a source of little visible delight

Might blather on // reading tracker

[omenalehto]

june 2026

[rosieandthemoon]

“Summer Night” by Kitty Kielland, 1886 {info}

[khoesib]

Not being able to understand all the languages of the world fucks me up. There's so much art by people and while translations are available (sometimes), the contours of the original text will forever be alien to me. Sad.

[arlassahareton]

[arlassahareton]

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“What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of any thing. We will know where we have gone—we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations….”

-- Jane Austen, pride and prejudice

[arlassahareton]

Truly truly truly think of wuthering heights every. single. time I'm outside. Standing in a field and seeing the wind shake the grass and I yearn for the kind of passion emily brontë so clearly has felt years and years before me. I once read someone say that she doesn't seem to know love, telling from her biography, but she definitely knows the violent want and what makes someone feel so deeply alive.

The book is pure honesty to me. Honesty about how good it feels to be wild and how close you feel to others when you let yourself be deranged. Chewing on a metal pipe rn

[van-bugtopia]

lisa frankenstein (2024) dir. zelda williams

[cowboyspones]

women were not banging out spirk fanfiction in the 60s for you to be AI generating your fic

[femalegifsource]

MICHELLE PFEIFFER as TITANIA A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

[arlassahareton]

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frankenstein - on suffering and nature ˖°⋆₊ ♱ ࣪𖤐

[zeetannas]

to be honest i think there’s a large number of people who conflate the very real and widespread phenomenon that women tend to be written off as just mothers or love interests in order to diminish their importance in a given story with the fact that a huge reason they’re sent to narrative purgatory in this way is BECAUSE the labels of “mother” and “girlfriend/wife” are systematically devalued and seen as inherently inferior because they’re terms that have been associated with ownership and/or control over women. like the amount of people who’ve told me that a certain female character is uninteresting or badly written because she happened to have a kid or be a man’s girlfriend or sister just to find out she was actually fleshed out very well and carried significant narrative importance frustrates me soo bad. there’s a huge problem with how those roles (specifically “wife” and “mother”) are systematically devalued and yet also perpetuated as the only viable options for women to achieve their societal roles in the patriarchy but acknowledging the devaluation of those labels to begin with is an important discussion in itself.

[arlassahareton]

>>he took my possessions from me. My laughter, my capacity for happiness, my compassion, my ability to help, my radiance, he suffocated each and every emergence of it. But why anyone would do that I don't understand...<<

-- der Fall Franza, Ingeborg Bachmann

[arlassahareton]

°•𖥸.ೃ࿔*･° emily brontë - poems

[rosieandthemoon]

Keith's Tower in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Built c. 1824

[agoodhandwriting]

From Hamlet by William Shakespeare

From Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

And both scenes are possibly about a desire for abortion.

[agoodhandwriting]

Hamlet: “Rue”, the only one Ophelia has some for herself, was a famous abortifacient in that period. There is a theory that Ophelia is pregnant throughout the play, I don’t think this is impossible.

Wuthering Heights: Catherine is five months pregnant, has been starving herself, and is emptying her pillow of its feathers while reminiscing about dead baby birds. And the scene is clearly a reference to the Ophelia scene.

[arlassahareton]

☆⋆｡𖦹° wuthering heights-- Cathy E. on girlhood

[arlassahareton]

Wuthering heights read throughs this year so far: 2

(things are going well) (I am widening my pallete)

[arlassahareton]

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