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she/her, on ao3 as arseniclobster. my art (X-Men, DCU, ASoIaF, classic lit, esp. Austen and the Brontes) is tagged as #arsenic-lobster art.

[purr-in-ink]

🐾🐾🐾🐾🤍

[the-sun-is-often-out]

@arsenic-lobster

[raskolnikv]

“You may perhaps like the heroine, as she is almost too good for me.” - Jane Austen describing Anne Elliot to her niece (1816)

“In this final work of her genius Jane Austen ventures a little way from the shore. It would almost seem as if she were drawn onwards by her most adorable heroine—it would hardly be too much to say the most adorable heroine in English fiction—Anne Elliot.” - Margaretta Byrde, Jane Austen (Concluded) (1924)

“There is a new element in Persuasion, the quality, perhaps, that made Dr. (William) Whewell fire up and insist that it was “the most beautiful of her works”. She is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed. We feel it to be true of herself when she says of Anne: “She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning”.” - Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen (1925)

“In Anne, Jane Austen did succeed. Her passion (for it is not less), her insight, her maturity, her prolonged fortitude, all attract us (…) (and) Anne gains immensely by having for her lover (…) the best (of Austen’s men).” - CS Lewis, A Note on Jane Austen (1954)

happy birthday to Anne Wentworth, née Elliot!

[kabaks]

sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard

[doomedvoyages]

[phantom-tail]

If this little book should see the light after its 100 years of entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the political equality and social and moral elevation of women.

“The Great Geysers of California” by Laura De Force Gordon, 1879, unearthed from a 100-year-old time capsule in San Francisco, 1979.

[levourdalak]

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.”

Gordon Bowsher to Gilbert Bradley, 1940s

[francescacoppa]

“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader

[arsenic-lobster]

I'm sure someone must have had this idea before, but I think it'd be cool to make a playlist called "we are ugly but we have the music," and it would include leonard cohen "chelsea hotel #2," the magnetic fields "luckiest guy on the lower east side," billy bragg & wilco "way over yonder in the minor key," rose betts "hot girl summer," and I guess whatever other songs exist that fit this theme (ideas?)

[kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate]

IN PARIS WITH YOU by James Fenton

Don’t talk to me of love. I’ve had an earful And I get tearful when I’ve downed a drink or two. I’m one of your talking wounded. I’m a hostage. I’m maroonded. But I’m in Paris with you.

Yes I’m angry at the way I’ve been bamboozled And resentful at the mess I’ve been through. I admit I’m on the rebound And I don’t care where are we bound. I’m in Paris with you.

Do you mind if we do not go to the Louvre If we say sod off to sodding Notre Dame, If we skip the Champs Elysées And remain here in this sleazy

Old hotel room Doing this and that To what and whom Learning who you are, Learning what I am.

Don’t talk to me of love. Let’s talk of Paris, The little bit of Paris in our view. There’s that crack across the ceiling And the hotel walls are peeling And I’m in Paris with you.

Don’t talk to me of love. Let’s talk of Paris. I’m in Paris with the slightest thing you do. I’m in Paris with your eyes, your mouth, I’m in Paris with… all points south. Am I embarrassing you? I’m in Paris with you.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Andrew Wyeth aka Andrew Newell Wyeth (American, 1917-2009, b. Chadds Ford, PA, USA, d. Ibid) - Crescent Moon, 1982, Painting

[arsenic-lobster]

seriously, though, someone please please tell me a writing prompt or an art prompt that worked for you recently. I am feeling so dissociated from the creative part of myself right now

[roycohn]

inspired by a rant i was going on elsewhere bc someone tweeted something very stupid and uninformed about hamlet and it got my back up as someone who took two single-text-focus english literature courses in college and they were on wuthering heights and hamlet, i now put it to all of you on here:

what's "your" shakespeare play?

hamlet

macbeth

the tempest

merchant of venice

midsummer night's dream

twelfth night

richard iii

othello

julius caesar

king lear

another not listed (specify in tags) (i really just put my own top 10 here nbd)

i have no particular feelings about any shakespeare play/results tag

Voting ended onAug 11

[emberlinefics]

Favourite: Much Ado About Nothing

One I know best: Richard II

[thecreativegarden]

Younger Cathy teaching Hereton to read (I just love these two💕)

[cardboard-houses-swaying]

finished book cover :)

[random-brushstrokes]

Alexander Labas - Metro (1935)

[arsenic-lobster]

[snowbairdd]

- You dreamt of me? - No. I thought of you.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

[undefiantmuse]

The Makioka Sisters, 1983

[arsenic-lobster]

Ten People You'd Like To Get To Know Better

Thanks for the tag, dear @emberlinefics! 

★ Last song: is it embarrassing that it was Enrique Iglesias "Escape" because I was reminiscing about younger days? haha, I had this whole circa-2000 playlist going

★ Currently watching: My favorite TV-watching buddy and I are wrapping up season 1 of Superman: The Animated Series ("Why doesn't Mr. Lex Luthor leave Mr. Superman alone?" she asked at one point -- I have my own theories about this but probably won't share them until she is older). Also, I recently watched seasons 1-2 of Titans and season 3 of Young Justice to feed the Dick Grayson hyperfixation.

★ Current obsession: the usual superhero/supervillain stuff, I guess?

★ Currently reading: The Key by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (Howard Hibbett translation); also slowly making my way through Bleak House

★ Currently working on: My mind is all over the place right now, so it's been hard to work on creative projects for months, sadly. My most recent project was a watercolor portrait of my friend that I made for her last week as a retirement gift.

★ Last google search: "air quality" and the name of my city, yesterday, because the sky looked and smelled so weird

No-pressure tags for @the-sun-is-often-out @vice-president-galade @ginevralinton @come-on-eileenie @losergoose

[charli-xcx]

The Birds (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock