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tsh meme spam from Pinterest

(feel this one works for richard too.)

(do it for the plot, richard.)

view from a california beach town

my theory for what henry whispered to camilla is "kitten, i'll be honest. daddy's about to kill himself"

He makes me crash out, respectfully,,

the three genders:

nerd

official elon musk hate post reblog to hate like to hate reply to hate

richard: …so, what i was saying- i was really upset about john lennon’s death

henry: oh, i’m sorry. was john lennon your uncle?

richard:

the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole

he is like a babygirl and punching bag to me

The aesthetics of my insomnia:

crying over TikToks because you love women (/pos)

googling fake Shakespeare quotes (it turned out to be a quote from Tumblr)

writing down an idea for a drawing that you dreamed of in your half-sleep

learn by heart a poem by Lermontov or Pushkin

changing three pillows (one of the pillows is a sweater with a scarf), eventually just falling asleep on a mattress

doing 20 push-ups at five in the morning, because it's better than scratching your skin and quieter than hitting a pillow

looking up the translation of a word (from the language you're learning) that came to mind and you're not 100% sure what it means

i feel like Bunny Corcoran and Peter Pettigrew just have same vibes idk i cant explain it

Happy New Year of the Peacock!! 🎉

(As you know, if you seize enough territories in China, any year can become the year of the peacock)

Lord Shen from Kung Fu Panda 2

By @levinky_art on X

My existence is a scandal ✎

how did Richard casually mention doing cocaine in a burger king parking lot and then ONE LINE LATER call Judy a 'senseless cokehead'

my dude drop the superiority complex

no i dont think richard was "not smart enough" for the greek class. but lets not pretend his monetary status is what kept him from fitting in. Bunny was not rich, despite his illusion of wealth/big rich guy persona and his 'friends' knew this. Even the twins weren't well off, lol. Only Francis and Henry were wealthy.

The reason richard never became a core part of the group (unless absolutely necessary) was simply this: he was boring. he was a voyeur whose sole purpose was bearing witness to something greater than himself (nnnot really. all these guys were kind of pathetic and swept up in the tides of their delusions.)

that is part of the tragedy of richard and his entire story: he wanted, so badly, to be a part of this group, this other-worldly phenomenon that could never really accept him. he got swallowed whole and spit right back out by the very people he had built up to be these divine beings of perfection. He becomes doomed to forever feel the grief of a rejection so in-his-face and the only closure he gets is some fantasy he forces in a foggy dream.

no i dont think richard was "not smart enough" for the greek class. but lets not pretend his monetary status is what kept him from fitting in. Bunny was not rich, despite his illusion of wealth/big rich guy persona and his 'friends' knew this. Even the twins weren't well off, lol. Only Francis and Henry were wealthy.

The reason richard never became a core part of the group (unless absolutely necessary) was simply this: he was boring. he was a voyeur whose sole purpose was bearing witness to something greater than himself (nnnot really. all these guys were kind of pathetic and swept up in the tides of their delusions.)

that is part of the tragedy of richard and his entire story: he wanted, so badly, to be a part of this group, this other-worldly phenomenon that could never really accept him. he got swallowed whole and spit right back out by the very people he had built up to be these divine beings of perfection. He becomes doomed to forever feel the grief of a rejection so in-his-face and the only closure he gets is some fantasy he forces in a foggy dream.

i think me and every other georgian online has the right to be majorly pissed about americans who mistake the Country for the state ESPECIALLY recently with the ongoing protests and fights. do not complain about how it makes sense that they are mistaken because of the name because that is no longer an excuse, i am very tired, don't be ignorant

The failure of Greek myth retellings

This is a personal rant about how I, as a Greek and mythology lover, view these modern retellings and how they came out more as a disappointment.

Here are some examples of forced labelling from the book sites like Bookreads:

Do you see a pattern? Is not only they are telling the audience rather than showing how "feminist" are these retellings but also..

Man vs woman

According to the retellings all ancient Greek men are bad, sexist, misogynists, worthless, abusers and women are girlboss ✨. But it's obvious that humans regardless of gender are complex beings.

But when you read the Original epics you realise that women have as much importance in the story as men. But not in the way you are used to...

The women aren't afraid to speak their mind, they have agency, they are a driving force the admire, but it's not with shields, armor or physical strength. They are also showing it with kindness, empathy, cunning but also with anger, sorrow, vengeance.

Penelope, Electra, Antigone, Ariadne, Andromache, Helen, Cassandra etc. ARE strong women! They don't have to go to battle to prove it!

BUT that also doesn't mean we should glorify the women who are abusers and do wrong things!

Clytemnestra for example, exiled Orestes, had her daughter Electra a slave, showed proudly her Trojan women (also slaves) and killed Cassandra an innocent woman.. Do i understand how and why she acted? Yes 💯. Does this justifies her actions ? Of course no.

Medea, killed her brother and her children, and also poisoned Jason's next wife and her father because "she wanted to make him suffer like her". Do i understand why she did it? Yes. Does it justify to have everyone suffer because of one man? No.

Hera, punished several women and men alike because she couldn't do it on Zeus (because he is the king and stronger). Is cheating bad? Yes. Does it justify her to punish someone who was obviously a victim or was powerless against a god? No.

The retellings:

fail to do complex characters.

fail to let the audience come to their own conclusions who's right, wrong or neutral.

They fail to make daring characters without be labelled on a modern stereotype.

Fail to understand the norms of ancient Greece and how they shaped these stories.

Fail to realise that men and women are more complex than modern stereotypes.

I am not against retellings but do better! Making a great retelling respectful to the source and having complex characters with quality reading would be deeply appreciated.

And to the readers to not rely on retellings as "faithful resources".

judy poovey's party fight story and camilla's country house accident were windows to what really went on between charles, henry, and camilla.

i love these hints and foreshadowing because camilla was almost always made pure by richard's narration, but who again was in the center of both occurrences? that's right. our girl milly.

Wolfstar hits harder if Remus isn't conventionally attractive.

Because while Sirius is still deep in denial and internalized homophobia, he's convincing himself like "it's okay, i'm not gay, anyone would want to kiss Remus once in a while, he's just objectively hot"

Except Remus is awkward and quiet when not around friends, he's too tall like he grew up too fast and doesn't know what to do with this extra height, his scars scare people away, he wears grandpa sweaters, drinks tea in his free time and goes to sleep at 9 pm, he can't flirt for the life of him (even though he could bc he's witty and sarcastic) because he has no self-confidence and it shows.

He's basically a loser (affectionate) and Sirius is like "it's okay, no need to panic, he's the sexiest man on earth but that's just an astute observation, no gay thoughts here"

and i just think that's funny as hell

Fellow "The gray house" enjoyer yay 👊😊

yeah! I even have fanarts for this book!

Red

Vulture

Corpse

And my fav one!!

" <...> Skull himself sat on a simple bench. Not in a hundred years would you suspect that he ruled this place, except everyone knew that he did.

When Grasshopper looked at him, Skull seemed to radiate an invisible halo. It was not apparent to the eye, but it separated him from the background, made him brighter. Like they do with light in old movies. And the fact that he was just sitting there, lost in the sea of mere mortals, only strengthened the effect."

oh thanks for tagging me :3. i'm new to tumblr so i'm glad someone is already including me in this activity

these are my six favorite books:

The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan

Heaven official's blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Hobbit, or There and Back by J. R. R. Tolkien

Woe from Wit by Alexander Griboyedov

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

I often find it difficult to choose my favorite books because all my favorite writers are short fiction writers 😭. like Bunin, Paustovsky, Akutagawa, Andersen

btw next year i will take exams to enter university. and for the literature exam i will have to read a lot of russian works. (also i want to read more japanese literature). so i think next year i will have a different top of books :)

👉👈 @asableedingheart @egujournal @autumnalethereal

Favourite Book Tag Game

Dear mutuals and followers, let's play a game. It is simple and straightforward: name your six favourite books (with or without explanation), then tag five more people and let them do the same.

Here are my six favourite books (not in any particular order, they all share a space on the podium):

1. Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky

2. Northanger Abby by Jane Austen

3. The neverending story by Michael Ende

4. Krabat by Otfried Preußler

5. Fire and Hemlock by Dianna Wynne Jones

6. The Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

I'm tagging @thelostinthebooks , @catcoffeeenjoyer , @stoertebeker , @plutorine @deimosatellite

Have fun 😊

tragedy enjoyers when even good intentions lead to ruin

too many movies have been ruined by not casting ugly people

interesting things happening on my twitter account

i was thinking about lesbian winterpapen and then i imagined henry winter as a really tall buff lady and i ripped my shirt off and started howling at the moon