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fairydrowning · 1 year
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I don't like studying for exams but then I remember I want an apartment near riverside with large windows and my own art studio in that.
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a-books-allure · 1 year
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12.02.23 | To the Riverside
“My dear sir, you fall into the very common mistake of charging upon Nature, matters with which she has not the smallest connection, and for which she is in no way responsible. Men talk of Nature as an abstract thing, and lose sight of what is natural while they do so.” -Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
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uwmspeccoll · 1 year
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More Folktales
With Women’s History Month coming to a close, I offer you one final book that caught my eye first by the lovely gold accented cover, followed by the stories and illustrations inside. 
The Book of Saints & Friendly Beasts was written by American author Abbie Farwell Brown (1871-1927) and illustrated by Fanny Young Cory (1877-1972). It was first published in Boston and New York by Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. in 1900, printed at the Riverside Press and designed by the incomparable Bruce Rogers. The book contains twenty-two stories that focus on a different saint and animal in each tale as well as illustrations that coincide with a handful of the tales.
The Book of Saints & Friendly Beasts was actually Brown’s first published book and was intended for a younger audience. She was inspired to write the book after her trip to Chester Cathedral in England in 1899. The animals that coincide with the tales were inspired by the moral tenets of Christianity, which I found to be quite interesting. This book and its initial publication was what led to her career as a children’s book author.
Fanny Young Cory’s desire to draw began at a young age, where she drew on anything that she could. She made her first sale in 1898 to The Century Magazine, and once her career blossomed, she did covers and interior illustrations for various other magazines. Her most enduring effort, however, and one she considered to be her finest work, was a project she started as a means of relaxation and came to be known as The Fairy Alphabet.
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-- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern
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Character, book, and author names under the cut
Alec Campion- Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
Helen Blackthorn- The Dark Artifices trilogy by Cassandra Clare
Gordo Livingstone- Green Creek Series by TJ Klune
Aline Penhallow- The Shadowhunters Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
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damonabnormal · 1 month
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Lambertville NJ
Feb 2024
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birgittesilverbae · 1 year
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Posting a WoTCCG card a day until Amazon drops literally any WoT s2 info - Day 4 (1x06 anniversary bonus card): Get Dunked On, Perrin
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Found Family Tournament Round 1 Part 29 Group 142
Propaganda and further images under the cut
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Undertale Cast: Sans, Papyrus, Toriel, Asgore, Undyne, Alphys, Mettaton, Napstablook
Books and Swords: Richard St Vier, Alec
Submissions have now closed!
Undertale Cast:
Sorry, I got no propaganda for them yet :(
Books and Swords:
They're lovers in a "it's complicated" relationship (if you haven't heard of them it's because the book was published in the 80's). Alec's a fucked up self-destructive ex-scholar who's cut ties with his family and Richard's the fucked up illiterate and brilliant swordsman humoring him when Alec's bored and wants to cause mayhem (read : finds a new way to make a sworn enemy, which happens quite often). Their relationship is very intense. They need each other. They have nobody else.
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chansondereste · 5 months
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logarithmicpanda · 1 year
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Swordspoint - The Privilege of the Sword - The Fall of the Kings (Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman)
Very queer fantasy books!
Each can be read more or less as a standalone, while there are recurring characters there's also consequent time skips between each volume (like, decades)
Very atmospheric
No magic until the last book
A lot of swordfighting and duels of all kinds
8/10
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creatediana · 8 months
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Monologue of the character Helena to Hermia, from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a fantasy romantic comedy written in the 1590s, one of the earlier plays of his career and one of only a few with no prior literary or historical source for the plot
Expressions of same-sex affection can be found throughout Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays, including The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, and Two Noble Kinsmen. However, the Renaissance did not have the modern concepts of sexual identity and sexual orientation that we have inherited from 19th- and early 20th-century theories of human sexuality and psychology. Hence nobody in this period would have conceived of themselves in terms of modern sexual categories such as heterosexual and homosexual, or gay and straight. The challenge in reading passages such as this is to understand the personal, social, and political significance of same-sex relationships in Renaissance culture without applying anachronistic labels or standards of judgment. In Renaissance England, intimate relationships between women were generally accepted as long as they did not interfere with the women’s conventional sexual and social duties: getting married, having children, maintaining chastity, and behaving in an appropriately feminine manner. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It, adolescent female friendships finally give way to the new bonds between husbands and wives that signal entry into adulthood. However, being married did not prevent adult women from maintaining or establishing affectionate intimacies with other women through relationships of friendship, patronage, or service.
—Annotation in Barnes and Noble Shakespeare’s edition of the play (the first edition I read when I was seventeen), edited by Mario DiGangi
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millie360 · 10 months
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sublecturas · 11 months
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“Confesión”, de Martín Kohan
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litandlifequotes · 10 hours
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The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past.
Riverside Blues by Erik Tomblin
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Book names + authors under the cut
Eli Rodriguez/Alex Price- Like Real People Do by E.L. Massey
Aled Last/Daniel Jun- Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Richard St Vier/Alec Campion- Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
Nick Nelson/Charlie Spring- Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
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