#dickens vs. tolstoy

[general-dar-benn]

Dickens vs Tolstoy featuring Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton 💕

#zawe ashton #tom hiddleston #dickens vs tolstoy #4 year anniversary #💕💕💕 #hash

[justzawe]

Go to @irene_slytherclaw IG stories to see a photo showing Zawe gently trying to extract Tom from the fan girl surge after the debate😂

I guess that’s her

#hash #dickens vs tolstoy

[lokisdarbenn]

Tom Hiddleston & Zawe Ashton Intelligence Squared Dickens vs. Tolstoy, November 18th, 2018 & BAFTA, March 13, 2022

#christening this blog with two debuts #zawe ashton #tom hiddleston #and on we go! #throwback

[insanityclause]

All this talk about the timeline of Zawe and Tom's relationship beginning had me remembering like before Dickens vs. Tolstoy there were sightings of him with someone at a restaurant and like it all begins to click

Yep.

[classiclitbracket]

Update 3/17

Submissions closed last night with 117 entries, and I have begun the process of compiling the bracket, the finished version of which will probably be released on Sunday night (3/19), with hesitant plans to begin the first official match-ups on Monday (3/20). There is five preliminary rounds required, which will release at 9:00 AM EST Saturday (3/18) and be open for 24 hours.

New Guaranteed Entries:

The Sorrows of Young Werther-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde

Dracula-Bram Stoker

Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury

Passing-Nella Larsen

Their Eyes Were Watching God-Zora Neale Hurston

Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut

Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison

Moby Dick-Herman Melville

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-Robert Louis Stevenson

Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte

All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque

Lord of the Flies-William Golding

The Oz Series-L. Frank Baum

The Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger

Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck

War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy

Preliminaries:

Lord of the Rings-related submissions

Dickens-related submissions (Oliver Twist vs. A Tale of Two Cities vs. A Christmas Carol)

Dumas-related submissions (The Count of Monte Cristo vs. The Three Musketeers)

H.G. Wells-related submissions (War of the Worlds vs. The Time Machine vs. The Invisible Man)

Don Quixote-related submissions

#mod sorrel speaks #update

[wheredafandomat]

Dr. Laufeyson

Chapter 2 ~ Morning stragglers

Warnings etc: Loki x female reader au where Lokis a therapist, therapy, swearing, mentions of past trauma later in the fic including abuse both physically and sexually - not explicit detail, 18+. PLEASE tell me if I ever leave anything out x

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Finally finished with all his clients for the day, Loki took the time to properly look through your file again after actually meeting you. You were nothing like he thought you’d be which was why he often scolded himself for making pre judgements about clients based on the information provided. He read through the notes from the answers to questionnaires you had completed before being paired with him for his specific skill set. Unlike other therapists who worked alongside him in the clinic, Loki specialised in cognitive behavioural therapy, mostly dealing with addicts of various different things ranging from substance abuse to sex. In his years of practicing, he had never come across someone like you. He knew it was wrong to make assumptions but he thought it was strange that someone who looked so well ‘put together’ would be spending thousands for therapy with him.

Before leaving the building, he spoke with Natasha who booked your appointment for next week. Making his way to his car, he thought back to your interaction. He felt a slight twinge of embarrassment wash over him for a second when he realised how easy it was for him to speak to you. Despite having gone to university and even studying a masters, Loki hadn’t ever met anyone he could playfully debate with like he did with you. No one had ever had a differing opinion to his and if they did, they kept it hidden often just agreeing with him. You were a breath of fresh air.

He got into his car before driving home, singing along to the the Beatles songs that were playing.

Pulling up on his driveway, Loki stopped the engine before opening the car door and exiting, reaching back in to grab his bag. Entering his house that was definitely too big for just him, he already felt himself growing tired. He showered before changing into some loose pyjamas and heading towards the large kitchen. He looked over the clean surfaces, seeing his own reflection looking back at him. He sighed at his solemn expression. Opening the fridge, he took out an apple and decided to eat that for dinner as opposed to cooking or ordering food. The task just seemed too strenuous for one person.

Walking back to his room, apple in hand, he looked down at the picture on the counter top of him and Thor as well as some of their friends. He missed it, the company.

Entering the en-suite, he brushed his teeth before taking his clothes off and going into bed, choosing to browse through his phone before he went to sleep. Remembering his earlier conversation with you, Loki smiled to himself as he went onto YouTube and watched a dickens vs Tolstoy debate.

“Perhaps you were right y/n.” He spoke aloud with a grin.

As the week went on, you found yourself counting the days until your next appointment with Dr Laufeyson. You convinced yourself to go out with Bucky one night, regretting it when you woke up with a hangover and a random guy who definitely wasn’t Bucky in your bed. You sighed to yourself, you didn’t even really remember the night. You hoped that the intoxicated you at least enjoyed herself. Getting up, you wrapped yourself in your duvet before using your foot to kick the man awake which only seemed to edge him further into a deep sleep as the sound of his snores rose. Taking a deep breath to try and fight your frustration, you thought you’d get yourself a glass of water before trying to wake him again. Dropping the duvet, you wrapped your dressing gown around yourself before stepping out of your bedroom.

Walking through the livingroom, you sighted Bucky crashed out on the sofa in only his boxers. You made your way towards him, laying down on the sofa next to him.

“Morning princess.” He spoke, eyes still closed as he quickly placed a kiss on your hairline.

“Morning Bucky. The guy from last nights still in my bed and he won’t wake up.” You told him, wrapping an arm around him as you snuggled into his side.

“Want me to get him out?” He asked, extending an arm for you to snuggle further into him.

“Not right now.” You said, closing your eyes as you revelled in the feeling of him holding you. Your lip began to tremble as you thought over all the things that had led you to this moment, seeking such comfort from something as simple as an arm around you. Leaning further into him, you placed a kiss on Bucky’s chest as you draped a leg across him. Your lips continued to roam his body as your hand found his slight bulge. Opening his eyes, Bucky turned to face you, taking your leg off of him in the process.

“Come here.” He said, pulling you towards him before you nuzzled into the crook of his neck. One of his hands soothingly rubbed circles over your back as he rested his chin on the hop of your head. These small moments of intimacy were intoxicating. You could have gotten lost in them. You found yourself wishing it was real, not just Bucky pitying you. That was the power of one night stands, they didn’t know your history or any information they could use against you, they just knew that they wanted to fuck you. Something about that was empowering. “Did you guys talk about him during therapy?” Bucky asked, probably knowing what you were thinking.

“No, we just introduced ourselves. I’m sure he’ll come up during the next session.” You answered, falling further into Bucky’s embrace. He didn’t answer, he just held you tighter.

After a while, Bucky got rid of the straggler for you before he himself left whilst you nursed your hangover hoping you’d be right as rain by tomorrow for your appointment with Dr Laufeyson. You knew that you’d end up having to talk about your past, of course, it was therapy, but it didn’t make it easier to open up. You never really did. Bucky knew most of what happened because he was your best friend and you confided in him but you hadn’t really gone into detail with any of your previous therapists. Something told you that you were safe with Dr Laufeyson, that you could finally open up. The thought scared you.

Bucky, your trusty fwb 😂

Tags:

@lokisprettygirl22

@michelleleewise

#loki x reader #tom hiddelston loki #loki x female reader #loki fanfic #loki (marvel) #oc fiction #loki fanfiction #bucky x you #bucky x reader #Loki laufeyson #loki au

[grandhotelabyss]

Do you think (good) crime fiction can be viewed as truly “serious” literature? (The Swedish Academy doesn’t seem to think so.) Are Chandler, Hammett and Highsmith confined to an irremediably minor genre? In the case of Ellroy, arguably the greatest crime writer alive, I see quite the stylist at work in his America trilogy. And there’s John Banville too -a highbrow writer who has reinvented himself as the Irish Simenon, though he tellingly uses a pseudonym for his crime novels.

I'd probably draw a distinction between "fiction about crime" and "detective fiction." The latter seems more restrictive or formulaic in its (plot) conventions,[*] even in superb stylists like Hammett and Chandler. Whereas "fiction about crime" could pretty much be anything and includes plenty of "high literature" over the last two centuries (Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Hemingway, McCarthy, DeLillo, Oates, etc.). It's not a subgenre I'm deeply familiar with, though—I haven't read Highsmith or Ellroy, for example (though I have seen the movies!)—so I could be wrong.

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[*] I think genres or subgenres that essentially require a certain plot structure are "minor" in the modern period (not, obviously, in the pre-modern, which had a higher tolerance for the conventional). Note that this doesn't map onto the "literary fiction" vs. "genre fiction" distinction. Science fiction and fantasy aren't restrictive in this way, for example, and neither is historical fiction. It also explains why there is no "literary" version of the romance novel the way there is with other popular genres—no Raymond Chandler or Philip K. Dick or Alan Moore of the romance novel. The romance requires a certain plot, whereas the serious realist novel works with exactly the same material or content as the romance novel sans this requirement. Romance novels need no Raymond Chandler because the peak of the genre (in content terms) at its most expansive can boast of George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Iris Murdoch—even Virginia Woolf and James Joyce and Marcel Proust. (Jane Austen invented both the serious realist novel and the genre romance novel in English, in the same way that Edgar Allan Poe invented science fiction, horror fiction, and detective fiction, on the one hand, and avant-garde or experimental fiction/poetry on the other. Austen and Poe are the most important fiction writers of the 19th century—not necessarily the best [though Austen is certainly among the best] but the most important—because, between them, they invented everything that came after.)

#fiction #crime fiction #detective fiction

[solaris-girl]

100-ish classics and must-reads

solaris girl's list of 100 must-reads :-)

( bold = read. constantly updating!)

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 

1984 - George Orwell 

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

The Giver - Lois Lowrey

The Book Thief - Markus Zusack

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Les Miserables -Victor Hugo

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Catch - 22 - Joseph Heller

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

Our Town - Thornton Wilder

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

Candide - Voltaire

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - Naomi Klein

The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe

Emma - Jane Austen

The Republic - Plato

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli 

Beloved - Toni Morrison

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Tell Tale Heart and Other Readings - Edgar Allan Poe

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Sidhartha - Hermann Hesse

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespear

The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom

Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

I, Claudius - Robert Graves

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Middlemarch - George Eliot

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

White Fang - Jack London

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte

A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

[thezfc]

" He started to look scruffy and sad in 2018 after Infinity War promo. That Dickens vs. Tolstoy look was a disaster. "

You're right Z, we're splitting hairs and I think after SoT there was more than one gruffy phase. But I can't help thinking that something really hit him after Hamlet, whether it was SoT finally sinking in or something else that the public doesn't know. He started looking really rough then and looked rather uncomfy or blank at all events and he didn't really do anything noteworthy until Betrayal, if I'm not mistaken.

Just an animated movie and a couple of Loki cameos.

[justzawe]

I hope Zawe has a great Father’s Day with her dad 💙

#dickens vs tolstoy #video

[attemptedvictorian]

Everyone talks about how the Brontë vs Austen debate (which I dont think is very fair considering there are three Brontë sisters with very different books but I digress) is just done because they’re all women, but I disagree. I compare classic authors all the time, for example Dickens vs Tolstoy or maybe Dumas vs Hugo purely for the sake of better understanding the themes of their books and why I prefer one over the other. Yes, I would pick Brontë, Tolstoy, and Dumas, but why? So I can better know what my interests in books are. So yeah, I don’t just compare the Brontës and Austen because they’re women, I do it for everyone to better understand their books in general.

#classic literature #classics #books #literature #libraries #writing #Charlotte Brontë #emily brontë #jane eyre #pride and prejudice #the count of monte cristo #les miserables #charles dickens #dark academia aesthetic #dark acamedia

[issa-artstudio]

April TBR

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #nikolai duology #six of crows #bookaholic #april reads #april tbr #war and peace #leo tolstoy #dickens vs. tolstoy #bookblr #reading

[general-dar-benn]

Dickens vs Tolstoy featuring Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton

#happy birthday tom! #zawe ashton #tom hiddleston #hash #hash wednesday #dickens vs tolstoy

[classiclitbracket]

Classic Lit Bracket-Round Two Part Two: War and Peace vs. A Christmas Carol

#tumblr polls #tumblr bracket #tournament poll #classic literature #classic lit bracket #classic lit bracket round two #war and peace #a christmas carol #leo tolstoy #charles dickens

[wurwurz]

Tom Hiddleston - Dickens VS Tolstoy reading (2018).

#tom hiddleston #hiddlesedit #hiddlestoners #my ♥ gifs #zawe ashton #2018 #dickens vs tolstoy #video

[maryxglz]

intelligence2: "#ThrowbackThursday to this time last year when Tom Hiddleston and @zaweashton performed this excerpt from Anna Karenina in our 'Dickens vs Tolstoy' debate. #iq2 #tomhiddleston #zaweashton"

#tom hiddleston #zawe ashton #iq #intelligence squared #dickens vs tolstoy #throwback