#books and cleverness

[visualsandvoices]

It’s been a long time since I’ve read Arthur Conan Doyle and I forgot he was this sassy lmao

Imagine some dude with the physical description of Megamind telling you you’ve got a walnut for a brain lmao 😂

Only 30pgs in and I am having a great time 😂

(from The Lost World 🦖)

#chaotic academic aesthetic #chaotic academia #light academia #light academia aesthetic #arthur conan doyle #sherlock holmes #bookblr #bookworm #books and coffee #books and cleverness #victorian #victorian era #victorian england #english literature #book aesthetic #english lit memes #megamind

[malfoy-riddle]

Happy birthday Hermione 💖 artwork is made by me!

#harry potter #hogwarts #gryffindor #hermione granger #pinterest #aesthetic #birthday #pink #books and cleverness #ron weasley

[colduaire]

There Is Something About Her Fierce Intellect Coupled With A Complete Lack Of Understanding Of How She Affects People Sometimes That I Just Find Charming And Irresistible To Write About.

—Screenwriter Steve Kloves

#hermione granger #books and cleverness

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

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#legend of zelda #loz #twilight princess #loz tp #i'm still reeling that someone sent me an ask about this one.. that they took the time to find my tumblr and tell me they liked it #it really meant a lot; thank you to anyone that stops to leave comments like that. they make me happy #but yeah! here's the usual symbolism ramble: #i thought it'd be cool to have the 'spirits' flowing one way and the cats walking through them the other way #to kinda show the difference in life inhabiting the village in the past and present #link's face is covered because impaz was just waiting for 'the hero' so his clothes are what matters; not his face #and it (hopefully) gives a surreal and intangible sense to 'the hero' she could only hope would actually show up #you can feel free to interpret the glowy blue sheikah as ghosts or just as memories of the past! i couldn't decide either way #the one on the bottom left is oot impa since she's implied to be the village founder. so i guess she would be a ghost actually? #fan art #my art #project stuff #and ahhh the book-- everyone's stuff is so beautiful!! #especially the writing. some of the fics made me really tear up and some were so fun and clever. i really love them #a lot of them captured the sheer burden of the role of the sheikah; all of the time and grief and doubt #i know i always say this stuff about every project but. the people i get to work with in these are truly so skilled every time

[oddishblossom]

We got something going on. Sail away with me to another world

BANANA FISH Episode 18: Islands in the Stream

#bananafishedit #dailyshounenai #fyanimegifs #anisource #useraslaanjade #animangaboys #banana fish #asheiji #my gifs! #ash lynx #eiji okumura #gif set #1K! #i think it’s clever that the episode titles are named after american classic novels #i was originally gonna use a quote from the book as the caption #but when i heard the dolly parton song of the same name i saw how it fit better ❤️

[communistkenobi]

two iron-clad maxims I have learned through researching trans issues:

If an article claims to be talking about LGBTQ issues but doesn’t mention trans people and/or only uses the word queer, it is a waste of time

If an article about transgender politics is posted in a cultural or media studies journal, don’t even bother opening it

#I see you cis gay people! I see you using ‘gay and queer’ like you think you’re so clever! your theory is shit and useless! #leaving gender as sacrosanct as the starting point to talking about homophobia is a non-starter. do not pass go do not collect $200 etc #book club

[onaperduamedee]

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

— Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated from the French by Grace Frick

#the wheel of time #siuan sanche #wot edit #wot on prime #clever as a pike #mygifs #mine: wot #you know what I will stop fiddling with it #I wanted a certain vibe I think I achieved it #I picked the wrong copy of the book without my annotations so it took me ages to find the quote #ANYWAY #yes please talk to me about about Siuan and power #Siuan dreaming of a home like her father's hut #knowing it'll ever be just a dream because her power and stability depend on the appearance of power she conveys #she's a prisoner of the Tower but the world depends on her control on it #she's an heretic but her heresy hinges on her ability to follow the law #to be the law #yes I know someday I will stop making Yourcenar-inspired fandom gifsets and tearing my hair to find translations #but the temptation was too great to quote from this because she's such a political being at heart yet driven by such dedication to humanity

[janeaustenlover]

And last but least, District Twelve girl . . . she belongs to Coriolanus Snow.

#snowbaird #bookedit #litedit #thgedit #tbosasedit #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #snowbaird + 'absence' by pablo neruda = MEANT TO BE #made for each other on so many levels! #merry xmas margherita my babyyyyy my clever devious deadly girl #btw did i just use the most deranged quote?? yes so what #really wanted to go with 'they were back in the arena fighting for survival just the two of them against the world' but #i'm being an EXTRA on holidays blame the endorphins #coriolanus x lucy gray #book otp #the hunger games #shitty things i do for love

[grubliinu]

your honor I love them

#kavetham #kaveh #alhaitham #genshin impact #I wish I had thought something clever to write on alhaitham's book but alas

[jesse-cosay]

Have I told you guys how much I hate this show.

I just realized why we see Jesse's harpoon pack fall when the exit closes. It isn't just a quick way of explaining that stuff from the train can't leave the train. It isn't just to show us "Hey! The harpoon pack didn't really go with him, even though you see him wearing it while inside the exit!"

If that was their point, they could have just made the harpoon pack fall off sooner. They could have had Jesse take it off and throw it at the Apex to make a statement.

And if it was about Lake's escape- or the next episode being off the train or how they were cuffed to one of the flecs- it would be possible to reframe it. They could have had it be something to do with the train car or Alan Dracula. There are a million different ways to get a similar result. But that wasn't what they wanted to do.

No, no, the framing is so important in this scene. The door closes. We watch it drop to the floor.

And I remember seeing this and thinking- why? It isn't necessary. We already understand that "train stuff" doesn't go off the train. It's a two second clip of it falling. It's not needed. Why.

Because the next clip is Lake.

It's a comparison.

Do you see this harpoon pack? This silly, little thing? To the train, Lake is no different. They are just a thing.

An object.

It was just another way to show us how the system and the train viewed Lake. I hate it. I hate it here.

#infinity train #lake infinity train #infinity train lake #infinity train book 2 #infinity train meta #im literally so upset rn abt this yall have no idea #like how did i miss this after so many rewatches #and also its so clever and simple!!! #this show has ruined me #ill never feel happiness again #infinity train book two

[wizzard890]

How long into Dune Part 2 before you knew you were watching a fucking All Timer

I knew I was watching a movie of incredible visual imagination the minute I saw the Harkonnen troops levitate up the side of the cliffs in the opening scene.

But a fucking all timer? When we landed on Geidi Prime for Feyd's introduction. The score, the boldness of character, of design, the absolute thematic confidence. This movie honestly blew my skull out the back of my head. I absolutely loved it.

I've been listening to the love theme (which is also the "start of holy war, implacable and endless" theme, in another just ace bit of filmmaking) non stop since Monday.

I'm seeing it again as soon as humanly possible.

#the incredibly dark characterization of jessica to help externalize paul's conflict in the book #the semi-erotic knife fight at the end #the very clever use of chiani and the elegant writing around her ending #banger after banger after banger #dune #dune part two

[malfoy-riddle]

Hermione Granger <3 Happy birthday 🎉

This is my own artwork :)

#harry potter #hogwarts #gryffindor #hermione granger #hermione weasley #ron weasley #books and cleverness #pinterest #aesthetic #pink aesthetic #pink academia

[captain-rickbond]

Hey, I absolutely love your art and makes me happy that you follow me (gessleingraphics) was wondering if you could try "angel and devil humphrey" from s5. I love how you draw larry 😊

thank you so much 💜 @geekstuffkittykat your art is cool and I love your use of colours!

devil Humphrey? I have no idea what you're talking about, he's the prettiest and gooooodest boy...

...maybe a bit cheeky and tends to have some weird-ass ideas, and sometimes he's just a bit rude and- okay, he's evil

#humphrey bone #larry rickard #laurence rickard #Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty #random quote from a book I haven't heard of but fits #humphrey bbc ghosts #cheeky pretty boy #bbc ghosts #fanart #six idiots fanart #six idiots #digital art #art #procreate #bbc ghosts fanart #bbc ghosts humphrey #asks answered

[llamagoddessofficial]

Hi! I love your works! I know you have some fanfiction recommendations, but do you have any published book recommendations too? Thank you kindly!

I do!!! Here's some books I love, in no particular order. Mix of fiction and non-fiction.

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, by Michelle Paver. I cannot rave about this series loud enough, it is CRIMINALLY underrated. The books are set in Stone Age Europe, and follow a boy who can talk to wolves + his wolf buddy. Honestly they were my absolute favourite books as a kid and I have fond memories of begging my dad to drive me to the bookshop in town every time a new instalment came out. Bangers.

H is for Hawk is a beautiful memoir about a woman trying to train a goshawk after her father passes away. If you like gripping depictions of learning to live with grief, or ya just like birds of prey, this is a no-brainer

Is This Normal is a non-fiction book about the female body. It was a surprisingly lovely read. It me realise I knew a lot less about my own body than I thought I did.

I know everyone raves about Song of Achilles, but honestly? I prefer Madeline Miller's other book, Circe. If you read her stuff you'll understand where I get my love of metaphors from.

My Sister The Serial Killer is a really fresh, exciting spin on the very typical thriller format. I sometimes get tired of thrillers but I never got tired of this one. It's also a relatively short book, so I read it in the space of an evening.

#lmao one day ill write a book and try to surreptitiously recommend it on this blog as if it wasnt me #oouUHhoH look at THIS BOOK the writer is SO SMART and SO PRETTY and so CLEVER

[pb-dot]

I find the way Fantasy High Junior Year treats religion to be fascinating, and evolving in an interesting way in the last couple of episodes. Like episode 14 makes it pretty clear, through Kristen's parents and Bobby Dawn that the helioic faith, ironically isn't much of a faith. There's no need for faith or belief there, they know who their god, Helio, they know he's a force interacting with their lives and their world, and they "know" that he is the only correct god to follow. This is in part a character flaw on their part, but is in a way also a logcial extrapolation of the cosmology of the D&D universe, or at least the particular branch of it in which Fantasy High resides.

Kristen stands as a stark contrast to this, where faith is all she has. Nobody knows whether Cassandra is alive, dead, or something in-between, and Kristen has chosen to believe that Cassandra is out there, somewhere. In a way, Cassandra is a better diety for doubt and mystery now than she was when she had a physical form one could see and interact with.

This is why the confrontation between Bobby Dawn and Kristen is so interesting to me, because while Bobby is technically correct in that Kristen's god is dead, it should tell him something that Kristen is still able to do the works of a cleric in Cassandra's name. That's not a fail state, that's a level faith that really justifies Kristen's sainthood, hell, we may be past the level of a saint at this point. This is the kind of stuff religious movements gets started off of. This is the kind of stuff that you only read about in ancient histories. It's happening in Bobby Dawn's classroom, and this corn pone televangelist motherfucker is too blinded by bitterness of Kristen ditching his religion, too drunk on the certainty of following The Right Way, to see this real life miracle unfold in front of him. This man shouldn't be a cleric teacher. Even if he managed to teach without biasing towards his Mean Girls crew of divinities and their followers, which I have no faith (heh) that he is able, or willing, to do, he still fails on a fundamental level. Bobby Dawn is beholding a wonder of modern faith, a messianic figure in the making, and opposes it. Not as a matter of conviction, but because is unable to comprehend it because it's not happening on "his team."

It's really interesting stuff, and it's shaping up to be one hell of a character arc for Saint Kristen Chillis Applebees as long as she doesn't get expelled.

#d20 fhjy #fantasy high junior year #Kristen Applebees #in which I ramble about faith and belief #you know Book Of Mormon (The Musical) often gets called “An Atheist's Love Letter to Religion” #and I never quite knew what to feel about that #but I will gladly call Junior Year a worthy claimant to the title #or maybe “Agnostic's Love Letter to Religion”? #I don't know the faiths or philosophies re:God of the people involved #but as an atheist-agnostic myself I will say that this plotline is really cooking #and it has a lot of clever things to say about religion at least in the D&D-verse #which is a whole situation in and of itself frankly #Honestly good on Brennan and the IH for going into depth on the religion angle a bit #it feels like an underutilized part of character building most of the time #and it's nice to see it get its day in the sun here

[mistressaccost]

Donna Tartt “The Spirit and Writing in a Secular World” in The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture

#was just really struck by this as someone who was raised without any kind of religion #i think i’ve longed for this worldview without ever really knowing it #for a little while with the right book i can live in a predestined world #and it’s magical and clever and brilliant #maybe my existence doesn’t make sense to me but these characters’ do #donna tartt #the secret history #the goldfinch