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literarybullshitismylife · 2 years

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Dream of Our Odyssey in the Supermarket (Jess and Rory fic, Jess at Chilton AU)

Chapter 8 is out now!

Summary:

In the library of a large, beautiful, historic house, Rory Gilmore runs into a boy with dark hair, smoking a cigarette, Chilton tie askew. She's still growing accustomed to all the strange faces that populate the school's hallowed halls, but she's seen him before. Poring over a paperback in lunch - the spine always cracked - making some witty but intelligent remark in class, or getting in the occasional argument with Paris Geller. She's noticed him before. Now she can never forget him.

Jess Mariano's life has taken a strange turn over the past year. His absurdly wealthy grandfather has plucked him out of the bowels of lower middle class obscurity and placed him in private school. For the first time in his life, he knows stability, equanimity, or his approximation of it, and, not for the first time of course, a profound restlessness and irritation with the stuck up brats who attend Chilton. He's not expecting Rory Gilmore. He's not prepared for her. He doesn't know if he can ever really be prepared for a hurricane.

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“Well, I don’t know about you, but Dostoyevsky always cheered me up,” He said, glancing at the blackboard.

“Oh, yeah, he’s a treat.”

“You know what they say. The Americans would die for freedom, the French for love, the British for honour, and the Russians will just die.”

“Cheery.”

“Yeah, I thought so.”

#jess and rory #literari #Gilmore girls #Rory gilmore #jess mariano #lane kim #Paris geller #lorelai gilmore #fanfiction #jess at chilton au

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poetryforall · 1 month

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-Rumi

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mylittleredgirl · 1 year

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even if you're not a supernatural fan, if you've been on tumblr long enough you are, like, culturally. like cultural christianity in america except it's the cw's supernatural. you may never have watched an episode or set foot inside the tag but your regular life shuts down on their holidays and all of your world news is delivered through that point of view. something to think about

#while i'm making equivalences we could look at the comparable impacts of the bible on the western literary canon and supernatural on ao3 #edited to add: y'all i have never seen supernatural either that's the post #yes my brain has been rotted by this fandom but the call is coming from outside the house #that tumblr lyfe #containment breach #spn

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hedgehogoftime · 2 months

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Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

#Lord of the Rings #LotR #lotr #literature #fantasy #literary analysis #analysis #Galadriel #Gandalf #The One Ring #Sauron #Sam #Samwise Gamgee #Boromir #Gandalf the Grey #Gandalf the White

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prokopetz · 6 days

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"Why does this 19th Century novel have such a boring protagonist" well, for a lot of reasons, really, but one of the big ones is that you're possibly getting the protagonist and the narrator mixed up.

A lot of 19th Century literary critics had this weird hate-boner for omniscient narrators – stories would straight up get criticised as "unrealistic" on the grounds that it was unlikely anyone could have witnessed their events in the manner described, like some sort of proto-CinemaSins bullshit – so authors who didn't want to write their stories from the first-person perspective of one of the participating characters would often go to great lengths to contrive for there to be a Dude present to witness and narrate the story's events.

It's important to understand that the Dude is the viewpoint character, but not the protagonist. His function is to witness stuff, and he only directly participates in the narrative to the extent that's necessary to explain to the satisfaction of persnickety critics why he's present and how he got there. Giving him a personality would defeat the purpose!

(Though lowbrow fiction was unlikely to encounter such criticisms, the device of the elaborately justified diegetic narrator was often present there as well, and was sometimes parodied to great effect – for example, by having the story narrated by a very unlikely party, such as a sapient insect, or by a party whose continued presence is justified in increasingly comical ways.)

#media #literature #history #literary history #19th century #tropes #swearing

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victusinveritas · 17 days

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Two men fuming in their rooms and writing poems about one another ...

#kendrick lamar #drake #literary slapfights #literary feud #drake vs kendrick

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joytri · 3 months

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If you see beauty in something, don't wait for others to agree.

Sherihan Gamal

#aesthetic #dark academia #coffee #books #academia #college #art #light academia #literature #studyblr #Quotes #literary quotes #inspirational quotes #beauty #sherihan gamal

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icarus-daedaluss · 3 months

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#chaotic academia #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #romantic academia #dark aesthetic #art #books #bookshelf #literary quotes #literature #book quotes #poems and poetry

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booklover · 4 months

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“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.”

― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

#susan sontag #literary birthday

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fairydrowning · 8 months

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"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."

– Charles Bukowski

#light academia #charles bukowski #words #literary quotes #quotations #poetry #spilled thoughts #spilled poem #spilled writing #writers and poets #dark academia #excerpts #fragments #selections

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literarybullshitismylife · 2 years

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Dream of Our Odyssey in the Supermarket (Literari fanfiction, Jess at Chilton AU)

Chapter 7 of my fic is out now!

Summary:

In the library of a large, beautiful, historic house, Rory Gilmore runs into a boy with dark hair, smoking a cigarette, Chilton tie askew. She's still growing accustomed to all the strange faces that populate the school's hallowed halls, but she's seen him before. Poring over a paperback in lunch - the spine always cracked - making some witty but intelligent remark in class, or getting in the occasional argument with Paris Geller. She's noticed him before. Now she can never forget him.

Jess Mariano's life has taken a strange turn over the past year. His absurdly wealthy grandfather has plucked him out of the bowels of lower middle class obscurity and placed him in private school. For the first time in his life, he knows stability, equanimity, or his approximation of it, and, not for the first time of course, a profound restlessness and irritation with the stuck up brats who attend Chilton. He's not expecting Rory Gilmore. He's not prepared for her. He doesn't know if he can ever really be prepared for a hurricane.

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“I don’t really want to talk about it,” She said, looking out the window. He assented silently, and glanced at her, his mouth breaking into a little smile. She opened the window a little, and the breeze caught her hair and she laughed as it flew. Fuck. He couldn't breathe when she looked like that. It took every ounce of self control in him not to reach out and trace the plane of her cheek and her jaw and her neck with his fingers. Still, he couldn’t help it. He tucked a stray hair that had slipped out behind her ear, keeping his eyes focused on the road. She glanced at him, eyes wide, and his fingers accidentally grazed her nose.

“Slipped out,” Was all he could manage. She nodded, looking down at her shoes, blushing, biting her plush lower lip.

“What do you guys talk about?” Jess asked, finally, after a brief silence. “When you’re together.”

“Lots of things,” She said, defensively.

“Like..?”

“Well, like, lots of things. I don’t know. We talk about everything. School and… everything!”

“Okay, okay.”

“Why?” She demanded.

“I don’t know, in the brief and hostile time that I’ve known him… he doesn’t really seem like your kind of guy,” He shrugged.

“Well, he is my kind of guy. He’s exactly my kind of guy.”

“Maybe I don’t know him that well,” Jes had an amused little smile, sparked by her reaction. She crossed her arms.

“You don’t.”

“Sure, sure.”

“You don’t!”

#literari #jessanrory #gilmoregirls #jessatchilton #jess mariano au #lorelai gilmore #Rory gilmore #jess mariano #lane kim #Paris geller #dean forester #fanfiction #archive of our own

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poetryforall · 1 month

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phleb0tomist · 6 months

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tumblr users will have the most inaccessible, unreadable, low contrast, flashing carrd you can possibly imagine, with a dni full of insider acronyms with no translation and numerous link buttons labelled with cryptic captions, and then go ahead and put “ableists dni and kys!” on that carrd

#yeah i’m bitter about carrds becoming so hostile to disabled people #nobody with vision issues or photosensitivity or processing issues or epilepsy or memory issues could possibly read your carrd #small changes like proper colour contrast between background and text can make a world of difference in making your page accessible #even just spelling out the acronyms in your dni or mentioning WHERE a mysterious link will actually lead is so helpful #i see so many links that are just random literary quotes that turn out to lead to a mandatory dni. how would anyone know that??#txt #accessibility #1000

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prokopetz · 1 month

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On the one hand, it's true that the way Dungeons & Dragons defines terms like "sorcerer" and "warlock" and "wizard" is really only relevant to Dungeons & Dragons and its associated media – indeed, how these terms are used isn't even consistent between editions of D&D! – and trying to apply them in other contexts is rarely productive.

On the other hand, it's not true that these sorts of fine-grained taxonomies of types of magic are strictly a D&D-ism and never occur elsewhere. That folks make this argument is typically a symptom of being unfamiliar with Dungeons & Dragons' source material. D&D's main inspirations are American literary sword and sorcery fantasy spanning roughly the 1930s through the early 1980s, and fine-grained taxonomies of magic users absolutely do appear in these sources; they just aren't anything like as consistent as the folks who try to cram everything into the sorcerer/warlock/wizard model would prefer.

For example, in Lyndon Hardy's "Five Magics" series, the five types of magical practitioners are:

Alchemists: Drawing forth the hidden virtues of common materials to craft magic potions; limited by the fact that the outcomes of their formulas are partially random.

Magicians: Crafting enchanted items through complex manufacturing procedures; limited by the fact that each step in the procedure must be performed perfectly with no margin for error.

Sorcerers: Speaking verbal formulas to basically hack other people's minds, permitting illusion-craft and mind control; limited by the fact that the exercise of their art eventually kills them.

Thaumaturges: Shaping matter by manipulating miniature models; limited by the need to draw on outside sources like fires or flywheels to make up the resulting kinetic energy deficit.

Wizards: Summoning and binding demons from other dimensions; limited by the fact that the binding ritual exposes them to mental domination by the summoned demon if their will is weak.

"Warlock", meanwhile, isn't a type of practitioner, but does appear as pejorative term for a wizard who's lost a contest of wills with one of their own summoned demons.

Conversely, Lawrence Watt-Evans' "Legends of Ethshar" series includes such types of magic-users as:

Sorcerers: Channelling power through metal talismans to produce fixed effects; in the time of the novels, talisman-craft is largely a lost art, and most sorcerers use found or inherited talismans.

Theurges: Summoning gods; the setting's gods have no interest in human worship, but are bound not to interfere in the mortal world unless summoned, and are thus amenable to cutting deals.

Warlocks: Wielding X-Men style psychokinesis by virtue of their attunement to the telepathic whispers emanating from the wreckage of a crashed alien starship. (They're the edgy ones!)

Witches: Producing improvisational effects mostly related to healing, telepathy, precognition, and minor telekinesis by drawing on their own internal energy.

Wizards: Drawing down the infinite power of Chaos and shaping it with complex rituals. Basically D&D wizards, albeit with a much greater propensity for exploding.

You'll note that both taxonomies include something called a "sorcerer", something called a "warlock", and something called a "wizard", but what those terms mean in their respective contexts agrees neither with the Dungeons & Dragons definitions, nor with each other.

(Admittedly, these examples are from the 1980s, and are thus not free of D&D's influence; I picked them because they both happened to use all three of the terms in question in ways that are at odds with how D&D uses them. You can find similar taxonomies of magic use in earlier works, but I would have had to use many more examples to offer multiple competing definitions of each of "sorcerer", "warlock" and "wizard", and this post is already long enough!)

So basically what I'm saying is giving people a hard time about using these terms "wrong" – particularly if your objection is that they're not using them in a way that's congruent with however D&D's flavour of the week uses them – makes you a dick, but simply having this sort of taxonomy has a rich history within the genre. Wizard phylogeny is a time-honoured tradition!

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #dungeons & dragons #d&d #worldbuilding #taxonomy #phylogeny #media #literature #history #literary history #death mention

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simplyjustagirlsblog · 6 months

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konvoluted · 1 year

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Interview with Diana Wynne Jones

#Miyazaki will a work of literary fiction and ask ‘is anyone gonna make this gentler??’#diana wynne jones #howl’s moving castle #hayao miyazaki

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