. The bildungsroman becomes the existential novel in the late 19th century, often mediated by Poe's own influence, his injection of the immobilizing irrational into the narrative of development, as with Notes from Underground, and flowing from there into Hamsun, Camus, Sartre, Dazai, Ellison, and into the present. Dostoevsky more than anyone else can also perhaps also be credited with the novel of ideas, though, as I said, George Eliot provides a stabler English version. The synthesizers and the inventors, the last and the first, can be hard to tell apart. Austen and Poe stand at the end as well as at the beginning of traditions, each looking back to the ruins of an older order. Walter Benjamin: "every great work founds a genre or dissolves one." These two gestures are the same gesture. In Ulysses we find Austen's domestic realism and rational psychology fused with Poe's formalism and irrational psychology at the apotheosis of modern fiction and the birth of the 20th-century novel. Kafka and Borges each come out of Poe's innovation to create something new and indefinable we are still living with, still annotating, still working on, too "still in it" to quite name it. Woolf is unimaginable without Austen, yet not quite deducible from Austen, and still a regulating influence. It's an infinite topic. As for the most recent genres and their inventors, someone younger than me will have to answer; go ahead, tell me to read One Piece; tell me to play video games; you won't be the first.
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applestorms · 11 months
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more random thoughts:
“Neither sight itself nor that in which it comes to be—what we call the eye—is the sun.”
“Surely not.”
“But I suppose it is the most sunlike of the organs of the senses.”
“Yes, by far.”
“Doesn’t it get the power it has as a sort of overflow from the sun’s treasury?”
“Most certainly.”
“And the sun isn’t sight either, is it, but as its cause is seen by sight itself?”
“That’s so,” he said.
“Well, then,” I said, “say that the sun is the offspring of the good I mean—an offspring the good begot in a proportion with itself: as the good is in the intelligible region with respect to intelligence and what is intellected, so the sun is in the visible region with respect to sight and what is seen.”
(plato's republic book VI, 509a-b, bloom translation)
possible alternative to the gnostic view on light that i usually see the light aspect being attributed to? similar basic idea maybe but different conception, not sure how far this could go yet. makes the most sense for rose considering her class but idk. irl i've been trying to piece together more of a connection between plato's Goodness and the Dao (in the context of the daodejing & confucianism both; also maybe the white horse dialogue but good lord i don't think i really understand that one well enough to really relate it to anything else properly) but i wonder if that kind of metaphysics can be applied to the homestuck aspects too. i vaguely (?) remember seeing a video on that a long ass time ago but i don't remember who it was by, maybe i should find that again and see if i understand it better??
kind of endeared by the fact that rose's first messages to dave directly accuse him of being gay (333), that's one plotline that actually lasts from beginning to end. also a lot his really iconic rants are super early in the comic, which ig makes sense (e.g. planet fucking jupiter, oliver twist, minivan, etc).
if anyone else actually reads these, the sartre no exit/alpha kids crossover is formally a wip now. really hoping i can commit to that long enough to finish it, it's been fun so far cause i think i've gotten jake's voice figured out decently well, though i definitely need to review jane a bit more in canon to make sure i'm not accidentally turning her into a second jake. probably still going to take a while regardless, i've got Shit to Do this weekend. if you can figure out which kids stand in for which characters in the original i love you btw
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penguins-united · 1 year
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Books read in 2022!!
rereads are italicized, favorites are bolded
1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
2. Boxers by Gene Luen Yang
3. Saints by Gene Luen Yang
4. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
6. Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams
7. Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway
8. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
9. Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix by JK Rowling
10. The Dead by James Joyce
11. Soldiers Three by Richard Kipling
12. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
13. Richard iii by William Shakespeare
14. Balcony of Fog by Rich Shapiro
15. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
16. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
17. I have no mouth and I must scream by Harlan Ellison
18. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
19. The moment before the gun went off by Nadine Gordimer
20. The importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde
21. A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway
22. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
23. Rules for a knight by Ethan Hawke
24. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
25. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
27. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
28. Highly Irregular by Arika Okrent
29. The Green Mile by Stephen King
30. The Swan Riders by Erin Bow
31. The King’s English by Henry Watson Fowler
32. The Truelove by Patrick O’Brian
33. The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
34. The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O’Brian
35. The Commodore by Patrick O’Brian
36. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
37. Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
38. The Disaster Area by JG Ballard
39. The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi
40. Wicked Saints by Emily A Duncan
41. The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
42. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
43. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
44. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
45. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
46. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
47. A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
48. Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner
49. Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
50. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
51. Confessions of St. Augustine by St. Augustine of Hippo
52. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
53. The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O’Brian
54. Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
55. The Russian Assassin by Jack Arbor
56. The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin
57. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
58. The Iliad by Homer
59. The Treadstone Transgression by Joshua Hood
60. The Hundred Days by Patrick O’Brian
61. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard
62. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
63. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
64. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (unknown)
65. Persuasion by Jane Austen
66. The Outsiders by SE Hinton
67. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
68. The Odyssey by Homer
69. Dead Cert by Dick Francis
70. The Oresteia by Aeschylus
71. The Network Effect by Martha Wells
72. All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell
73. This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar
74. The Epic of Gilgamesh (unknown author)
75. The Republic by Plato
76. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
77. On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
78. Ere the Cock Crows by Jens Bjornboe
79. Mid-Bloom by Katie Budris
80. Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O’Brian
81. 21 by Patrick O’Brian
82. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
83. Battle Cry by Leon Uris
84. Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
85. The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
86. The Door in the Wall by HG Wells
87. Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad by MR James
88. The Birds and Don’t Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier
89. The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher
90. Blackout by Simon Scarrow
91. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
92. No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
93. The Open Society and its Enemies volume one by Karl Popper
94. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
95. The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
96. The Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease
97. The things they carried by Tim O’Brien
98. A very very very dark matter by Martin McDonagh
99. The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A Hayek
100. The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh
101. A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh
102. The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh
103. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
104. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
105. The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth
106. Things have gotten worse since we last spoke and other misfortunes by Eric LaRocca
107. Each thing I show you is a piece of my death by Gemma Files
108. Different Seasons by Stephen King
109. Dracula by Bram Stoker
110. Inker and Crown by Megan O’Russell
111. Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis
112. Killers by Patrick Hodges
113. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
114. The Rise and Reign of Mammals by Stephen Brusatte
115. Any Means Necessary by Jack Mars
116. The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
117. In A Glass Darkly by J Sheridan le Fanu
118. Collected Poems by Edward Thomas
119. The Longer Poems by TS Eliot
120. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
121. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
122. The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
123. Choice of George Herbert’s verse by George Herbert
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earhartsease · 1 year
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Marilyn Monroe was sanctioned by the studios for having a romance that led to marriage with one of the most famous artists who stood up to the HUAC, the one and only Arthur Miller (pictured here behind Marilyn) she was also fined and sanctioned by Fox for her friendships with BIPOC women (which until the 1960s was a violation of the ethics clause of white people under contract to studios) and for being seen in public "unattended" with Black men (I guess that means without a white man guarding you). Her support of Black artists like Ella Fitzgerald is legendary. After her brief period of dating Marlon Brando they remained friends and she met with Brando multiple times to discuss using their power to increase opportunities for features seriously dealing with racism and economic injustice. She had by the end of her life become fascinated with the theoretical writings of Leon Trotsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Walter Benjamin.
Marilyn's decision to create a production company in 1954 was a direct influence on Henry Fonda making the decision to go outside the studio system to produce 12 ANGRY MEN with his own money. He cited having conversations with her as a chief reason he risked his own money (and studio wrath) to produce the film. Marilyn's decision was a direct inspiration for the legendary actresses of 1970s (Jane Fonda, Barbara Streisand, Goldie Hawn, Ellen Burstyn, Faye Dunaway, etc.) to take matters into their own hands and develop production companies to produce their own material.
You would not know ANY OF THIS from watching Andrew Dominick's torture porn exploitation film BLONDE. Marilyn Monroe was not a sad, lonely, confused victim she was a complicated, remarkably well-read, intellectually curious, resilient artist. Her early death whether the result of suicide, overdose or assassination remains a devastatingly tragic event in American popular culture.
Do yourself a favor and spend some time watching her films.
- Craig Harshaw
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@captaincarriekathryncoffee :D
I'm going to try to write all my thoughts before I go to work, but if I don't get them all written, I will finish the post tonight.
Garak picked that book, Maze: a riddle in words and pictures. That book is insufferable. My mom gave me a copy when I was in my early teens and it enraged me. I don't think it's possible to solve. If it is, I don't have to patience to solve it. Garak would revel in that chaos and watch the arguments unfurl.
Julian chooses Shakespeare, Jean Paul Sartre, and things like that. He's a big fan of old earth plays. When he doesn't pick those, he picks novels by Kurt Vonnegut and spends the whole discussion gushing about what he likes about them.
O'Brien also likes old earth books, but more of the sci-fi variety. Think Neuromancer, Brave New World, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Sort of the quintessential, you've mentioned twentieth century sci-fi, these are the books that people are talking about genre.
Jadzia reads a variety of different things, so her choices are the most varied of anyone in the group. You can't live for several lifetimes and not find favorite books of all genres. She likes memoirs of people who live interesting or strange lives; the ones that come to mind are the books of Jenny Lawson or Samantha Irby.
Sisko picks Edith Wharton and Jane Austen novels. He loves that they're written in such a different time, giving him a feeling of almost nostalgia for a time he was unable to experience. Also, he appreciates a good love story.
Kira picks angry feminist/queer literature and only angry feminist/queer literature. In secret, she also reads queer romances, but she's not going to tell anyone that. The discussion on Her Body and Other Parties was intense.
Odo is that stereotypical "man" (though I think odo is nonbinary) who reads mostly nonfiction, but sincerely does enjoy Kira's picks, and some of Julian's existentialist fiction. He tried to approach Garak's maze book logically. It descended into chaos anyway. He likes to make playlists for each of the books he reads, probably using something like Spotify. He stubbornly refuses to pay for premium to avoid ads and instead says that ads keep people humble. If he's really proud of a playlist, he might show it to Kira, but otherwise, he listens to them while in his soup form.
Quark picks novels that are long and pretentious and then he listens to podcasts about them so he can steal other people's talking points and not have to read the book but still come across as very intelligent.
I think that's all I can write before work. Would you like a part two? Or thoughts on what any other characters would read? I have a lot of next gen thoughts and I can think about this while working tonight.
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shcherbatskya · 2 years
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Who would you invite to a dinner party, living or dead? (I'm genuinely curious now after seeing your post lmao)
OMG HI HI HI <3 so im laying out ground rules first to establish a control system to get that out of the way. there’s gotta be a universal translator. i have a very limited knowledge of latin and that’s kind of a bridge language but only for a certain period of history. so i want to be able to understand everyone. no one can kill each other (or me!) this is very important. keeping all debates verbal. this is also a casual dinner party like we are friends, not a formal ordeal, or a glorified socratic seminar.
rules out of the way i can get into it. i’ll try and go chronologically (newest to oldest), but i don’t know dates sooo well so i might fudge it a little bit. okay. mike duncan, my history teacher from last year, and steven saylor are my mediators pretty much, i wouldn’t want this to get out of hand. i don’t really have a theme for this one (i could go insane thinking of themed dinner party guests if you want to keep me occupied for a few hours.) so im just going with whoever. oh also tom stoppard. okay i don’t even really care about modern people other than those four listed, so im already moving back. jean paul sartre, simone de beauvoir, and albert camus (the existential polycule.) are all my modern philosophers. to add some intellectual conversation and also relationship drama. back again! i know nothing of people here in this era (ww1/ww2) thar i would want to invite to my party so. going back further. billy the kid (no killing people rule important here!) for my american west moment, further back i invite Robespierre and lafayette. I FORGOT ABOUT RASPUTIN HES HERE TOO.
even further back from there; (we’re in like renaissance-ey times now.) this is where i start to go crazy. my dear dear friends the philosophers/writers; shakespeare, dante, da vinci, petrarch, and descartes (so i can debate him and win.) the rulers: mary queen of scots, catherine howard, and lady jane gray. and joan of arc just because i think she’s sooo cool. also Benedetta Carlini thee lesbian nun. now it’s medieval times. umm. Peter Abelard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil, empress theodora, and Geoffrey Chaucer.
NOW ITS ANCIENT TIMES AND IM GOING FULLY INSANE. elagabalus, augustus, and agrippa, for leaders from the roman empire. and oh no it’s the republic… cicero because i think he would hate me and it would be funny, clodia because she’s my bestie beloved, mark antony because he’s LITERALLY fun at parties, cleopatra, mark antony’s boy bestie curio, yk what just for giggles julius caesar can come too also for giggles sulla can also be there. those are all my political figures now im getting into the arts. (read: poets.) ovid, he’s my dear friend, vergil, catullus, tibullus, sulpicia (BOTH of them.), and lucan.
further back than that! sappho of course can also come, homer can come too but only if he tells me the truth that he actually was in prison and he told the story of the iliad to the prisoners in prison. the guy who wrote the epic of gilgamesh, and ea nasir are also there.
that concludes who i would invite!!! you can ask me what happens while they’re all there and slash or how im setting up dinner tables because i will elaborate if prompted, but i hope you enjoyed my list <3
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inspiwriter · 11 months
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A reading list
Mostly to feed my own obsession with lists, but also to be used as a book recommendations list. Enjoy!
Το καπλάνι της βιτρίνας - Tiger in the glass, by Alke Zei
Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα, Πηνελόπη Δέλτα - Fairytale without a name, by Penelope Delta
Ο Μάγκας, Πηνελόπη Δέλτα - The cool kid, by Penelope Delta
Ένα παιδί μετράει τ’ άστρα, Μενέλαος Λουντέμης - A child counts the stars, by Menelaos Loudemis
Sophie’s World, by Jostein Gaarder
The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Livingston seagull, by Richard Bach
The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The orange girl, by Jostein Gaarder
Anna: a fable about the Earth’s climate and environment, by Jostein Gaarder
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings (The Felowship of the Ring - Two Towers - The return of the King), by J. R. R. Tolkien
Demian, by Herman Hesse
Anna of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery
Anne of the Island, by L.M. Montgomery
The ones that walk away from Omelas, by Ursula Le Guin
Howl’s Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
A wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1), by Ursula Le Guin
The Worlds of Chrestomanci, by Diana Wynne Jones (heptalogy: Charmed Life - The Magicians of Caprona - Witch Week - The Lives of Christopher Chant - Mixed Magics - Conrad’s Fate - The Pinhoe Egg)
Ακυβέρνητες Πολιτείες, Στρατής Τσίρκας (τριλογία: Η Λέσχη - Αριάδνη - Νυχτερίδα) - Drifitng Cities, by Stratis Tsirkas (a trilogy : The Club - Ariagne - The Bat)
Η Φόνισσα, Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης - The Murderess, by Alexandros Papadiamantis
Emma, by Jane Austen
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
Kafka on the Shore, by Haraki Murakami
The Plague, by Albert Camus
Eroica, Κοσμάς Πολίτης (Kosmas Politis)
The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott 
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom, by Leigh Bardugo
The Owl Service, by Alan Garner
Διακοπές στον Καύκασο, Μαρία Ιορδανίδου - Holidays in Caucasus, by Maria Iordanidou
Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones
A Tale of Time City, by Dianna Wynne Jones
The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
Love in a cold climate, by Nancy Mitford
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The turn of the screw, by Henry James
The Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynne Jones
The game, by Diana Wynne Jones
The last wish, by Andrzej Sapkwosky
A darker shade of magic, by V.E. Schwab
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Auaten
Sculpting in time, by Andrei Tarkovski
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
Winter Rose, by Patricia A. McKillip
Swallows and amazons, by Arthur Ransome 
What is literature?, by Jean-Paul Sartre
Hexwood, by Diana Wynne Jones
Deep Secret, by Diana Wynne Jones
The hatred of literature, by William Marx
Year of the Griffin, by Diana Wynne Jones
Castle in the air, by Diana Wynne Jones
Home of the Gentry, by Ivan Turgeniev
Archer’s Goon, by Diana Wynne Jones
The Homeward Bounders, by Diana Wynne Jones
Wilkin’s tooth, by Diana Wynne Jones
A wizard’s guide to defensive baking, by T. Kingfisher
Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett
The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle #2), by Ursula Le Guin
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pazodetrasalba · 1 year
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Fashionings of the Self
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Dear Caroline:
I find your take on these philosophical reflections on the aesthetic by dataandphilosophy charming and endearing not so much for the topic being referred (although it is interesting) as for the little window it opens into the life and quirks of university Caroline who again attends a philosophy course for the second year, skips her readings and goes to job interviews so she can earn to give (possibly one of your Jane Street internships? I'd have to check the dates)
I would have loved some more details about your conceptions of the aesthetic then; it seems quite logical that you would reject Sartre and a divergent view that can seem a bit narcissistic and/or essentialist - what is the core of one's true self? Aren't we always being shaped to a higher or lesser degree by social and cultural influences beyond ourselves? Would there be anything left if we took away layer upon layer, or oyster-like reach some lustrous pearl that is enclosed within? Isn't this a search for empty ghosts and pale shadows, or a building of meaningless models we impose on ourselves for no good reason? Conversely, I'd wager that your Catholic background, reinforced with EA beliefs, would probably paint a picture where there is beauty in renunciation, austerity and some degree of self-sacrifice.
The topic of 'self-fashioning' doesn't a priori bring much philosophy to my thoughts, as I have mainly encountered this in Stephen Greenblatt and his ideas on how the Renaissance aristocracy constructed themselves and their lives as works of art while following the Bible of Courtesy, Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano. Admittedly, a lot of Greenblatt's ideas are poached from Foucault, which means we come full circle to philosophy again.
I should probably find myself a good textbook on the Aesthetic, but there are things I take more seriously and consider more important nowadays (and with a higher priority in commandeering my free time). I remember with particular dislike a book by Terry Eagleton with the title, which as usual is just his excuse for some pedantic scholarship and dogmatic Marxist nitpicking at other points of view.
Quote:
To thine own self be true
Polonius, in Hamlet
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belle-keys · 3 years
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parts of some classic lit that hit different for me
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
- the iconic piece on books and morality from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since – on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to displace with your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!
- the “you are in every line I have ever read” tyrade in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
- the whole opening of Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
- Catherine’s confession about Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
- Darcy admitting the big truth to Lizzy in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
- Sydney Carton’s last words (*crying*) in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
You cling so tightly to your purity, my lad! How terrified you are of sullying your hands. Well, go ahead then, stay pure! What good will it do, and why even bother coming here among us? Purity is a concept of fakirs and friars. But you, the intellectuals, the bourgeois anarchists, you invoke purity as your rationalization for doing nothing. Do nothing, don’t move, wrap your arms tight around your body, put on your gloves. As for myself, my hands are dirty. I have plunged my arms up to the elbows in excrement and blood. And what else should one do? Do you suppose that it is possible to govern innocently?
- Hoederer being a realistic bad bitch, that’s what, in Les Mains Sales by Jean-Paul Sartre
I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
The “they were careless people” realization in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
‘Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.'
Frankenstein’s monster’s teenage angst in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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seaoflove · 3 years
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i decided to invent my own ask game because a) i was going to post this anyway and b) im just so incurably curious. SO im posting my 52-ish reading list of 2021 under the cut below, and i ask you to post your own reading list for the year (doesnt have to be 52! it could be one, ten, or a hundred!) however many books you want to read: please post your reading list (if u want too!!)❣️ i am nosy and always open for recs and i know myself too well so i probably wont be sticking to mine anyway. cant wait to read your lists :’-)
i tag: @engulfes @sheherazade @loveletter2you @firstfullmoon @ampiyas @nangua @steviefinch @juenereveuse @douceurs @essayisms @soracities @mossyshadows @duefoglie @iriseslonging @the2headedcalf @filmforwomen @varandra @libramoon @wolfishgirl @dakotajohnsongf @petitxchou @581d00 @heavenlyyshecomes @orienta1ism @hjarta @2ndsubstance + and anyone who sees this and wants to do it — post your list and tag me in it !
bolded = i so desperately want to read this i feel insane
ways of seeing - john berger
the brothers karamazov - fyodor dostoyevsky
paranoid reading and reparative reading, or, youre so paranoid you probably think this essay is about you - eve kosofksy sedgwick
essayism - brian dillon
suppose a sentence - brian dillon
braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer
the notebooks of malte laurids brigge - rainer maria rilke
borrowed time: and AIDS memoir - paul monette
close to the knives - david wojnarowicz
when my brother was an aztec - natalie díaz
deaf republic - ilya kaminsky
flaneuse: women who walk the city - lauren walkin
wanderlust: a history of walking - rebecca solnit
dracula - bram stoker
art objects - jeanette winterson
so much longing in so little space: the art of edvard munch - karl ove knausgaard
the waves - virginia woolf
the house by the sea - may sarton
autobiography of red - anne carson
how to do nothing: resisting the attention economy - jenny odell
“why have there been no great women artists?” - linda nochlin 1972 essay
paradise lost – john milton
la comedia divinia - dante alighieri
nausea - jean-paul sartre
personal writings - albert camus
resistance, rebellion, and death: essays - albert camus
the fall - albert camus
the second sex - simone de beauvoir
the colour purple - alice walker
loves knowledge - martha nussbaum
selected poems of john keats
collected poems of arthur rimbaud
lunch poems - frank ohara
catalog of unabashed gratitude - ross gay
homie - deniz smith
to the river - olivia laing
the house in the cerulean sea - t.j klune
kris - karin boye
circe - madeline miller
on earth were briefly gorgeous - ocean vuong
colour: a natural history of the palette - victoria finley
the waste land - ts eliot
leaves of grass - walt whitman
steppenwolf - herman hesse
othello - shakespeare
the bhagavad gita
all about love: new visions - bell hooks
giovannis room - james baldwin
the origins of totalitarianism - hannah arendt
why i wake early - mary oliver
long life - mary oliver
fear and trembling - sören kierkegaard
sense and sensibility - jane austen
history of beauty - umberto eco
on being blue: a philosophical enquiry - william gass
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francesderwent · 3 years
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I am still haunted by the knowledge that Jane Penderwick, sometime between the ages of ten and seventeen, read Jean Paul Sartre. Obviously she was disillusioned enough with him to later use him as an example of a writer with a small heart, but how long did she take to arrive at that conclusion?? Was she walking around the winter of her sixteenth year in black turtlenecks and berets? Was she pestering her sisters about creating their own meaning? Did she repeat dramatically such Sartreisms as “I am condemned to be free” and “Hell is other people”? Did she justify every quirk by saying that she was being authentic?
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aromantic-eight · 3 years
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This is part of a series of gen fic recs I’m making for Genuary 2021, organized by fandom. I’ll be putting these together quick, and many of these I have not read in a long time, so they’ll mostly just have a length range, either some general content tags I used for organizing or AO3 tags depending on the age of the bookmark, the summary, and a hopefully-still-working link.
Next up: Doctor Who! This is another fandom where I have over 100 gen bookmarks, so I will again be posting only those bookmarks flagged as favorites. For the rest, head over here (link). The following list is sorted into longfic and one shots, and seem to be mostly 10th doctor and Martha Jones, but there are a smattering of other doctors and companions in there as well.
Doctor Who
Longfic
A Busman's Holiday by jinxed_wood (PG)
Words: 10-50k | Era: 10th doctor, Martha Jones, Jack Harkness
Tags: plotty, action, humor, captured, undercover
Jack needs to be rescued, and the Doctor asks Martha to help. (Set after LoTL)
 Planar Flight by jinxed_wood (PG)
Words: 10-50k | Era: 8th doctor, 10th doctor, Martha Jones
Tags: plotty, action, drama, captured, episode tag for 29x08
It's 1913, and The Farringham School for Boys is haunted by ghosts. Martha suspects foul play, especially when another Doctor arrives on the scene.
 First Steps by Charamei (PG)
Words: 10-50k | Era: academy!doctor, academy!Master, Braxatiel
Tags: plotty, action, friendship, burns, pre-series, telepathy, trapped
There's being born, and then there's being born into a world with no adults, no clothes, no food and a terrifying alien Thing upstairs. When their Looms birth them straight into the middle of an emergency, can Our Heroes muddle through?
 Past Due by Cryptile (PG)
Words: 50-100k | Era: 9th doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness
Tags: action, drama, outsider pov, law enforcement, rumors/misconceptions, telepathy, time war
The Doctor gets in over his head searching for a dangerous relic from the Time War, meaning that Jack and Rose will have to bail him out. Too bad he's packed them off on a holiday.
 The Man With No Name by Frostfyre7 (PG-13)
Words: 50-100k | Era: 10th doctor
Tags: plotty, crossover with Firefly, action, outsider pov, alien!doctor, rumors/misconceptions, gun injuries, telepathy, time war
He hadn't really counted on getting into a pub brawl over the color of his coat on some speck of a planet, or signing up with a crew of petty criminals. Still, he'd always wondered what really happened to those Lost Colonists from Earth...
 After Life by Amy Wolf (PG)
Words: 10-50k | Era: 1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th,5th,6th,7th,8th,9th,10th doctors
Tags: character study, memories/reminiscence
Rationally speaking, you know you’re not dead. Also, there aren’t eight other people in here, and you aren’t trapped in Jean-Paul Sartre’s vision of Hell. (The ninth doctor's point of view as he regenerates and, in the process, makes peace with some past mistakes)
 Here There Be by Cryptile (PG)
Words: 10-50k | Era: Mickey Smith, Rose Tyler, TARDIS
Tags: plotty, action, character study, parallel universes, repercussions, therapy
Rose Tyler battles Prehistoric Beasts, Torquay housewives and her new therapist.
  One Shots
Five Times Jenny Met One of the Doctor's Companions by Netgirl_y2k (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: Jenny, Mel Bush, Mickey Smith, Romana 2, Sarah Jane Smith, Tegan Jovanka
Tags: humor, hijinks, chance meeting
Jenny saves some civilisations, does a lot of running and meets some of the Doctor's old friends.
 An Outlaw's Life For Me by charamei (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 4th doctor, Romana 2
Tags: humor, fluff, hijinks, gallifrey, slice of life
During an enforced stop-over on Gallifrey, the Doctor encounters what may well be his greatest threat ever. Romana isn't so sure.
 Attack of the Chronofaeces by Charamei (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 5th doctor, Adroc. Nyssa, Tegan
Tags: humor, gallifrey, slice of life, time travel
A blinky light on the TARDIS that none of the companions has ever seen before begins to flash urgently. There's an incoming package... but the Doctor doesn't seem too keen to explain what it's a package *of*. (Worldbuilding gone cracky. Approach with caution, and an umbrella.)
 Timey Wimey Tea Time by jinxed_wood (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 8th doctor, Romana 2, Martha Jones
Tags: time travel, chance meeting
In which Martha wakes up to the sound of two intruders making tea in her kitchen.
 Leave the Light On by Cherry Ice (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 9th doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness
Tags: character study, addiction, grief, memories/reminiscence, pre-series
The summer Jack was fifteen, his sister stepped out of the world. "Gone for pomegranates," the note on the kitchen table said, black marker and a backward slant.
 Duality by The_Bookkeeper (PG-13)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor
Tags: character study, outsider pov, scary!doctor
He seemed nice. Friendly, polite, big smile.
 Ten Calls by Jayne Leitch (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor, Martha Jones
Tags: character study, friendship, post-series, time travel
Martha left the Doctor her cell phone so she could call him if necessary. As it turns out, he calls her first.
 Come to Utopia by aralias (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor, Simm!Master
Tags: AU, episode tag 29x13, time travel, drama
In which the Doctor, having saved the Master's life at the end of LotTL, returns to Utopia to rescue the human spheres he was forced to trap there, the Master gets sick of the sound of his own voice, and the universe nearly ends twice.
 Everything But the Kitchen Sink by Netgirl_y2k (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 11th doctor, Oswin Oswald, TARDIS
Tags: AU, character study, introspective, episode tag to 33x01
Another important lesson Oswin learns is that creeping up on the Doctor while he sleeps and shouting, "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!" in his ear is only funny to her.
 Changing Directions by jinxed_wood (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: Martha Jones, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Jack Harkness
Tags: humor, hospital, law enforcement
Martha Jones. In the surgery. With the cleaver, and the body. There was a perfectly reasonable explanation for this. Pity she couldn’t share it with the London Metropolitan police force. Set after season three; a prequel, of sorts, to my short story, The House Call
 Extraordinary by thirty2flavors (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor, Donna Noble
Tags: episode tag for 30x10, angels
“They were scared,” was all the Doctor would say, and for once Donna found herself wishing he’d relinquish the moral high ground and admit that they were wrong, wrong, wrong, cowards and idiots and quite nearly murderers.
 Flowers on Fire by etherati (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 1st doctor, 10th doctor, Academy!doctor, academy!Master, Delgado!Master, Simm!Master
Tags: angst, character study, drama, canon character death, unusual format
They burn, in the darkness and the light, circling round each other like binary stars just on the edge of nova. They both burn, but they do not burn the same. Theta, Koschei, and their successors.
 An End has a Start by Netgirl_y2k (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor, Martha Jones
Tags: crossover with Firefly, action, time travel
It seemed that the Doctor's moral stance on not participating in major jewel heists for fear of screwing up the timeline was considerably weaker when they were a) in another universe b) especially fun jewel heists. Crossover with Firefly.
 Hivetwist by charamei (PG)
Words: 1-500 | Era: 10th doctor
Tags: character study, episode tag for 30x06, telepathy, introspective
Jenny's untrained telepathy is giving the Doctor problems.
 It Is Defended by charamei (PG)
Words: 1-500 | Era: 10th doctor, Simm!Master
Tags: character study, introspective, episode tag for 29x12 and 29x13
Even renegades need rules, and the Master has broken them.
 Technical Difficulties by bendingsignpost (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor, Donna Noble
Tags: fluff, humor, banter
An alien git and possessed office supplies. Just another ordinary day for Donna Noble.
 Hey Now Hey Now by Cryptile (PG)
Words: 5-10k | Era: 10th doctor, Rose Tyler
Tags: angst, character study, introspective, repercussions, unusual format
It's not that the smiles aren't genuine. It's not that the songs aren't howled from somewhere heartfelt and that the laughter is fake. It's all real, at the end of the day. But there are other things that are real, Rose Tyler knows, and the TARDIS croons and murmurs to her again and wolves howl from a place she hopes she wishes she prays isn't there.
 All Through the Night by Significant Owl (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor, Rose Tyler
Tags: episode tag for The Christmas Invasion, regeneration, sentimental
This was when it was hardest. When he was still, when he was quiet, when he could be anybody. [post-ep for TCI]
 Downtime by Cryptile (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor, Rose Tyler, Jackie Tyler
Tags: angst, episode tag for The Christmas Invasion, regeneration, unusual format, holiday
The reasons he does not give her for why they do not leave on that enchanted December night, the snow (ash) piling up around their ankles as they stare at the stars:
 A Pound Note And A Soft Smack by Versaphile (PG)
Words: 500-1k | Era: 10th doctor
Tags: humor
S4, no spoilers. The problem with lying about your age is remembering to be consistent.
 Twentyish Lies Told To Rose Tyler by nostalgia (PG)
Words: 500-1k | Era: 10th doctor
Tags: character study, 1st person pov, unusual format
"Please select from the following options."
 Wouldn't You Like To Get Away? by Doyle (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor, Martha Jones
Tags: fluff, humor, episode tag for 29x13
Months after she left the Doctor, Martha gets a surprise visit.
 Peacetime by garrideb (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor, Jack Harkness
Tags: friendship, hurt/comfort, sentimental, cuddling, grief, holidau, episode tag for 29x13
After Last of the Time Lords, the Doctor needs a friend, so he convinces Jack to take one more trip with him. They travel to a war-torn planet in the midst of a special festival. Written: 11/2007
 Fake a Smile by The_Bookkeeper (PG-13)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor, Martha Jones
Tags: angst, character study, dark, introspective, memories/reminiscence
Martha is persistent, but the Doctor is evasive, and he’s had more practice than she has.
 One Day at a Time by Settiai (PG)
Words: 1-5k | Era: 10th doctor, Martha Jones
Tags: episode tag for 29x10, rumors/misconceptions, slice of life, time travel
It was just another normal day in 1969. (coda to Blink)
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ok i really want to start reading but i have absolutely no idea where to start do you have any recs?
Oh man, it completely depends on what you want to read!
Poetry:
I just responded to an ask and listed like 10 of my favorite poems, but more generally:
- Badger Clark: queer cowboy poet; his work is really rhythmic/lyrical and tends to be about General cowboy/Western things
- Wilfred Owen: gay WWI soldier who trained as a pastor; his love poetry is gorgeous and his war poetry is haunting
- Langston Hughes: queer Black writer; lots of poems about race and Harlem (the Black neighborhood of NYC)
- Phillis Wheatley: Black enslaved person; Wheatley was the first woman published in America and her stuff tends to basically say ‘hey look I’m just as smart as a white person maybe we should have equality’
Contemporary fiction:
- I’m loving Sarah Gailey’s work right now, they’ve got two fun gay vaguely Wild West ensemble pieces (Upright Women Wanted and River of Teeth) and a fun magical California noir one (Magic for Liars)
- Tamora Pierce is an author I grew up on and am getting back into; she’s got tons of series about lady knights and lady spies and girls in fantasy in general
- the Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo is a super fun, gay, incredibly diverse heist series (good old fashioned doing crime for money)
- Nottingham by Anna Burke is a lesbian retelling of the Robin Hood myth
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon is about an autistic boy who wants to be an astronaut and needs to find out who killed his neighbor’s dog (it’s also about family, and how much love we can give each other, and how to find new ways to love each other when old or ‘normal’ ones don’t work for us)
Classics
- I’m a slut for The Hobbit not gonna lie; it’s rambly and sometimes slow but it feels cozy somehow
- Les Mis is a dense motherfucker but it was also a pretty fundamental book in getting me into social justice
- Jane Austen in general is fantastic; I’m a huge fan of Northanger Abbey in particular because it just makes fun of trashy Gothic lit
- on the topic of Gothic lit, Dracula is really worth the read. You can’t get the full story or the right vibes from any other medium.
- Frankenstein is also worth the read. Shelley knew what was up.
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston is in dialect, which can take a bit to get used to, but it’s SUCH A GOOD BOOK
- A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is so painfully gay it was used as evidence in his sodomy trial. If you can, get your hands on the uncensored version for maximum gay.
Nonfic
- Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicholson is about his parents’ polyamorous relationship(s), including his mom’s relationship with Virginia Woolf
- 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl is a fun collection of 100 short essays about theater, patenting, and life
- This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpan Faust is a bit slow, but it’s a look at the way the American Civil War changed our ideas about death and it made me want to study history
Plays (these got away from me a bit, sorry)
- No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre is about three awful people trapped in a room together. Maybe not the play to read in quarantine but a damn good play.
- Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, adapted by Sarah Ruhl. A play version of the book Woolf wrote about how much she loved her girlfriend, it uses lots of Woolf’s original language and is so fucking gay and beautiful
- Hamlet by Shakespeare. What can I say; I love this funky lil depressed gay and his cute nerd boyfriend. Macbeth and The Tempest are also great.
- A Sunday Morning in the South by Georgia Douglas Johnson needs a trigger warning for racial violence, but it’s one of the most chilling things I’ve ever read in my life. It’s about a a Black family in the Deep South in the early 1900s, it’s pretty short and it’s so horrifyingly good.
- Trifles by Susan Glaspell is about a murder investigation, and more deeply about women protecting each other.
- Tea by Velina Hasu Houston is about four Japanese women in a small town in Kansas in the 1960s and how they find common ground and community.
- Language of Angels by Naomi Izuka is a vaguely supernatural one about a girl who dies in rural Appalachia and the way she haunts the classmates involved.
- Slaughter City by Naomi Wallace is about worker’s rights both historically and in the modern meat packing industry; it’s also got some really cool supernatural elements
- In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl is about the invention of the vibrator, and more generally about intimacy and sexuality/sexual pleasure.
- M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang is a subversion of the white savior trope and a commentary on the effeminization of Asian men, based on a true spy story.
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