#lesbianaglaya

[mendedserpent]

🔥 on whatever you’d like :)

hi gabby!!

I don’t like dark academia like I’ve tried a lot to like it but (ALMOST) everything written in the “genre” since secret history feels incredibly shallow to me. if we were v*llains especially was just. sooooooo bad. that said I love the secret history! so who’s to say truly.

#ari.txt #thank you gabby for giving me this space to be a hater #lesbianaglaya #answered

[eskewcity]

15 and 19 for the book asks <3

15. an underrated book? little eyes by samantha schweblin

19. a book u came across randomly but ended up loving it? Severance by ling ma

#asks #lesbianaglaya #sorry I forgot to answer but best for last :3

[nedlittle]

top five classic novels!!

as always we need a caveat that i have so much love in my heart that choosing favourites is hard and i'm gonna exclude some big heavy hitters from this year that are fresh in my mind and instead focus on the ones that absolutely have vacation space in my frontal lobe

rebecca (daphne du maurier) - i relate to the narrator saying she "shall never be rid of rebecca" because Me Too girl!! a gateway drug into classics. absolutely intoxicating without a word misplaced or misspent. i enjoyed reading it more for the second time not only because i knew the plot but because there was so much of any given theme to stick your teeth into (i had colour coded highlights for gender and doubling in addition to general excellent prose/foreshadowing). a whole thesis could be written about the ways that rebecca and the narrator both perform androgyny--the narrator essentially fails at performing any sort of gender, rebecca is too good at androgyny and that is what kills her. not to toot my own horn with the one decent line in my otherwise incomprehensible review but: "while rebecca sails freely between masculinity and femininity, not-rebecca drift unmoored between both." i could write more about the structure and point of view but i am big sleepy so unfortunately that post will half to solely exist in the hypothetical. i am always thinking about rebecca

wuthering heights (emily bronte) the thing about wuthering heights is that the first time i read it all the way through i gave it 2.5 stars and was absolutely enthralled by what it lacked and then like 5 months later i think emily bronte personally tunnelled into my brain and compelled me to bump the rating up to 4. at first i was just like Oh the ghosts they story is stuck in a time loop while the rest of the world moves the only way it can be broken is if the cycle of abuse is also broken which is True but the more i thought about it the less i actually thought of the ghosts (shocking i know) and more the possibility of rancid trans rep t4t cathy & heathcliff. cathy trying to get around gender like it's a blocked path and ultimately dying because of compulsory femininity. heathcliff determined to make up for what society sees as a deficit (his race) with his gender, playing four-dimensional chess with his gender trying to find the one (1) way to Do It Right which ultimately means deliberately emulating all the worst parts of masculinity so he has some modicum of power. this WILL be a post in the future and that is a threat.

hamlet. i don't need to say anything more about this one. we've unfortunately all seen the horatio monologue that people keep tagging as poetry even though the word MONOLOGUE is in the first line of the description.

the brothers karamazov (fyodor dostoevsky) frankly an insane choice for my first fedya d especially given the circumstances but man....mitya karamazov is one of the Characters Of All Time. honestly it took me a longass time to read because uhhh being intensely suicidal in a tiny studio apartment with a job you only took for convenience's sake in huge and unfamiliar country during a global pandemic is not the best environment to read your first dostoevsky in but also is maybe the most appropriate. so it took me a while to read and at first i wasn't sure if i understood half of what i was reading but gave it 4 stars for sheer craft and then maybe a week later it really hit me how good it was. i am Not Immune to atreus house. one of the readings i like to consider is somewhat basic but seeing it as biographical specifically alyosha as a mirror of dostoevsky's son alyosha who died at 3 from epileptic complications. book as a mirror and a shrine and a grave all at once. also i'm legally required to mention the unwritten brothers k sequel brothers k ii: alexey kills the tsar. my literary white whale. i have never wanted to read a book more and this one doesn't even exist. kill me! your slave and enemy!

the epic of gilgamesh. bro. bro. 1400 years old and it's a deceptively simple story about transformative love and the earth-shattering grief that comes from losing that love. please refer to my post about how gilgamesh and the velveteen rabbit are fundamentally the same story. it turns out that my method for answering asks is to just type until i run out of ideas and get so sleepy thank you goodnight

#lesbianaglaya #answered #lit #once again my condolences to anyone who has to read and/or scroll past this #what can i say i love explaining things and have a lot of thoughts also my keyboard makes funky clicky noises so typing is fun

[galpalkirk]

Happy birthday fish!!! Hope you had a great day ❤️🎉

Thank you Gabby! I have 🥰

#lesbianaglaya

[cassowarywary]

[ID: 6 images with fanart from I am in Eskew, all of which say “Wettest Guy Award.” 1: Hand with REM carved into it and words underneath: David "dripping and stewing in a silence that now seems inescapably lonely" Ward. 2: Blood and oil stained hammer with the words underneath: David “It’s been a difficult few months, and the rain never stops, and I am so alone" Ward. 3: David at the top of the Royal Society staircase as it burns around him with the words underneath: David "I’m particularly fond of floods" Ward. 4: David walking over the old railway bridge between two lampposts with the words: David "“I don’t know what went wrong with you,” she’d say" Ward. 5: A pool with black roots coming up from the bottom and the words: David “clenched mandrake child of pain and sorrow, flinching at the world’s touch” Ward. 6: Hospital bathroom where David is unwinding bandages which spill across the floor with the words: David “Milked” Ward. /End ID]

#David may have lost but we know the truth #wettest soggiest guy ever #I am now realizing I have aboslutely zero art of David but you get the vibe #there were so many lines I could have used for this but half of them are ones I have memorized and half of them were from lesbianaglayas #eskew quotes post

[lesbianaglaya]

see the problem with the heroes of olympus series is that it is fundamentally unwilling to do a final push against authority, no matter how awful the authority is, because the narrative refuses to recognize a complete reorganization of its system as a viable option. and this does all stem from the simple lazy writing choice of not wanting to analyze how the resolution of one series changes the way the world works and figuring out what the new sources of tension would be if old ones were resolved. but still if you were going to simply not have the gods change at all could it have been interesting? Could it have been dynamic? Yes but these all require a serious questioning of if the gods should in fact be overthrown. and the books can’t distinguish the violent scorched earth trading bad for bad approach of the titan rebellion in the first series from like. The concept of complete systemic reform much LESS actual revolutionary change. so instead your left with a teenage protagonist with a central character trait of rebelling against authority to do what’s right faced with a system that has proven itself not only unwilling to follow through with the most basic reforms but willing to traumatize the children stuck in it to even greater depths just to remain in power. but because you’re only okay with rebelling up to a point because its not actually how bad the authority that ‘justifies’ revolution it is just how acceptable you deem them to be rebelled against that matters when it comes to if the narrative will allow their defeat, said protagonist instead becomes a jaded and defeated shell. And Then You Say He’ll Be Seventeen Forever.

#welcome to lesbianaglaya dot tumblr dot com where we spin a roulette wheel to see if the next post is going to be making fun of real life #author lev nikolaevich tolstoy for being a weird little freak. or if you will be getting rants on middle grade series that is 10 years old #anyway. time traveling back to 2019 when i was in the same room as rick riordan and forcing him to release percy into my care like its 2011 #anyway. posts from a guy who started the year of by rereading all of son in a day. for some reason. #gabby.txt

[llovelymoonn]

Hello!!! I love your web weaving, it's truly one of the best I've ever seen here on Tumblr 💖 I was hoping you could make something about homesickness and longing to be somewhere else? I'm far away from my home right now and even though I want to be where I am now, I still miss my home and the people there so badly. Something along the lines of the concept of saudade/hiraeth and the main chorus from Florence and the Machine's "Wish You Were Here"? Thank you so much!!!

@lesbianaglaya \\ michael spence saudade \\ florence + the machine wish that you were here \\ noah kahan homesick \\ steve kronen du bellay's homesickness

kofi

#asks #on self #on life #homo-varsoviensis #on homesickness #on longing #on nostalgia #mine #my webweaving #webweaving #web weaving #webweave #web weave #web #webs #ww #parallel #parallels #parallelism #compilation #compilations #intertext #intertextuality #comparative #comparatives #michael spence #saudade #florence + the machine #florence and the machine #wish that you were here

[obeetlebeetle]

speaking of tag games! i was tagged by @louisegluckpdf to share my top 9 books of 2023 or 9 books from my tbr list for 2024.

i dont actually keep track of my reading so i dont rmbr enough to provide 9 favs from last year, so tbr it is! also i dont keep tbr lists. so these are just sourced from the things i have checked out/on hold rn that i think i might actually read in full. + atn like hey it could happen

tagging @emotionsandphenomena, @oranges-and-pears, @lesbianboyfriend, @familyabolisher, @avantguardisme, @qvincvnx, @deermouth, @gideonthefirst, @phosphorusandpetra, @violetthetroll, @resemblingthegrave, @weird-ecologies, @lesbianaglaya & @ anyone who feels like doing it💗

#ik ppl always say that last part but fr. i will be using this to farm for new library holds so go for it

[sexcromancy]

tag meme! tag 9 people you want to get to know better. tagged by @jessaerys

3 ships: beronica, johnlock, joshdonna

first ship ever: crowfeather/leafpool and ginny/luna are probably tied for timing. but the first ship I ever went truly crazy over online was kurt hummel+sam evans :) real ones know

last movie watched: used to be I watched movies all the time but I literally haven't in months. tv ruined me. I think my last was 101 dalmations

last song: as if we never said goodbye (glee version) bc I started thinking abt kurt while writing this post

currently reading: everything for everyone which is so FUCKING good, and a compilation of YA meet cute short stories that are mostly bad </3

currently watching: d20 fantasy high+neverafter, andor, I want to start yellowjackets so fucking bad every day I wake up and say maybe today I will start yellowjackets. and the grishaverse show comes back tomorrow. there's too much tv

currently consuming: I made rlly good french onion pasta for dinner. no dessert but a patron brought us cupcakes at work

currently craving: oysters and top surgery

tagging some of my recently forged mutuals who I'd love to get to know! @lesbianaglaya @rotmance @commontrait @selchielesbian @olreid @sophelstien + my old reliables @obeetlebeetle @yellowcharm @the-walking-spoiler

[lakecoded]

tagged by gabby @lesbianaglaya to post 5 books i plan to read in 2023! <3

less is lost by andrew sean greer

severance by ling ma

ducks by kate beaton

harrow by joy williams

lurkers by sandi tan

tagging @taros @chalet2000 @blacksails2014 @liapher @glowtouched

#all of these i either have out from the library or on kobo so. hopefully will read them all soon #thanks gabby!! ❣️ #isabel.txt

[duinoelegies]

tagged by @sashacore, thank you 🖤

Last show: The Wilds. I do enjoy complicated teenage girls as characters, it has to be said.

Last song: 'Leaving the City'. Ms Newsom call me

Currently watching: I haven't started anything new, but I do need to get around to watching Black Sails and The Owl House s2 eventually. taking recs also <3

Currently reading: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett and it's incredible so far, both in the way it approaches passing and performing and in how skillfully constructed it is.

tagging @lesbianaglaya @ibuprofengirl @geminipdf

[mendedserpent]

happy birthday ari!!!! have a great day!!!

thank you so much gabby!!!!

#ari.txt #answered #lesbianaglaya

[eskewcity]

4 and 19 ❤️

4. what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

Usually horror or sci-fi or fantasy. I don’t read a lot of contemporary work unless I’ve heard good things about it from someone I trust

19. most disliked popular books?

Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

#asks #lesbianaglaya

[nedlittle]

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@lesbianaglaya tagged me to list 5 books i want to read this year and i decided to choose 10 because i am chronically indecisive

tagging @murraybaeman @jeynepoole @elizabethtaylors @leftenantjopson and anyone else who want to do it :)

#books #lit #id in alt text #there are at minimum three different vibes at play here and i don't know what any of them are #hoping to get 2 maybe 3 of these read in january depending on how well my brain works #if you have read any of these....please weigh in

[olreid]

for the dashboard osmosis i have to ask. your impression of russian literature which is not a fandom

it is if you believe in yourself : ) ok first i think aglaya is a character from russian literature . obviously she is a lesbian so good for her . i think the book i know the most about is the brothers karamazov which is like . daddy issues central but i think your favorite is the idiot? there is a hedgehog somehow and a big party and everyone is bonkers . this is what i know

dashboard osmosis time

#asks #lesbianaglaya

[vesselofthebook]

Happy Birthday Hayley!!!

thank you gabby!! <3

#asks #answered #lesbianaglaya