OK so apparently this took off on Tumblr overnight and has accidentally served as free marketing for my mutual's book so HEY. HEY. IF YOU WANT SOME GOOD ASS READING.
"Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die" by @greerstothers.bsky.social
Gogogo get the book you know you wanna go readdddd it.
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend
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Sir Gawain Fucks the Green Knight Here’s a tale ripe for telling. Can’t say where I heard it first—in pretty French or Dutch. Perhaps as a young lady walking ‘longside the Rijn. I’ll spin it for you in an English tongue, fine as frost on lace, sweet as malmsey wine. So it goes that young Gawain, strength kissed into his limbs, fresh as the bright dawn, comes trembling down to the Green Chapel. You’ve heard this tale, I know. His breath makes peach fuzz in the air, fear into him like worm to apple. Christmas Morn is too soon, time is short. You have your own life to save, he says, picking through thorn and bough to an ivy-clad cave. The creature is the Jack O’ the Glen / forest prince / the wood’s own laughter. Beard of lichen and eyes like dark elder. I need not repeat their exchange—my boy’s flinching heart—a songbird in a rattled cage. It is after the blows are dealt, he asks, what god is worshipped in these green trees? Boy, the Knight replies, boy, were you not just down on your knees? The Knight is the tang of sap / bark rough and petal soft / everywhere leaves scatter / easily crushed / Gawain clings / hardly knows what he clings to / he is the forest and the flower / a turmoil of roots / where god and tree meet and melt / the birch the oak the fern the deer / mushroom maggot crow / here Gawain is branch and bud / blow returned for blow
This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so:
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Mildly amusing but when I tried to open Bluesky in the Vatican, it wanted me to verify my age but outside in Rome it’s fine (thankfully. Because I’m not doing that ngl)
I’ve got a writing project that I’ve worked on a little in each airport I’ve been in and I plan to include the airports in the dedication. I might just have to exclude Heathrow from this dedication tho
I’m very good at getting lost in airports, it’s true. But Heathrow is a special level of fucked up and evil. I just got so damn lost, it’s unreal
It is both true that Israel‘s behavior has created fertile ground for antisemitism to grow and also no antisemitism is justified ever so if you’re not Jewish and starting to have some thoughts about “the Jews“ that’s on you. You’re responsible for not being an antisemitic twit.
Dark painting in classical style, depicting a woman in a white dress with her back facing the viewer, wrapped in red fabric. The face of a man peaking through the darkness, near the woman's bleeding neck.
Book mockup of the first illustration.
The Dracula cover I worked on is finally revealed.
I am very stoked about this project, because doing a cover art for a classical book is a dream I didn't know I had, and also because they agreed to have the cover art minimalistic and elegant, and I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT IT.
Me writing an essay: queering the middle ages is not about uncovering sexual identities, but about examining the ways in which things don't conform to heteronormative study and thereby unsettle the established orthodoxy through which we view the middle ages
Also me: hahaha he's so gay
New pronoun labeller just dropped! Instructions are in the thread and as this is something that becomes more useful the more people are using it, plz do pass it along
ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race
so much clothing is marketed as "conversation starters" but as an introvert, i want "conversation enders." no more talking. let me go home.
please know when I use the ✨ emoji, I do not mean anything to do with AI. they stole my emoji from me.
a red and pink cross stitch on blue fabric. "everything I love causes carpal tunnel" surrounded by hearts, a needle and thread, and a skein of embroidery floss.
relevant to many of yalls interests.
I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I haven't got a fucking clue where to find it and I'm not going to bother looking
My review of @finnlongman.com's The Wolf and His King is now available on the Locus website: locusmag.com/review/the-w...
I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
I don’t understand people who are annoyed about babies crying in public. I hear one cry and I’m all “me too, kid.” They didn’t ask to be there and have every right to express their feelings on the matter in the way they communicate to their parents
Everyone remember: if a strange hot green dude bursts into your Christmas dinner, you DON'T have to behead him
Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one
That’s likely the mix up, yes. Dickens was paid in installments and not by the word.
I know from reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (a contemporary of Dickens) that you had to make the sections of book relatively the same length because it has to fit in the allotted space in the magazine
The evidence of this is anecdotal at best and a little dubious, sadly. Mentions of this on the internet never name the novel or give detail like a year, which definitely makes me suspicious as to its veracity
Again, I like the ideas of the quoted post and the other post in the thread. My purpose in being a pedant in a quote post is not to be a dick to op or their ideas, but to share a little bit about my favorite brick of a novel. Maybe one day I’ll talk about how zany Hugo was 8/8
[to digress in Hugo fashion, Bellos says that “it’s not a scientific survey, but I think it’s significant that a higher proportion of baristas and office staff than literature professors I’ve met have read Les Misérables from end to end” (xvi) and I wasn’t expecting to be so called out lmao] 7/8
As Bellos puts it, “Far from being digressions, the essay chapters constitute the basic rhythm of the text. They are what makes Les Misérables what it is: food for the heart, and food for the mind” (154). I believe that the digressions and themes are part of what makes Les Mis relevant today 6/8
but they’re so important thematically. The Waterloo section tells you how the section with the rebellion of 1832 will go long before we reach the thematic and narrative climax of the work. Hugo didn’t just set out to tell a story, he wrote a social commentary and played with the form of novels 5/8
It’s a rather popular myth that Hugo was paid by the word (and the digressions don’t help that image) but that’s not how his work was published. Hugo wrote like that because that’s who he was. He had a lot to say. People make fun of the digressions for being irrelevant to the story, 4/8
Volume I was published April 4, volumes II and III were published in mid-May, and volumes IV and V were published June 30 (Bellos 238). 3/8
Consulting David Bellos’s book The Novel of the Century, I discovered that Hugo sold Les Mis to “MM A Lacroix, Verborkhoven & Cie of Brussels… for 240,000 francs cash” (142).
This was for the entire work. The novel itself was published in parts over the span of three months in 1862 2/8
