#lit(erature)

[upwardsonwards]

cath... by death cab for cutie genuinely captures the character of cathy earnshaw better than anything i've ever read like it's SO GOOD

#WUTHERING HEIGHTS MY BELOVED #bronte #ash speaks #wuthering heights #lit erature #she holds a smile like someone would hold a crying child................. #take a wild guess at what song i've got on repeat rn

[nochickensinoz]

You maybe in his DMs, but it’s my heartbeat driving him to the point of insanity and a murder confession. We are not the same.

#tell tale heart #edgar allen poe #classic horror #dark academia #chaotic academia #academia memes #literature #LIT-erature #you’re in his dms

[dear-old-pal-of-mine]

"The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished..."

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time vol 1: Swann’s Way, “Combray”

#marcel proust #in search of lost time #lit(erature)

[litgusere]

#hatake kakashi #umino iruka #Agi #ninken #pakkun #crack #lit-erature

[incorrectbatfam]

What would the Batman group chat name be?

Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian, Duke, Stephanie, Carrie: Robins

Jason, Damian, Stephanie: Dead Robins

Dick, Jason, Tim: functionally the oldest

Stephanie, Cassandra, Barbara, Carrie: Batgirl squad

Jason, Damian, Cassandra, Alfred: Murder babies 🥰

Tim, Duke, Cullen, Barbara, Alfred, Bruce: Goncharov

Kate, Alfred, Selina, Bruce: "Adults"

Kate, Alfred, Selina: Adults without quotations

Tim, Damian, Cassandra, Carrie, Bruce: Kitchen Prison 🚫🍳🚫

Tim, Cullen, Harper, Kate, Selina, Bruce: We're here, we're canonically queer

Dick, Damian, Duke, Cassandra: smh white people

Jason, Tim, Damian, Duke, Cullen, Stephanie: Operation Sneak Damian Into An R-Rated Movie

Jason, Tim, Damian, Barbara, Bruce: bats with supers

Dick, Tim, Damian, Bruce: bats with flashes

Jason, Tim, Barbara, Bruce: bats with arrows

Dick, Stephanie, Cassandra, Harper: 🕓🥐

Damian, Duke, Cullen, Carrie: Gotham High Quizlet

Tim, Cullen, Barbara, Harper: tech support

Dick, Tim, Duke, Cullen, Stephanie, Carrie: hi welcome to chili's

Dick, Jason, Stephanie, Cassandra, Barbara, Harper: who let us adult

Duke, Cassandra, Kate, Alfred, Selina: prankster team-up

Jason, Duke, Stephanie, Cassandra: WHOMST'VE

Tim, Duke, Cullen, Stephanie, Cassandra, Harper, Carrie: It's Wednesday my dudes

Jason, Cassandra, Barbara, Alfred, Selina, Bruce: only talk by changing the group name

Dick, Duke, Stephanie, Carrie: the ol' razzle dazzle

Jason, Damian, Duke, Barbara, Alfred: lit(erature) memes

Alfred, Ivy, Ma and Pa Kent: Gardening tips

Damian, Cassandra, Selina: meow meow sightings

Ace, Titus, Alfred the cat, Jerry, Goliath, Bat-Cow, Bitewing: 🐕🐕‍🦺🐈‍⬛🦃👹🐄🦮

Everyone but Dick: Dick pics

Everyone but Damian: WE HAVE THE MEATS 🥩🍗🥓🍖

Everyone but Stephanie: HIDE THE WAFFLES

Everyone but Bruce: Bruce memes

Everyone but Alfred: ok who left Damian at Target

Everyone: slapping the Joker is therapy

#batfamily #batfam #batboys #batbros #batkids #batsiblings #batgirls #batman family #justice league #teen titans #young justice #red hood and the outlaws #gotham rogues #dc comics #headcanon #goncharov #unreality #tw food mention #tw death mention #ask

[knotty-et-al]

As some of you might perhaps know: I have 4 clusters of interests:

Math (Blue)

PhysX (Green)

cogSci+ (includes cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics -> furtherly slightly branching out towards literature and philosophy) (red-and red-adjacent)

Art, LIT(erature) & Philo(sophy)

For the cogSci+ cluster of interests I made that branching illustration/visualisation.

I wrote the words on the foil, not directly at the paper of the drawing.

#science #interests #neuroscience #cognitive science #linguistics #literature #psychology #visualisation #colorful #color sorting #branching #branches #branched #branch

[angelsaxis]

The lit(erature) circle is all talking about books let me get on left hand of darkness Rq.....

#angel posts

[sappho-ilmarinen]

After I'm done with my exams and read all the hot horror I was planning to, I'll fuckin reread The Mirror Visitor series and you cannot stop me. Summer is going to be lit(erature)!

#ilmarinen.txt #the mirror visitor

[suatatan]

Quote from the book Kato Lomb - Polyglot_ how I learn languages-TESL-EJ (2008)_cropped

To those who don’t dare to embark on original, un-abridged literary works immediately, I can recommend adapted texts with all my heart. Th e classics of world lit-erature have been rewritten, for language-learning purposes, into simpler sentences with a reduced vocabulary. Th ey are available in every bookstore, and they can be borrowed from libraries for free, but I don’t recommend the latter. Course books are for scrawling. When they have come apart by too much use, they can be bought again.

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop. If you have the patience to turn the text up and down, inside out, break it into pieces and put it together again, shake it up and let it settle again, you can learn re-markably much from it.

Lajos Kossuth,58 whose orations are given as models in 20th-century English rhetoric books, learned English in an Austrian prison. He used 16 lines of a Shakespeare play as a starting point. “I literally had to surmise English grammar from them. And once I had and perfectly understood the 16 lines, I knew enough English so that I only had to enrich my vocabulary.”

[samuelroukin]

Keep on laying it thick and heavy (‘that’s what Soap said’) because the comic brilliance and sheer unhinged horny is just *chef’s kiss*

Your writing powers are amazing. I never knew magical realism could do this? U created a new genre of lit(pit?)erature. You mad genius 🤌

KJDHJFGHFTS that IS what soap said 😏 you're giving me way too much praise but thank u <3

#also piterature lmao #anon #asks

[pikevin]

On the nature of me and creativity

I would like to start this out by saying that I have unfollowed nearly everyone who I followed on Tumblr. I don't think I followed anyone new since 2015, so it was interesting to see who had posted since then, or rather, who had stopped. many went on to post into this most recent year, but several stopped. Many stopped in 2019-2020. A few stopped even earlier.

I hadn't made a post here since 2015 since I was devastated with issues of the heart. I find myself drawn back here, and here is how. On nights such as these, when I am stressed and cannot seem to do anything productive, I go down the usual rabbit holes. Twitter was boring, and Reddit got repetitive, so I went into the cesspool that is 4chan's /lit/erature board. Please don't think that I align myself with them, but they often have good book recommendations. I learned of the novel Death Comes for the Archbishop. I did not have the novel, nor did I know someone who did, and since I am financially tight right now, I added it to my "Want to read" list on Goodreads. What makes the big difference here is that I was using my laptop and not my phone for all this, so I had the particular displeasure of clearly seeing my profile picture at the top of the screen. I was 18 when I took that. It was over 10 years ago, and I am now nearly 30.

---

To put it wildly, I fell back in time. I thought about where I was then, I had just started college. I had a new computer, new iPad, but I wasn't ready for anything. I definitely wasn't ready with any remote sense of self-control. I somehow managed to make it through that first semester. In fact, that's misleading. I sailed through the first semester, fueled by brilliance, over-confidence, and a competitive spirit, I absolutely soared, making A's and high B's. I thought I was ready.

It was the next semester that killed me. It was that semester where I had to put in actual work or else, I would not learn what I needed to know. I am still bad at putting in hard work; I am better, but still bad. This was the semester where I managed to scrape by. I was in differential equations, got a D, I didn't do the homework. I was in modern physics, got a C or a B-. One of my computer classes had me crying, not because of the difficulty of the material, just because it required work and I had waited until the last minute, and I was panicking.

My friend Michael went to Texas A&M. They didn't have a full physics program, so I didn't go there; being an asshole I told him I wasn't going to A&M because he was going there. There is some truth in that as well. Part of why I didn't go to Texas A&M is because he was going there, I had followed him for a long time. A problem I have is that I cling onto people.

I met Michael in the 3rd grade. He wasn't my best friend then and we had separate classes. He was in the smarter classes, and I was in the regular ones. An Issue that kept me in the regular classes was that I developed a deep anxiety tied with writing stemming from my bad handwriting. I can't say I had friends early on in third grade, I just played whatever was being played. I did have a best friend soon and his name was Pearce, and I did everything he did. He would come over to my house every day and we would play GTA or whatever I had. He kept his PS2 in his backpack. Pearce left pretty quickly at the end of 4th grade, but I was able to transition pretty easily then.

In 4th grade we played together at recess and that is when I really grew to know Michael, we had a Kirby club and would meet under one of the forts. When 5th grade started it was just the two of us. In middle school we were still friends and we had lunch together, but I started making what could be friends in my other classes, again we didn't have the same classes.

Middle school went pretty well, band kept me busy, but I never got far because I never practiced, I wouldn't continue band in high school. One could say that I didn't really socialize at all. I remember an incident in 6th grade where I was bullied. I don't think it was targeted at me, but this kid was slapping kid using the air dryer, and I was a week kid and I cried, and I told a teacher, and he was punished. I was not an angel either then. I wanted to be cool for some other kids, so I tripped a kid with a walking condition, I felt awful then and I feel awful now. I didn't own up to it and said it was an accident. I like to think that I haven't done anything so purposelessly cruel since then.

In 7th and 8th grade, my best friend was Paulo. He liked anime and manga just like I did. That friendship evaporated in high school, as I didn't keep in touch.

In high school, I started having lunch with Michael again not immediately, but I found him, it was then when I went into a real follower. Michael convinced me to join computer science, which I had no interest in until he had taught me to program my calculator and that sparked my interest. That spark turned into a fire and for several years, I would identify with programming as a great love. I would say it has waned in recent years, but I did get my master's in it.

I also joined the social studies club because Jason asked me to. I think, most of what I did was because other people wanted me there.

We had a club in high school called the Japanese Art Club, that was probably the only club that I joined because I wanted to join. It faded away my senior year. Call it poor management.

I didn't want to continue following Michael, and I already was in on the research happening at UH. So that is where I studied physics. In that first semester I had a job as research technician, but I was fired because I wasn't doing the work fast enough. I was barely doing it at all, I had to be self-motivated, still have trouble with that. The person keeping me motivated in my classwork was Jacky. I glommed onto her pretty quickly as and she was my motivation to work hard in my classes that first semester. Then she left.

That second semester I didn't have anyone, and I couldn't connect with the sibling of mine who was going there. I nearly flunked out in the next two semesters.

I went to Wharton County Junior College later to get my core courses done. And since it was all online, I got a job. I started tutoring and that is when I met Diana. I don't think I ever got attached to someone so fast. So, she was my rock for the next year and a half and then she left to get a better job elsewhere.

Long started at the same tutoring center right after her and he and I were fast friends, that was until COVID, and everything went online, and I went stir crazy. I accepted a job from a previous employer and started tutoring somewhat in person again, and worked with an old colleague and my brother, but then my brother started public school teaching in November, and I followed him and started teaching that next August.

There I attached myself to Jessica, and while I admit that I did have a crush early on, it went away quickly. She and I still work together.

---

I think I am a pretty self-aware person. I have attachment issues and issues with putting in effort. Things I struggle with are cleaning, dishes, laundry, reading, sticking to a television show, getting my students work graded in a timely manner.

Most of all I struggle to write. In one of my blind spots of self-awareness I cannot determine whether the want of perfection in writing stems from my earlier anxiety, or if it is an excuse for me to avoid putting in real effort.

I think to the authors George R. R. Martin and John McCrae. George R.R. Martin has been working on the Winds of Winter since 2011, and John McCrae writes nearly 7,000 words a week.

I feel I can land somewhere between that and yet, here I am.

Nothing I write is perfect and nothing I write do I ever want anybody to read.

When I have written, and written well, was when I was writing for someone, someone who wanted to hear the stories I wanted to tell.

#michael #jacky #diana #jessica

[wildereader]

Hello Booklr :)

I'm very much not new to tumblr, but I am new to posting on this side of it! I just want a little place for myself to keep track of what I'm reading, my thoughts, and my goals for this new year. With that being said, I'm McKay, and if you're here, I hope you enjoy my reading thoughts, and I welcome you to share your own!

A bit about me:

Favorite book - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It's been my favorite since I was 17, and I collect different editions of it - I have over 40 now :)

Favorite genres - fantasy, horror, and classics are my nearest and dearest, but I will read almost anything! Variety is the spice of life, after all

Hobbies (other than reading) - writing (fiction and poetry), jewelry making, listening to podcasts, and occasionally gaming

I also work at a library, which is simultaneously fantastic (for all the books) and overwhelming (too many books, constantly confronted with the fact that I will never be able to read everything ever written in the history of humanity)

This is a sideblog - my main is all shitposts and fandom stuff and I rarely use it for original posts. I used to be very active on my classic literature blog (@thisblogislit-erature), but since I read more than just classic lit and I hardly ever post anything to that one anymore, I wanted a fresh start

All this being said, I'm excited to begin chronicling my 2024 reading journey! Hopefully it'll be a good one :)

#mckay speaks #bookblr #booklr #bookworm #reading journal #fantasy books #horror books #classic literature #read with me #bibliophile #libraries

[dear-old-pal-of-mine]

"...in pronouncing the name, I had secured a sort of power over it, by the mere act of drawing it up out of my dreams and giving it an objective existence in the world of spoken things."

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time vol 1: Swann's Way, "Combray"

#marcel proust #in search of lost time #lit(erature)

[litgusere]

I'm writing!!!!

#hatake kakashi #kakashi hatake #umino iruka #iruka umino #Agi #summons #lit-erature

[babyawacs]

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[braveblackbutterfly]

September is going to be lit(erature)!

Going to two different book events next month, and I get to go for free.

📚😊📚

#bbb butterfly