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Me about the female chracters in my brilliant friend: there are no evil chracters, each of the women face problems and deal with them in their own way. It's not about being a good or bad person such a concept doesn't exist in the series. Either you do something for yourself or for someone else. They can't make everyone happy and I understand them

Me about the males: he is annoying and i hate him

Can Pasquale please stop mansplaining all the women around him? Can he stop being a hypocrite who fucks bourgeois women while later patronizing Lenú for having achieved things in life? Can he stop being such a well portrayed character?

As a person who was active for years in student assemblies and political groups, I have met many Pasquales throughout my life: left-wing men who talk about the revolution, equality and camaraderie, but at the end of the day just want listen to themselves. The political struggle becomes a masculine competition based on egos. The ideals of equality are clouded by their macho personalities and their desire to be above everyone, but mostly above women. When I read the books, I found Pasquale's character very unpleasant precisely because of how well done he was. Authors tend to caricature this type of person, but Ferrante is much more elegant. Ferrante portrayed him as someone like that would be in the real world, and that's the most wonderful thing. The actor who plays Pasquale is an incredible success, very talented. He is so talented that while I was watching the series I was seeing the book, feeling the same animosity towards him, meeting again with those many other Pasquales I had known. An applause.

If Tamsyn Muir didn’t want Ianthe to be sexy she shouldn’t have made her like that. That’s all I’m saying.

venka & rin <\3

i’m being FED present-day au by the ‘gram

Laying on my bed weeping over the role of the Noniad in HtN… the love and care and passion of a poet being strong enough to summon the spirit he idolizes… the fact that Harrow considers the Noniad a joke and then is the one to recite it at the end… the fact that the poem not only constrains Nonius’ spirit to verse but changes the very rules of the dream… that Nonius’ appearance is the deciding factor in the fight against the Sleeper… as a poet and a writer I am incoherent over this love letter to art and how it can save you

i can’t get it out of my head

John Gaius will act like he can't believe Cytherea wanted to kill him, my brother in christ you made her live with cancer for 10,000 years

literally present-day rin and nezha prove me wrong

current mood is cackling at this info gege dropped in the fanbook where he confirms that everyone at the kyoto schools LOVES utahime and all i can think about is how the tokyo students would probably sell gojo for a half baked corn chip and maybe some dip

Mitski, “I Will” // David Hockney - Domestic Scene, Los Angeles 1962-1963

Resenting the male gaze but also being obsessed with how you’re perceived by others

Margaret Atwood /// Susan Sontag /// Real Men - Mitski /// Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across - Mary Lambert /// Birds of Prey (2020) /// post by jitterati /// Liquid Smooth - Mitski /// Jennifer’s Body (2009) /// Bravado - Lorde /// Diagnosis - Cynthia Cruz

l o n e l y

Richard Siken // Alejandra Pizarnik // Edward Hopper // Mary Oliver // Mitski // Edward Hopper // Warsan Shire // R.H.Sin // Little Women // Charles Baudelaire

me looking at old pics of myself: why did everyone let me be this ugly 

Listen To Survivors

“Believe survivors” is not a standard for anything.  Believing accusations are true without explanation or context would come across as absurd when discussing anything but sexual assault, especially on the internet.  In the same breath, people on this site will bemoan how easily misinformation spreads and then refuse to look into their own beliefs.

Survivors need to be taken seriously.  Survivors need to be heard.  However, if an accuser can’t present a coherent story about what happened people should be skeptical.  If key details integral to the story are proven false or frequently change, doubting them makes sense.  Why is wanting more information suddenly a radical concept?  Again, imagine how this would sound regarding any other crime.

Blindly believing any accusation regardless of the source does not make you woke or progressive; it makes you gullible.

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

The Secret Reading List: Books mentioned in The Secret History

If you want to be as erudite and elite as the Classics Clique, you’d better add these books to your reading pile…

Specific prose/poetry/plays mentioned:

Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche, Epigraph Republic, Book II by Plato, Epigraph Tom Swift by Victor Appleton, 6 Paradise Lost by John Milton, 8, 91 Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth, 33 The New Testament, 36 Agamemnon by Aeschylus, 40 Oresteia by Aeschylus, 40 Inferno by Dante, 41, 115 Poetics by Aristotle, 41 The Iliad by Homer, 41, 627 The Bacchae by Euripides, 42, 204 Parmenides by Plato, 67 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, 85 Rover Boys by Edward Stratemeyer, 85 Journey from Chester to London by Thomas Pennant, 85 The Club History of London by ?, 85 The Pirates of Penzance by W.S. Gilbert, 85 Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope, 85 Marino Faliero by Lord Byron, 85 The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, 89 Sherlock Homes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 92, 622 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 94 Mémoires by Duc de Saint-Simon, 103 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 110 Othello by Shakespeare, 115 The World Book Encyclopedia, 117 Men of Thought and Deed by E. Tipton Chatsford Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up by J. M. Barrie, 180 The Divine Comedy by Dante, 184 Superman Comics, 417 The Upanishads, 441, 466 Perry Mason Novels by Erle Stanley Gardner, 442 With Rue my Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman, 466 Lycidas by John Milton, 466 The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 466 In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, 466 Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, 481 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 554 The Malcontent by John Marston, 615 The White Devil by John Webster, 615 The Broken Heart by John Ford, epilogue epigraph, 615 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, 616 The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur, 616 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, 619

Authors mentioned:

J.R.R. Tolkien, 6 Ezra Pound, 16 T.S. Eliot, 16 Alfred Douglas, 18 Robert de Montesquiou, 18 Plato, 22, 36 Homer, 23, 36, 49, 509 Dante, 33 Virgil, 33 Plotinus, 37 Marie Corelli, 85 Shakespeare, 91, 615 Alexander Pope, 103 John Donne, 117 Rupert Brooke, 120 Edgar Allen Poe, 132, 200 Hegel, 139 Raymond Chandler, 153 Gregory of Tours, 481 Thomas Aquinas, 509 P.G. Wodehouse, 538 George Orwell, 576-7 Harold Acton, 577 Salman Rushdie, 582 Agatha Christie, 587 Proust, 612 John Webster, 615 Thomas Middleton, 615 Cyril Tourneur, 615 John Ford, 615 Christopher Marlowe, 615 Walter Raleigh, 615 Thomas Nashe, 615

NB: page numbers correspond to the Popular Penguin Edition.

Some words to use when writing things:

winking

clenching

pulsing

fluttering

contracting

twitching

sucking

quivering

pulsating

throbbing

beating

thumping

thudding

pounding

humming

palpitate

vibrate

grinding

crushing

hammering

lashing

knocking

driving

thrusting

pushing

force

injecting

filling

dilate

stretching

lingering

expanding

bouncing

reaming

elongate

enlarge

unfolding

yielding

sternly

firmly

tightly 

harshly

thoroughly

consistently

precision

accuracy

carefully

demanding

strictly

restriction

meticulously

scrupulously

rigorously

rim

edge

lip

circle

band

encircling

enclosing

surrounding

piercing

curl

lock

twist

coil

spiral

whorl

dip

wet

soak

madly

wildly

noisily

rowdily

rambunctiously

decadent

degenerate

immoral

indulgent

accept

take

invite

nook

indentation

niche

depression

indent

depress

delay

tossing

writhing

flailing

squirming

rolling

wriggling

wiggling

thrashing

struggling

grappling

striving

straining

not to flex on anyone but i’ve never wanted to fuck a serial killer

i’m incoherent and bonkers but the word for the duhDUH meter in english is iamb and if you pronounced iamb as an iamb you’d pronounce it i-AMB and the fact that iambic metre is the metre of your heartbeat which also goes duhDUH means that with every beat your heart is saying I AM, I AM, I AM

who does this professor think he IS making me put this much effort into a class that isn’t even for my major. a ten page research paper on desert geography. i want to teach theatre or creative writing at a college level. i’m never going to need to know that antarctica is a desert. why is it a fucking desert.