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intopermanence · 17 days

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(You indent my soul.)

Annabella of Ely, from Poems I-LXVII: “XLIV”

#Annabella of Ely #Found literature #non-fiction #poetry

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mangotalkies · 1 year

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"after all, how can one feel the loss of a thing whose existence one has become unconscious to?"

a wonderful collection of essential and constant truth bombs.

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leohtttbriar · 2 years

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Limestone, in particular, has long been a geology of burial–in part because it is so common globally, in part because its erosive tendencies create so many natural crypts into which bodies may be laid, and in part because limestone is itself, geologically speaking, a cemetery. Limestone is usually formed of the compressed bodies of marine organisms–crinoids and coccolithophores, ammonites, belemnites and foraminifera–that died in waters of ancient seas and then settled in their trillions on those seabeds.

Underland: A Deep Time Journey, Robert Macfarlane

#literature #non-fiction

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watchoutforintellect · 2 months

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easily becoming, through an open eye, monstrous and beautiful.

Patti Smith, from Woolgathering

#lit #literature #patti smith #quotes #words #woolgathering #memoirs #diary #non fiction #writing

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moonkissedmeli · 1 year

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literally not a single soul asked

but, i'm going to share anyway. here are my favorite reads this year in no particular order:

Fiction - Novels

Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" (Honestly, a masterpiece. I can't wait to devour his entire library. Read it. No notes.)

Leo Tolstoy's "Ana Karenina" (If you're looking for your next existential crisis, here ya go.)

Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" (I know I'm super late reading this and the whole world has already been in love with it for ages, now I finally know why.)

Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (In all fairness, this is on my list every year).

Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein" (This is also always on my list, idec. Shelly's monster may teach you a bit about being human.)

Stephen's Fry's "Mythos" (Honestly, just a super fun read. Really good starting point if you're a budding Hellenic or into ancient Greek mythology, in my opinion. As long as you take it as a starting off point for further research and understand that he has put it together to be entertaining.)

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" (You will never love a book so much where 97% of the characters and their actions are entirely insufferable. You might wonder why you began, but won't be able to stop and will be grateful that you didn't. Handsomely and meticulously written, as well.)

Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian" (Historians, anthropologists, romance, and vampires. Chef's kiss.)

Madeline Miller's "Circe" (I JUST LOVE IT OKAY)

Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" (I will never take criticism about this book. No notes, lmao.)

Fiction - Novellas

H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwitch Horror"

H.P. Lovecraft's "The Lost City"

H.P. Lovecraft's "The Festival"

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla"

Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" (Every moment of this will have you saying what the actual fuck lmao)

Non-Fiction

Viktor Frankl's "A Man's Search For Meaning" (Just saying, this is written by a Holocaust survivor who is also a psychologist. There are graphic depictions of his sufferings. Major trigger warnings and all that - but, I still highly recommend as this is a really life changing book. His message and eloquence touched me in an indescribable way.)

Walter Burkett's "Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical" (Really, I recommend this as required reading to all Hellenics and those interested in ancient Greek religion.)

Dorsey Armstrong's audiobook, "Medieval Myths & Mysteries"

Lacy Collison-Morley's "Greek and Roman Ghost Stories"

Anne Baring and Jules Cashford's "Myth of the Goddess: An Evolution of an Image"

Estelle B. Freedman's "The Essential Feminist Reader"

Alexandra Kollontai's "The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman"

Bernadotte Perrin's Translation of Plutarch's "The Parallel Lives" (Juicy Roman drama).

Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations"

Robert Graves' Translation of Suetonius' "The 12 Caesars" (Juicy Roman tea, with a hint of bias though)

#2022 #books of 2022 #history #ancient greece #ancient rome #fiction #non-fiction #dark academia #book list #favorite books #bookworms of tumblr #h.p. lovecraft #vampires #gothic romance #cosmic horror #literature #reading #books

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alienejj · 1 month

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thrifted bookish finds 19/feb/24

I took these pictures myself. Some of these books are old, some were just poorly handled over the years, and all were thrifted across the second-hand stores of Dublin.

i know the economy is going to shit only when the price of used books in second hand stores collectively rises over the weekend. and the irish economy is after taking another hit recently according to my wallet :(

ten books but no candles or postcards today:

Holy Land, Unholy War by Anton Guardia.

Empire of Pain by Patrick Keefe.

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.

The Ancient Wisdom of the Celts by Murray Hope.

The Library Of Trinity Dublin College.

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk.

A Short History of Ireland by Sean McMahon.

Granuaile; Ireland's Pirate Queen by Anne Chambers.

Everywoman by Derek Jones.

Sailing to Byzantium; a Poetry Anthology by W. B. Yeats.

This is part of my 'bookish thrifting finds' posts.

I reblog bookish content and since I have a home library I also I also make bookish content myself. My home library consists of mainly thrifted books across all kinds of genres. On my blog, you'll find all sorts of typical bookblr content; aesthetic book pics, reviews, recommendations, quotes, excerpts, thrift store hauls, and cats. I also post updates on bookish hobbies I do, such as bookmark making, pressing flora, drying flowers, postcard making, and letter writing.

Consult the pinned NAVIGATION post to navigate your way xx

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galina · 1 year

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Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen, Rebecca May Johnson

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yoonrambles · 4 months

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Unhinged Headcanon: Clarence reads (and probably writes) fanfiction.

#hear me out #me and my friend were discussing stuff and this came uo #dude likes literature and he literally reads the shit out of books (mostly non fiction but hey he probs reads anything he finds interesting #dude is also the type to read the terms of service so... why not fanfics too?#he also puts mature themes in children stories so..... fanfi-#bro fixes your grammar without filter and that's beta reader culture #thus... i hereby confirm that Clarence secretly reads fanfiction #lovebrush chronicles #clarence clayden #clarence #‎ ‎ ‎ ✎‎ ‎ ‎ | Yoon's reveries

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fightingwithallreality · 9 months

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Yi Ma (2008) written and illustrated by Mao Xiao

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intopermanence · 1 year

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You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.

Sylvia Plath, from “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”

#Sylvia Plath #American literature #non-fiction #journals

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mangotalkies · 10 months

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currently reading (at snail’s pace)

i’ve never juggled between such vastly different, yet equally heavy genres before. one boggles my mind with yet another unexplored aspect of indian history, another makes me realise how little i know about the world, and the last one could’ve just been a twitter thread.

“we said goodbye to our mothers. they’d been around all our lives, but we’d never properly seen them. they’d been bent over washing tubs or cooking pots, their faces red and swollen from heat and steam, holding everything together while our fathers were away at sea, and nodding off every night on the kitchen chair, with a darning needle in hand. it was their endurance and exhaustion we knew, rather than them."

- we, the drowned by carsten jensen

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ceramicteapot · 1 month

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i sit at my desk and shut my books closed as i physically cannot keep myself from crying anymore. the clock ticks away without a care in the world. with knots in my chest, it dawns on me- I'm alone.

i'm alone and the world won't wait for me and it won't be kind to me. people will always find a way to say something mean, be mean. the clock will always tick away. everyone will keep moving, even if i stand still in the same place for the rest of my life.

so i clutch my pen tighter. i scream into the empty room, empty house. the good part about being alone is the space you get. the good part is that you don't have to hide to not be seen.

i pick up my brush and untangle the mess my hair has become. it goes up in a bun after ages. so what if no one waits for me? what if they're all mean and I'm alone? i can keep moving too. i can keep being kind. i can be the figure i never had.

and maybe, just maybe, one day i'll meet someone like myself. or maybe someone better. and everything- every tear, every wound, every remark, every failure- it'll finally have a witness. it'll have acceptance other than the one i can give to myself.

i'll have someone who loves me better.

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watchoutforintellect · 2 months

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Careful how you bare yer soul Careful not to bare it at all

Patti Smith, from Woolgathering

#lit #literature #patti smith #quotes #words #woolgathering #memoir #journal #diary #non fiction

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sassafrasmoonshine · 2 months

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Sean Qualls • American picture book illustrator

Sean Qualls has illustrated many non-fiction books for children. Pictred above is a sampler of illustrations for: Grandad Mandela, Lullaby ( based on a poem by Langston Hughes); Lower right: an untitled painting; lower left, illustration for the book Why am I Me?

#illustration #art #illustrator #artwork #painting #sean qualls #american artist #black american artist #non-fiction for children #children's literature #contemporary book illustration #contemporary illustrator #kid lit #african american illustrator #book illustration #illustration blog #sassafras and moonshine blog

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variousqueerthings · 1 year

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Some stuff about queer culture in Weimar Berlin

Note: Das Institut für Sexualwissenschaft does not have a definitively used translation from what I see -- have seen Institute of Sexology (my preferred translation), Sexual Science, Sexual Research, Sexual Knowledge etc. It’s all the same place.

any further suggestions, feel very welcome to add!

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ONLINE:

the wikipedia for the institute: yeah, yeah it’s wikipedia, but get some groundwork done here if you know nothing at all, so the next set of recommendations don’t overwhelm you

Remembering Dora Richter, One of the First Women to receive Gender-Affirming Surgery: good introduction to the Institute of Sexology, with a focus on one of the women who lived, worked, and received care there

On the Clinics and Bars of Weimar Berlin: a more in-depth article about the institute, some of the people who sought to get support via it, and the surrounding culture of the time

The Magnus Hirschfeld Society: a lot of their work is published online, in German, French, and English. Hours of fun.

Interview with the author Laurie Marhoefer: discussing his book (mentioned below) Sex and the Weimar Republic, which focuses on various fronts to sexual liberation in the Weimar Republic, including the limitations of assimilationist approaches*

*Marhoefer is currently working on their third book centred on queer persecution during the Third Reich, which “centrally analyzes racism as a vector of persecution,” so that’s something to keep an eye out for too

The Asian Canadian gay activist whose theories on sexuality were decades ahead of their time: an article about Li Shiu Tong, by Marhoefer, who also wrote a book about him (see below). The title really says it all

The Transvestite Magazine of Weimar Berlin: a series of magazines that were published until 1933 when the crackdown on queer rights resulted in the destruction of the Institute of Sexology, featuring examples of voices almost completely overlooked -- transvestites who were simply living their lives

The Institute for Sexualwissenschaft: this blog post goes into something I’ve been thinking as well -- the parallels between the anti-queer/anti-trans violence perpetuated by the German government before, during, and after the Nazis and the anti-queer/anti-trans rhetoric and violence today. Where would we be if all that research had survived? (and luckily, some of it has!)

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BOOKS

Der Liebe und Dem Leid: Das Institut für Sexualwissenschaft 1919-1933: a recent German historical account of the institute of Sexology that I desperately want to get my hands on

Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis: explores intersectional fights for queer emancipation during the Weimar Republic and its limitations

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love: goes deeper into the story of Li Shiu Tong, who was an impressive researcher at the institute and whose contribution to sexual and gender philosophies is being reconsidered at the moment!

Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement: a biography of Magnus Hirschfeld and his central role in the queer liberation movement of the time

The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany: looks at the depictions of women who didn’t conform to standard gendered and sexual expectations from 1918-1933 and explores their role to understand gendered lives and experiences at this point in German history

The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture: a book I desperately want to read on anti-queer violence in the early 20th century, focusing on the Institute of Sexology and its destruction, which has gathered archival material from “over a hundred published and unpublished books, articles, films and photographs.”

Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity: another broader book about Berlin. I’m interested in the subtitle “birthplace of a modern identity” as potentially exploring the ways Berlin was the centre of explorations that despite the Nazis best efforts are still alive and -- with setbacks -- remembered today

Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A History, 1880-1945: Idk what to tellya it’s about queer identities and politics in Germany between 1880-1945

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ISHERWOOD

British author Christopher Isherwood spent some time in Berlin, notably including a stay at the Institute of Sexology. This time resulted in “The Berlin Stories,” as well as a section in “Christopher and his Kind” (his autobiography).

These stories were turned into the play+film “I Am A Camera” and the musical+movie “Cabaret”

The 1993 Alan Cumming and Jane Horrocks Cabaret (one of my favourite things in the world)

Opening of the 1972 movie

(according to a 1977 biography of Isherwood, he denounced the Berlin Stories in a 1956 essay: “He regretted depicting many persons as "monsters" and noted they were "ordinary human beings prosaically engaged in getting their living through illegal methods. The only genuine monster was the young foreigner who passed gaily through these scenes of desolation, misinterpreting them to suit his childish fantasy."” -- that being said, the people in those books are still very, very interesting and -- despite Isherwood’s initial limitations/biases -- beautiful in their realities)

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OTHER MOVIES

Anders als die Andern and Laws of Love -- two movies produced via the institute exploring same-sex relationship rights. I haven’t seen the latter yet (it was only restored in 2021, nearly a hundred years after it was released), but it was heavily censored. The former (with the famous German actor Conrad Veidt as a lead) is considered the first movie to overtly show homosexuality. They’re both on the Internet Archive

The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld: by cult film-maker Rosa von Praunheim that explores the opening of the institute up until the 30s. I haven’t seen it yet, but very excited! EDIT: currently watching and it’s definitely On A Budget, but a good rundown of Hirschfeld’s life. On youtube with english subs. EDIT 2: having finished it, am interested in how it portrayed Dora Richter (that it had her in it at all was great) -- not completely accurate, but a labour of love

Paragraph 175: a 2000 movie documenting some of the gay men who experienced the violence of the law under Nazi regime and afterwards. This film is simply made, and there aren’t many men featured in it -- it feels like it’s trying to get the story told before they lost their chance completely. The stories are very brutal. It starts pre-war. One of the men talking is the French author Pierre Seel, who lived until 2005 and received recognition as a holocaust survivor in 2003, in part due to this film and his own memoir

Great Freedom: this actually takes place post-war, but another insight into what Paragraph 175 was. the main character was in a concentration camp, but it’s not depicted. I simply think it’s good, although it’s mildly off-topic.

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MISC

this has focused a lot on the Institute of Sexology, but I’d like to read some works on Helene Stöcker and the World League for Sexual Reform

#resources #queer stuff #queer resources #weimar berlin #magnus hirschfeld #li shiu tong #laurie marhoefer #heike bauer #paragraph 175 #die institut für sexualwissenschaft #weimar germany #cabaret #christopher isherwood #queer history #queer germany #germany #queer literature #queer non-fiction #queer cinema

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alienejj · 2 months

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Thrifted Bookish Finds Masterlist

I took these pictures myself. Some of these books are old, some were just poorly handled over the years, and all were thrifted across the second-hand stores of Dublin.

Catalogue of all my posts detailing my bookish thrift finds on the day I buy them:

Thrifted Bookish Finds 12/jan/24

Thrifted Bookish Finds 13/jan/24

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