#sarah waters

[adrasteiax]

(...) soon it'll be spring, and everything will look different then, (...)

Sarah Waters, from The Little Stranger

#quote #sarah waters #the little stranger #literature #lit #from my collection

[lottieurl]

sarah waters, fingersmith

#sarah waters #fingersmith #words #no one is allowed to judge me for the following tag #r: i kneel into a dream where i am good & loved #book tag

[derangedrhythms]

Do you like it, that there’s always someone longing for you, in the night?

Sarah Waters, from ‘The Little Stranger’

#sarah waters #the little stranger #prose #o #y

[adaptationsdaily]

Where I come from, it's illegal to be naive.

THE HANDMAIDEN (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

#the handmaiden 2016 #park chan wook #literature #fingersmith #sarah waters #ours #by joanna #filmedit #filmgifs #moviegifs #fyeahmovies #perioddramaedit #perioddramasource #userpavlova #tusercarol #tuserdana #userairam #tusertha #underbetelgeuse #wlwedit

[thoughtkick]

I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart―so hard, it hurt me.

Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

#Sarah Waters #motivation #quotes #poetry #literature #relationship quotes #writing #original #words #love #relationship #thoughts #lit #prose #spilled ink #inspiring quotes #life quotes #quoteoftheday #love quotes #poem #aesthetic

[surqrised]

I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart―so hard, it hurt me.

Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

#Sarah Waters #motivation #quotes #poetry #literature #relationship quotes #writing #original #words #love #relationship #thoughts #lit #prose #spilled ink #inspiring quotes #life quotes #quoteoftheday #love quotes #poem #aesthetic

[redbreastedbird]

hello oh my goodness you're on tumblr 😭😭😭I don't really know how to convey how HAPPY your books make me feel. I re-read mmu books one through five for christmas and I intend to re-read the rest before mua three is out!

arkjdmsb I don't even know what to say except a huge big massive THANK YOU for creating this amazing universe where anyone and everyone can be gay and solve crimes. nuala holds a special place in my heart as we're both bespectacled autisic irish people. every time she speaks irish I gain like three years of life expectancy. I love hazel to pieces as well. when I was younger, she felt like a friend to me, like I had just accidentally picked up her casebooks and solving crimes alongside her and daisy (and of course the junior pinkertons!)

I will never forget reading the last chapter of the body in the blitz and coming to the realisation that like. almost everyone in this room is queer. and this is a kids book in an era of draconian book-banning legislation, and there are just queer characters right there. just being people, really really good people, existing almost a hundred years ago. neurodivergent, poc, disabled, queer and trans characters. yes!

I am just rambling oh my god 🤦love you lots and keep up the incredible, ground-breaking, joyous work <3

This is so nice?! Thank you so so much. And yes, this is everything I wanted to do with my books.

Sarah Waters has a line about how she writes historical novels about queer women because she wants to show her readers that queer women have always existed, and I really internalised that. It matters so much to be able to show that none of this is new - that humans have always been every identity they are today, it’s just that mainstream culture never wanted to admit it. I’m trying to put the reality back into history - honestly, I’ve probably underestimated the diversity, if anything.

I know I have said this a lot, but I grew up under section 28 in the UK, in a time when you basically could not show queer characters in a children’s book (the only queer characters I remember seeing were the angels in His Dark Materials), and so it took me a long time to really trust that I was allowed to put queer characters in my own books. Making Daisy on the page queer was one of the scariest things I had ever done, and I still sort of cannot believe I did it. But it means so much to me to just be able to put on the page now that oh, George has a boyfriend now, and for it to be a basically unremarkable thing. And also to create a trans character with Anna, who transitioned before the novel and is now just living her life!

I really hope that there’s a generation of authors coming up now who have grown up with books like mine and who will do this kind of thing even more readily than I have been able to. The world is such a scary place for people who don’t fit into the norm, but there are so many of us, just out there living our lives, and books help us see that.

Long story short: be gay solve crimes. ❤️

#murder most unladylike #ministry of unladylike activity #the body in the blitz #Sarah waters #section 28

[lillyli-74]

What a punishing business it is, simply being alive.

~Sarah Waters

#sarah waters

[orkbutch]

Something I completely forgot about until now is this drawing i did after rereading Tipping The Velvet for the billionth time. Nan King is to this day my fictional butch icon, the ultimate slutty anti-hero lesbian fuck boy, comically tripping her way through her life slapstick style while being extremely fuckable and queer. I love her and all of her weird fucked lovers

#my art #this was actually part of an illustrated reading list i was doing. which i might continue chipping away at idk #reading list #sarah waters

[resqectable]

I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart―so hard, it hurt me.

Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

#Sarah Waters #motivation #quotes #poetry #literature #relationship quotes #writing #original #words #love #relationship #thoughts #lit #prose #spilled ink #inspiring quotes #life quotes #quoteoftheday #love quotes #poem #aesthetic

[adrasteiax]

Last night I heard noises. I thought there was something at the door, something scratching, wanting to get in. Then I realised that the noise was inside me, that the thing that was scratching was inside me, trying to get out.

Sarah Waters, from The Little Stranger

#quote #sarah waters #the little stranger #literature #lit #from my collection

[amatesura]

Fingersmith (2005) | dir. Aisling Walsh

#fingersmith #perioddramaedit #sally hawkins #elaine cassidy #aisling walsh #sarah waters #*

[aclaywrites]

While ‘lesbian themed’ is making me laugh, this one is a no-brainer.

Carol by Todd Haynes is the best lesbian movie ever, adapted from an excellent book. I love period dramas, happy endings, and Cate Blanchett.

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters. I was randomly at Borders books one evening, when across a crowded room I saw a purple book cover with two bare bottoms on it. Not being a fool, I went right over and investigated and could not believe my eyes. A book about Victorian lesbians who work in the London music halls? It may as well have been subtitled ‘A book for Amanda’. I took it home and read it in a day and it’s still the best ever.

And though they didn’t ask, Season one of Gentleman Jack is the best lesbian rep ever on tv. It came out at a vulnerable time in my life and I cried so hard at every episode, wondering if anyone would ever really love me. I’m not as strong as you think. Well, I am, obviously. But sometimes I’m not. ::swoon::

#lesbian queries #lesbian query of the day #lesbian #lesbian history #herstory #gay shit #dykes to watch out for #lesbian movies #lesbian books #lgbt movie #lgbt books #lgbt tv #gay history #cate blanchett #gentleman jack #anne lister #sarah waters

[grrrenadine]

Since Spooktober has rolled around again, I wanna give a shoutout to a project that @snailontheslope and I made two years agp. We watched and reviewed 13 Irish movies in various subgenres of horror, and the end result is a fully illustrated zine available for $1+ on Gumroad (link in source).

These are all the illustrations featured inside. Enjoy and happy reading!

@zine-scene

#13 irish horrors #horror #monochrome #interview with the vampire #i am not a serial killer #shrooms #grabbers #a dark song #the killing of a sacred deer #colin farrell #dan wells #the little stranger #sarah waters #zines #my art

[mostlyghostie]

If you liked Fingersmith then you should absolutely read Tipping The Velvet, also by Sarah Waters, it’s not as dark but it’s beautifully written with a charming main character and incredible romance! Genuinely one of my favorite books of all time(my pfp is from the BBC adaptation which is also great).

Thank you- definitely on my radar after having read Fingersmith. I met Sarah Waters a couple years ago when the university I work at gave her an honorary degree- she gave a really interesting speech about how far certain things had come even when it sometimes felt society was going backwards, and was was very nice when I met her after the ceremony- I just wish I'd have read something of hers before then so I'd have had something interesting to ask her!

#sarah waters #fingersmith

[quotian]

But children, he concluded, weren't made to please their parents; and no father should ever expect to have his daughter at his side for ever... 'In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you from your fate.' tipping the velvet - sarah waters

#sarah waters #tipping the velvet #love #parenthood #parents