#book essays

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

secrets of farming (1863) - john w. large

"yeowch augh taking damage ough eurgh"

#sorry i havent been super active #have been dealing w personal and health issues etc #leave some good horror movies down below #or video essays #either one #we just closed the seagull #will forever be abnormal about that show #anyway! #blackout poem #blackout poetry #author #book #poetry

[cemeterything]

"i wish i could exfoliate my brain" you can. by reading things that challenge you.

#🐉 #intellectually ethically morally emotionally etc. #once you find a decent book or essay that hits just right you will feel the dead layers flaking off

[sapphia]

congrats on hbomberguy for getting the internet's highest queer honour

#its because opposite forces must be diametrically opposed and the internet's highest dishonour is to be called out in a chuck tingle book #an hbomb video essay is only second. but one day they will join forces and the work they produce will kill jkr and we will finally be free #hbomberguy #chuck tingle #james somerton

[soracities]

"As an educator, I don’t just want you to feel what I feel. I don’t want you to consider me correct because I said it beautifully. I want to sharpen your critical thinking skills and your world-making capacities. I absolutely do not leave emotion out of that! Emotions are as central as the written, verbal, numeric, social, ecological knowledges we are able to gain to navigate this world and the next. I am just… extra cognizant of how much I can lead viewers to feel with me without further thought. The videos of mine that go most viral are ones where I show the most emotion, whatever that emotion is: hopeful, cheery, despondent, grieved, furious, combative. We love emotion. We live such isolated, stifled lives.

The challenge of reading is to navigate the narrative without the overtures of overt feelings. There is no face to latch onto, no music that sways you. Words on a page especially cannot compete with screen-time. They’re not meant to. The boredom opens up space in your mindscape to your own thoughts, opinions, and feelings."

—Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings on Substack

#q #lit #quotes #essays and articles #ismatu gwendolyn #youve been traumatised into hating reading and it makes you easier to oppress #threadings #m #x #on books and reading

[lucidloving]

@heavensghost // Erin Moran, "940 Main Street" // Jason Schneiderman, "Little Red Riding Wolf" // @mah_hirano on tw // Adrienne Rich, "Planetarium" // Richard Siken, Editor's Pages: Black Telephone // Molly McCully Brown, Places I've Taken my Body: Essays // @loputyn // Mason O'Hern, "You Are Not Just Anything" // Friedrich Nietzsche, Good and Evil

#theme: a woman in the shape of a monster #web weaving #web weave #webs #poetry #prose #aesthetic #prose poetry #literature #art #book quotes #novels #books #novel quotes #essays #quotes #words #writing #inspo #compilation #parallels #on womanhood #on femininity #femininity #womanhood #illustration #richard siken #friedrich nietzsche #nietzche #poems

[egophiliac]

I've had a beast of a cold for the last few days, but I wanted to get this out before the new year! while I've sort of made my peace with my first take on Lilia's UM poster, I really wanted to do a version with the new context that chapter 6 gave us. because. c'mon.

(don't worry, Lilia can carry ALL HIS KIDS AT ONCE)

#art #twisted wonderland #unique magic posters #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 6 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 6 spoilers #the dragon cradle does make me laugh #no look i understand it's a ~visual metaphor~ for malleus' isolation #(and also lets lilia run up a bunch of steps all dramatically later) #but the image of this enormous ten-story cradle with the teeny tiny little egg in the middle of it is pretty hilarious #the draconias are SO extra about everything #now if you'll excuse me i have to go fall over for what remains of the year #happy 2024! #(i apologize to the poor person who asked a cute question about meleanor and got a giant cold medicine-induced essay in response :') #(i have been incapable of coherent thought for...a while now)

[counting-stars-gayly]

Book: "I don't know what my mom will do. I just know I'll fight next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain."

Show: "You've done more for me in the past few days than my dad's done for me in my entire life. If I have to stick with someone, I—" "Careful. I think you were about to call me your friend."

#AAAAAAAAAAH #I don't have the words for an essay rn because life is life-ing but I hope you guys Get It #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #rick riordan #pjo books #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv spoilers #pjo disney+ #pjo adaptation #pjo ep 4 #pjo 1x04 #we take a zebra to vegas #I plunge to my death

[joytri]

#aesthetic #dark academia #coffee #books #academia #college #light academia #literature #studyblr #work #poems #essays #art #artists #career #life #life goals

[kitchen-light]

Regretfully, I had to leave all my books behind. I couldn’t bear to make the choice between my beloveds, so I left them all.   Give them back. Give us back our beds. Give us back our offices. And give us back our books.

Nabil S., from "It Was All Songs: A Letter From Gaza" translated from the Arabic by Sarah Aziza, published in Mizna on February 12th, 2024. You can read the entire essay here.

#nabil s #quotes #essays #words #palestine #found* #books

[longreads]

“The most important part of my job is to make the library a safe space. One where kids burst through the door and go running with glee to the children’s area so they can say hello to whoever is at the desk. One where a patron can have a full metal meltdown about the state of the world and still be given resources to find housing, a shower, a meal. One where someone can come in blasted high for years and then return the next day sober and clean, ensconcing themselves in the safety of the books to stay that way.”

Lisa Bubert’s Instagram bio reads "Public librarian who has seen some 💩," and her latest piece makes clear just how much “some” is. When so much of our society has seemingly turned its back on its neediest members, public libraries have never been more important. To read “Safety Net,” head to Longreads.

#longreads #long reads #public libraries #books and libraries #essays

[imbiactually-28]

as someone who has taken a few greek myth/history courses in university, i just want to say that i’m so happy that they took the kleos route in the new pjo show.

in all the myths, with achilles’ and heracles’ being the most prominent, kleos/eternal glory drives why they do what they do. they want to be recognized by others for their feats for as long as possible

without spoiling, with clarisse, luke, annabeth, grover, and percy’s story lines it really makes sense cause they’re all trying to find their own kleos

#i’ve literally written two essays on kleos so i’m holding back lol #but when luke mentioned kleos i geeked out #i was so happy #cause it makes so much sense #and i don’t remember it being developed in the books #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percabeth #annabeth chase #grover underwood #luke castellan #clarrise la rue #pjo

[communistkenobi]

I was reading an essay about trans identity earlier and the author forwarded an interesting argument, which was that cis-heterosexuality is deeply unnatural. it can’t be anything but unnatural, because if it wasn’t it wouldn’t need to be so violently imposed on everyone and reinforced to you your entire life. which means humanity existed prior to that imposition - that there is a state of existential transsexuality, or rather pre-sexuality (used in this instance to refer both to gender and sexuality), where human beings are fully capable of existing in the world without the imposition of cis-heterosexuality. trans people are just sitting up and taking note of this imposition. so the real question is not “why are you transgender?”, the question is “why are so many of you not transgender?”

#the book is called transgender marxism btw #and the essay is called why are we like this iirc #it’s not in front of me atm so I can grab the exact title later but #anyway it was an interesting argument #book club

[luthienne]

Don’t Look Away, by Selma Dabbagh as featured in the London Review of Books

#selma dabbagh #london review of books #don’t look away #words #essays #typography #palestine #free palestine

[bucketofcursedbooks]

I love you lost media I love you video essays I love you iceberg chart videos I love you archive sites I love you old web I love you media leaks I love you reference book section I love you obscure and strange history I love you Wikipedia

#lost media #old web #oldweb #video essays #iceberg chart #internet archive #book love #big brain time #history #Wikipedia #wendigoon #nexpo #i love you

[journalette]

I am currently working on an essay on Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".

#study #studyblr #study blog #studygram #student #college #university #essay #studyblr community #studyspo #Walter Benjamin #book #bookblr #bookstagram #reader #writer #writers community #writers on tumblr #neutral palette

[soracities]

—Julie Beck, "Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read", pub. The Atlantic [ID'd]

#q #quotes #essays and articles #typography #id included #julie beck #why we forget most of the books we read #the atlantic #m #x