#sayers on writing

[dollkisses05]

need someone obsessed with me in a very poetic and unfortunate way

#lena writes #girlblogging #hell is a teenage girl #gatekeep gaslight girlboss #this is what makes us girls #just girly things #coquette #whisper girl #coquette aesthetic #coqeutte #femcel #alana champion #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #im just a girl #locally hated #girly tumblr #lizzy grant #cinnamon girl #coquette dollete #female manipulator #nina sayers #girlblog #lisa rowe #female hysteria #female insanity #lana del ray #obviously doctor you've never been a 13 year old girl #obsessive love #love #lana del rey aka lizzy grant

[mothprincess]

serena crane, to all the swan queens

#my writing #serena crane #to all the swan queens #poetry #the orangery literary society #poets on tumblr #i'm glad i rewrote this #i like it a lot more now #black swan #nina sayers #this was originally called 'nina sayers'

[thelibraryiscool]

good writing's really worth about a hundred other things

#i'm reading a non lpw dorothy sayers novel and the thing is #i am reminded yet again how much good writing matters to me #when a book is a joy to read all the other things tend to fall into place #(not always. but it is much harder for me to excuse poor writing than to excuse poor plot for example) #allie talks

[suzannahnatters]

You've heard of Dorothy Sayers' poem Desdichado but have you read the Hades and Persephone-themed poem from that same collection because this thing goes way harder than anything should:

REX DOLORIS

* Signed with the sign of His Cross and salted with His salt. S. AUGUSTINE.

"WHEREFORE wilt thou linger, Lady Persephone? The sheaves are gathered, the vintage is done, Bacchus through the ivy leaves laughing with his satyrs Calls us to the feasting, and the ripe, red sun Drops like an apple, tumbling to the westward, The shout of the Maenads is merry on the hill, Why do the wheat-ears fall from thy fingers? Whom does thou look for, lingering still?

"Whom dost thou look for? Here is one to woo thee, Brown-cheeked, beautiful, lissom as the larch, Lightsome, slender, blossomy with kisses, Merrier-footed than the winds in March; Loose thy hair to dream along his shoulder, Drowse in thy whiteness warm upon his breast, He shall feed thee with wheaten cakes and honey And all fair fruits that are rich and daintiest."

"I weary of the feast, I weary of the harvesting, I weary of your music, children of the earth-- Your feet dance over the roofs of my palaces, The halls of Hades ring hollow to your mirth; The great King of Grief hath reft me, ravished me, Broken me with kisses, conquered me with pain, I have drunk his bitter wine, I have eaten of His pomegranates, Can find no savour in the honeycomb again."

"Wherefore wilt thou linger, Lady Persephone? When sheaves are gathered and the vintage is done, And Bacchus through the ivy leaves laughing with his satyrs Calls us to the feasting, and the ripe, red sun Drops like an apple, tumbling to the westward, While the shout of the Maenads echoes from the hill?" "Ere the round moon rise ruddy on the corn-shocks The Lord of Hades shall have me at His will."

#poetry #Dorothy Sayers #poems and quotes #Poem #hades and persephone #hades x persephone #fun fact: it was this poem that helped me figure out the retelling I'd wanted to write FOREVER

[afieldinengland]

mutuals it is kind of crazy to sit and think that if we were in the same room in real life we would all be talking in our different accents

#peace and love on planet earth #no idea if my accent comes across in my posts if such a thing can. i write more formally than i sound aloud #i’m a chewsday sayer. i’m from the countryside

[blackswaneuroparedux]

A man once asked me … how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.

Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

#sayers #dorothy l. sayers #quote #literature #writer #author #feminism #art of writing #misogyny #english #culture

[vinca-majors]

adore | lady mary wimsey x charles parker

The first thing she notices is that he radiates calm, as though he is the eye of the storm and no matter how winds rage and debris flies, the chaos cannot touch him. The second thing she notices, though it will be some time before she realizes she knows it, is that his eyes are brown. If Mary cared anything for kindness she might have taken a closer look at him, but she has no time for the romance of kindness, and her starving, brittle, betrayed heart rejects it outright. Kindness never killed a dragon. She is fighting for their lives. Lady Mary Wimsey falls in love with her life, her family, and Detective-Inspector Charles Parker.

#lord peter wimsey #dorothy l. sayers #mary wimsey #charles parker #wimseys #fic: mine #edit: mine #writing: mine #fanfic #the truest angst is in imaginative character x unimaginative character #one wishing and hoping and praying #the other sternly telling himself 'not in your wildest dreams!!' exactly 1x & never reassessing the situation bc not in his wildest dreams #and that is what dorothy sayers gave to me with this ship

[sayer-raider-art]

New update of Colossal Protector, Sophia!

Writing: Lord Wolx

Art: Myself

New update of Colossal Protector, Sophia!

Writing: Lord Wolx

Art: Myself

#g/t #g/t art #g/t related #colossal protector Sophia #digital #sayer's art #fanfic #story #writing

[harumscarumcos]

I’m just happy to know no Disney/Disney adjacent films won for the sole fact they are Disney/Disney adjacent

Congrats to The Boy and the Heron on the Oscar win, still proud of each movie that ended up nominated in the section

#like I would’ve cried big tears for ATSV or Nimona to have won #but still proud of them being nominated yknow? #oscars #oscars 2024 #also no shade to elemental I do think it’s a nice film #I just know when it comes to the academy’s history #if not for the years of prior backlash they definitely would’ve chosen it because of that leg up of being a disney/pixar feature #and I still think a lot of the movies in the category this year just had more weight to their stories than elemental did tbh #I really liked the themes of the boy and the heron on creating a better world with your own hands #a vision of optimism that’s so desperately needed while still acknowledging like the unfortunate/bleak status of the world #I was really hopeful for nimona cause of the message served there too #of how history/empires can so greatly twist a narrative #of spurning the world around because of treatment received so long ago and finding acceptance in the unlikeliest place #of coming up from the mud to become something greate spiting all those who spoke down on you #and I don’t think yall need to hear me gas up atsv again for the narrative #but you know imma stand on the fact of not walking in the path others think you’re supposed to and writing your own story #in spite of all your nay sayers #I think honestly there were a lot of great picks this year

[beatcroc]

Guy who cannot care at all for horror media but then listens to tma and loves the absolute hell out of it and forgets they don't care about horror media and listens to another horror media and wonders why it sucks so much and then just thinks about how cool tma was again and then realizes they actually didn't care abt tma as a horror media either and had just liked it for the incredibly involved meta way in which they used the horror

#ive had an eventful morning. #on goddddd brooo tma had the coolest narrative setup/structure/framing everrrrrrr that shit ruled so fucking harddddddd #i miss her so bad bro even if the finale was trash. but thats not on the narrative thats one specific and unfortunate case of bad writing #the other thing I'm talking about here is SAYER #i dont actually think it sucks but boy it sure is reminding me that horror to me is at best usually just frustrating or aggravating #bweeeaaahh

[dollkisses05]

Yk it's bad when you’re describing your type and it starts to sound more like a father figure 

#coquette #coquette aesthetic #girlblogging #hell is a teenage girl #this is what makes us girls #whisper girl #coqeutte #femcel #gatekeep gaslight girlboss #just girly things #older man younger woman #older men <3 #dilfism #daddy issues #im going insane #lisa rowe #nina sayers #daisy randone #girly tumblr #im just a girl #obviously doctor you've never been a 13 year old girl #oldermen #older men do it better #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #girl interupted syndrome #lana del rey aka lizzy grant #female insanity #female hysteria #lizzy grant #lena writes

[j-august]

She had her image - the world sleeping like a great top on its everlasting spindle - and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the meanwhile she had got her mood on to paper - and this is the release that all writers, even the feeblest, seek for as men seek for love; and, having found it, they doze off happily into dreams and trouble their heads no further.

Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

#quote #quotation #Dorothy L Sayers #Gaudy Night #image #verse #mood #writers #writing #release #love

[collgeruledzebra]

sayer leaving hale on earth like a kid in an animated movie having to release the fantastical creature they found in the woods and bonded with back into the wild because they couldn't take care of it anymore

#sayer #*sayer puts hale down on the ground* *hale steps forward then looks back at sayer questioningly* sayer: go on. just GO! LEAVE!! #YOU WERE A NUISANCE ANYWAY! just go back... #*hale despondently shuffles away* #sayer goes back home and speaker mentions gosh you seem down did something happen sayer snaps NO and stomps off #why did i write all that. #whatever. #original

[evenaturtleduck]

It annoys me so much when, as a reader, I'm expected to believe that character A is attracted to character B on the strength of character A thinking, "wow, character B has very generically sexy muscles" or nice boobs, whatever. It's boring. Give me something like this--the kind of obsessively tender attention to detail you develop when you've really fallen hard for someone.

Very few of these details are inherently sexy, but when the whole person has become important to you, all those tiny things become of utmost significance. That's what convinces me that she's in love with him--the last phrase, "The little hollow above the points of the collarbone," stabbed me right in the heart--I'm half in love with him myself by now.

#writing stuff #favorite books #gaudy night #dorothy l sayers #harriet vane #lord peter wimsey #currently reading

[an-honest-puck]

I have watched Pray Don't Be Fickle far too many times than is normal (thanks @personinthepalace for sharing the whole scene lol) and I simply cannot get over how incredible Jonathan's voice is- like, the tone of his voice?? so crisp and clear it's amazing

(also, I love rewatching it and watching everyone reacting to him lol)

the fact that it's Harry who first summons him and names him Reverend Jon

Nancy suggesting a silly summoning spell to give Jonathan time to get on stage

the musicians in the background looking at Jon, waiting for him to cue them

Nancy double checking that he's coming and Harry trying not to break as he watches Jon walk on

ok no but hold on, the pure delight on Nancy's face when she realises that Jon's actually going to get on there and sing is so wonderful and lowkey kinda heartwarming?? idk, she's just so hyped for this moment y'all, it's hard not to get swept up in the excitement ya dig?? lol

not Jon Oscar starting his cameo with a pun XDD

"I sense someone has become something jarred!" - Oscar

Charlie: Our headmistress has been turned into a pickle! We need you to reverse that. Oscar: Of course. Well, my children, there's only one way to do that of course. Charlie: Of course- Oscar, breaking half way through this sentence: Which I fear is through song.

Nancy absolutely setting Jon up for a big dramatic song and of course the kicker: "Why don't you take... centre stage?"

listen, I know Nancy literally gestured for him to be centre stage, but that still doesn't explain why he starts this song kneeling pfffff- fr who knows, but it's a bloody power move if I ever did see one

speaking of brilliant moves, shoutout to Charlie for inviting everyone in the cast on the stage to be a part of this iconic moment 😌

Oscar: Uhh. My children, I must say, I'm disappointed that tonight is the only show my parents are watching.

Almost everyone else in the cast: *breaking*

Oscar: But here we go.

the band and Jonathan being perfectly timed on that opening chord and note??? wtf is this improv magic????? /amazed

I'm sorry but even from that very first line "When you've been turned" his tone is so crisp and so strong my god

also, I can't tell if rhyming 'jarred' with an alternate pronunciation of 'prepared' (i.e. 'preparred') is lazy or lazy enough to be genius XD

I adore Lauren and Nancy's all the little interjections in the first few lines and Jon including them in the song XD

Jon: When you've been turned into something jarred Lauren: Sing it, Reverend! Jon: You must be prepared, be preparred Nancy: It's just you! Jon: It's just me it's a solo, that's unfortunate Nancy (literally just as Jonathan has goe up to the two Henrys and Shields looks like he's about to help him lol): Don't try and pass it, Jon! Jon: But do not worry, things are gonna turn out great!

the knowing laugh of the audience when Jonathan sings "Pray, don't be fickle..." (because how else are you gonna rhyme 'pickle' ya dig?? XD)

but fr tho, Jono vocally popped off on the chorus!!!!!!!

also can we spare a moment to appreciate the way he physically embraces this song?? he's not dancing, but he absolutely nails the 'possessed by the music' acting direction of the scene and I friggin love it!!!!!

(the man is surprisingly light on his feet I would love to see him tap - Charlie says he was a great tap dancer back in their LAMDA days lol)

gotta love the musicians changing the rhythm of the song on him - to be fair, they are keeping in the gospel style of shifting the rhythm lol

and in true improv style, Jono incorporating that into the song XD

"A different kind of rhythm has started / And I know that we're all gonna see the change!" - Oscar

(yo how did he hit that note on 'change'?!!?!?)

and then of course he pops off lyrically and vocally

yo I legit have to record it here because this bit of lyrical improv is Showstopper level!!!!

A different kind of rhythm has started And I know that we're all gonna see the change! Magic's here and the lord is upon us So don't be fearful, now don't be enraged!

his vocal interjections in the second chorus!!!!! the way he becomes a choir director and gets everyone to do the chorus again because no one actually knew how the chorus went, least of all him!!! XD

and then he gets back on his knees and it's all over for us bitches /affectionate because it's me, I'm bitches XD

the way he signals for the music to stop is so fckn cool omg

THE RUN HE HITS ON 'PRAY' ADFSAKHDJFKSLAHLDJSK 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

(Nancy in the background looking so proud!!!!!!!!!!!!)

THE TIMING OF THE BAND TO COME BACK IN WITH THE MUSIC ASDFHADSFJLKAFHLJK 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

again with the badass stop-the-music signal?!?!?! we get it you're a fkcn bombass vocalist AND you're musically trained goddang- /jk

and to top it all off: a pitch perfect exit featuring a Shields flourish to end

in conclusion: Mischief, give the people what they want and let Jonathan Sayer sing more in your future productions!!!!!!!

#jonathan sayer #mischief movie night in #pray don't be fickle #the day harry got cut in half #mischief theatre #i rewatched it to finish writing this post and i still get giddy/hyped listening to him hit that final run DAMN #i think the hype got to me and the last half of this post is a mess of me just screaming in capslock at how good this song is lmao #but listen i could legit yell about this song for ages lol #(sidenote: it's funny because if the fans appeal to mischief comedy they're kinda appealing to jono because he's the company director lol) #(it's what the people want jonathan!!!!!!!) #day says hey

[thesarahshay]

My favorite part of Gaudy Night is the bit where Harriet is totally having a normal one and rewriting a letter to Peter five times, not because she has feelings for him or anything, haha why would you say that.

#Dorothy Sayers #Dorothy L. Sayers #Lord Peter Wimsey #she totally would have had an equally difficult time writing a letter about dentists or gardening #Gaudy Night