#jim shepard

[in-love-with-movies]

The World to Come (2020)

#The World to Come #filmedit #Katherine Waterston #Vanessa Kirby #Mona Fastvold Lerche #Jim Shepard #my gifs #movie gifs #🌈 #perioddramaedit

[simpsonns]

a/n: This is my first ever fanfic so bear with me. There is no content of this man so I wrote something because ahhhh

warning: this is not proof read (I’m dyslexic) and is probs terrible

summary: Readers saves Jim yay

It had already happened. It was too late to save Jim. He was the victor and he was about to claim his price. A part of him knew something was wrong, he could tell by the eagerness of officer rick, hand resting on his gun.

He looked down through the crowd of people dancing, all the happiness and love shared by the people that made the room warm and humid. Then he saw her, the girl who came to stop this stupid tradition. But the animalistic nature of teenage boys was too much for one girl to stop.

She had a-lot of rumors around. People said she went off the deep end after her only friend, the winner of last year’s run left town. Jim always admired her from a far, the beauty of the girl was something he had never witnessed before. It was like the universe had made him just for her. He never looked in her eyes until after he killed sawtooth jack, when he did, he saw someone who looked as though someone had just savagely murdered their best friend. And in a way he did.

After the crowd lifted him the air and the wave of adrenaline came down, he went to her as she wept over sawtooths body.

She explained everything.

He was going to die.

Jim walked through the crowd to the girl. Letting her magnetism pull him in. She walked to him, because in this universe she felt the same. Meeting in the middle of the dance floor they made a plan. To leave this stupid town.

He knew what needed to be done, but she was the one who had the heart to do it. They met at the crossing, a shotgun and pistol were loaded into the car and they simply drove away.

The sheriff wasn’t far behind, but they knew what they had to do to stop him. The car reached a screeching halt, one look was shared between the two. After Jim left the car and followed the sheriff to grave that had been dug dozens of times. She followed. And so did death.

One shot for the sheriff, and one for the farmer.

Once back on the road it was clear, even though they had stopped the cycle, all they had become was monsters themselves.

As they drove to freedom through the night there were no words shared just grief for the people they left behind, the people who didn’t get the treatment of a victor.

It was vowed that next year they would save Richie, to give him the same freedom they were yet to share.

#jim shepard x reader #dark harvest #jim shepard #jim sheperd #dark harvest fanfic #dark harvest movie #dark harvest 2023 #first fanfic

[doloresdisparue]

If in Marianne Moore’s famous formulation “Poetry is imaginary gardens with real toads in them,” Lolita offers the reader one of the most jaw-droppingly intricate and pleasurable of gardens with the understanding that its negotiation will necessitate an encounter with some of the very ugliest toads.

Jim Shepard - Lolita and the Empathetic Imagination

#jim shepard #lolita #lolita novel #vladimir nabokov

[marrziy]

Quando a gente vai assistir um filme qualquer e se depara com um gatinho

#dark harvest #britain dalton #horror movies #jim shepard #dark harvest 2023 #dark harvest movie

[xbhaalspawnx]

Is anyone gonna write for Dark Harvest 2023? Or am I gonna have to come up with little scenarios in my head?

#dark harvest 2023 #dark harvest #jim shepard #richie shepard #mitch crenshaw #bud don't know his last name #kelly haines

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Jim Shepard #The PEN O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 #Shepard #individualism #compassion #empathy #solidarity

[quotespile]

She said that too often my tongue worked but not my head, or my head worked but not my heart.

Jim Shepard, The Book of Aron

#literature #quotes #Jim Shepard #The Book of Aron #quote #books #lit

[shortstorytournament]

Short Story Tournament

THE ZERO METER DIVING TEAM by Jim Shepard (2007) (link) - tw: death, radiation poisoning

Here’s what it’s like to bear up under the burden of so much guilt: everywhere you drag yourself you leave a trail. Late at night, you gaze back and view an upsetting record of where you’ve been.

THE WIFE'S STORY by Ursula K Le Guin (1982) (link) - tw: death

He was a good husband, a good father. I don’t understand it. I don’t believe in it. I don’t believe that it happened. I saw it happen but it isn’t true.

#short story tournament #jim shepard #ursula k le guin #the zero meter diving team #the wifes story #round 2 #polls

[devious-little-milkmaiden]

Behold, the holy quintiparite of 19th-20th century gays:

Gay Cowboys

Gay Pirates

Gay Scientists

Gay Whalers

Gay Blue Collar Workers

#meme #writing #memes #shitpost #writeblr #creative writing #writers #gay memes #gay #moby dick #love and hydrogen #butch cassidy and the sundance kids #paul newman #jim shepard #frankenstein #our flag means death #blackbonnet #ed ofmd #ofmd edward teach #ofmd stede #robert redford #taika waititi #mary shelly's frankenstein #mary shelley

[contac]

#KFVS #Cape Girardeau #Missouri #1986 #80s dudes #vhs #gif #80s fashion #80s tech #happy holidays #dave heise #mike wunderlich #danny walters #jim shepard #television station #broadcasting #video equipment

[simplementevelasquez]

El mundo por venir

«"The world to come" es una película lésbica de 2021 protagonizada por Katherine Waterston (Trilogía de Fantastic Beasts, Alien Covenant) y Vanessa Kirby (About time, Mi7). La historia está basada en un relato del reconocido autor Jim Shepard»

Puede que esta sea una de las historias lésbicas más bellamenteescritas hasta ahora. Y sí, la escribió un hombre. 2021 © L. V. Velásquez y SimplementeVelasquez.com. El uso no autorizado y / o la duplicación de este material sin el permiso expreso y por escrito del autor y/o propietario de este sitio está estrictamente prohibido. Se pueden usar extractos y enlaces, siempre que se otorgue un…

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#amor #Cine #Cine lesbico #cine queer #Jim Shepard #Katherine Waterston #Libros #literatura #Literatura LGBT #Peliculas lesbicas #Vanessa Kirby

[catmint1]

Lately, it’s started to seem to me that here in America, our fetishization of self-reliance has taken a wrong turn and has helped enable us to jettison compassion as a national value while still maintaining a vision of ourselves as essentially well-meaning. It hasn’t taken a whole lot of common sense, given the evidence of the last few years, to puzzle out the heartlessness of unregulated capitalism, and yet our political class has embraced even more fervently the notion of every man for himself, even given the ever-growing numbers such a philosophy leaves behind.

Jim Shepard, The PEN, O. Henry Prize Stories 2012

#quotes #jim shepard #the PEN #o. henry prize stories #compassion #politics #inhumanity #social reform #advocacy #text

[doloresdisparue]

“But for all of Humbert’s metafictional jokes and gestures to the puppeteer just offstage, we’re continually reminded of the monstrousness of what he did and what he’s doing. The suavely fictional John Ray Jr., PhD, opens the narrative with the reminder that its protagonist speaks through a mask, thereby alerting us to be aware of those moments when the mask slips, and we track the tension between Humbert Humbert’s real despair on the one hand and his compensatory jollity and half-sincere attempts to claim himself not entirely guilty on the other. Throughout his kidnapping and serial sexual abuse of the child in his charge, he seeks to pretend first that she was so ordinary-girl-oblivious to his pathetic and barely noticeable ministrations that he barely bothered her, and then that he was so focused on his own obsessive needs that he never noticed her suffering. One of the novel’s great achievements is the piercing eloquence with which it blows up both claims. Humbert chronicles with an only slightly theatrical shame the way he threatened Lolita with a reformatory in order to continue her compliance; he recounts the way even her high fevers rarely deterred him, since neither her feelings nor condition were really an issue; and he even admits having considered as a solution to Lolita’s aging producing with her a Lolita the Second and Third. He allows us any number of glimpses of Lolita’s true misery, with this one, about halfway along through the novel, perhaps the most wrenching:

We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night—every night, every night—the moment I feigned sleep.”

- Jim Shepard || Lolita and the Empathetic Imagination

#jim shepard #vladimir nabokov #humbert humbert #lolita #lolita novel

[xinesegalas]

2022 Best Books Read in Review

Better late than never - my 2022 Best Books Read in Review. It was a good year for reading.

Despite 2022 being a bit of a tough year for me, it had its highlights too. The high for me was publishing my memoir – Xine’s Pack of Strays & Others, and having my father read the book. The lows – there were a few, including two deaths. My ex-husband and father of my two children died suddenly of a massive heart attack in June. And for a good part of the year, my father was battling congestive…

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#A Three Dog Life #Abigail Thomas #Amy Hempel #audiobook reviews #audiobooks #Book Club #book recommendations #books #Cat&039;s Cradle #Colleen Hoover #Elizabeth Gilbert #Jhumpa Lahiri #Jim Shepard #Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions #Kate Quinn #Kurt Vonnegut #My Sister The Serial Killer #Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi #Oyinkan Braithwaite #Pip Williams #Sara Nisha Adams #Shad Helmstetter #The Dictionary of Lost Words #The Namesake #The Power of Neuroplasticity #The Reading List #The Rose Code #The Signature of All Things #Unleashed Poems by Writers&039; Dogs #Verity

[noidedgirl]

ok so i read this book project x by Jim Shepard a while ago, about two boys who stage a school shooting. very very interesting. it was simple but good, and solid, and i loved the main character. it was interesting how the shooting wasn’t until the very last page, and how Edwin was more like a ghost than any actual hard-hearted killer. Flake was also an odd character.

i felt we missed a lot of context. that this story was just a very small SLICE. no before and no after. just the slice. which was both frustrating and freeing. i would like some sort of sequel, or perhaps explanation. what was going on in the authors mind when he wrote it? maybe i should write him…

#project x #jim shepard #txt

[my-beloved-lakes]

I started rewatching White collar with my little sister last night. When Mark Shepard's character showed up and the little tune that plays any time Sterling shows up in leverage didn't play, it legitimately felt so wrong we had to pause the episode! Like what do mean that little tune doesn't follow Mark Shepard around in everything he does!?

#white collar #mark Shepard #leverage #jim sterling