Mr Darcy's ghost

21. hello fellow miserables, this is where i talk about everything i like, because i REFUSE to speak about my interests IRL. welcome to my brain, its shitty. you're gonna DESPISE it :)

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Great Gatsby

so its been a couple of months since i first read the great gatsby. and boy oh boy do i have a LOT of feelings about that book!! immediately after finishing the book i watched the movie and i was INCONSOLABLE for the next few hours. i wrote a lot of thoughts and feelings about it in my journal and honestly reading it back, it seems like a great review of the book. so i'll probably post that page here just so tumblr can see how that book absolutely destroyed me. stay tuned fellas

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Read the damn thing

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maybe I will type this shit up so that your lazy ass can read it better. but can you atleast freak out about Great Gatsby with me, please?

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Here's what I wrote.

Gatsby’s dream you see, was flawed. His dream was a human. All his life’s work was done for a human. Years and years of planning and waiting and yearning, all for this one unknowning human. But that’s the fault you see, you cannot worship a human. You just cannot. You cannot take all your hopes and dreams and put them in the feet of another person. No, humans aren’t built like that. The blind faith and worship is where Gatsby failed. He worked hard and built his dream, but that very own dream failed him. He got so engrossed so obsessed with that dream, that other people, the rets of the world, took a backseat. Killing a woman, was not a matter of concern, he only cared about daisy’s feelings. But, a human cannot be relied upon like that. Daisy has her own life, her own human selfishness, her family. Its tragic how certain Gatsby was, because in his eyes he was so close to his dream. That dream was just at his fingertips, a touch away. And leaping too hard, got him death. Humans are not meant to be idolised or worshipped. They should be treated as they are. Like humans.

[cowpokeprose]

When Adam bit the apple he did it because he trusted Eve. Because he loved her. Adam bit into the apple because the woman he loved told him to, no matter what God said. No matter the rules of heaven. What’s heaven to a woman’s love anyway? What’s God to your wife? The first sins of humanity, were trusting others. Eve trusted a snake, Adam trusted Eve, and I trust you. Maybe that’s a sin, just like the first couple. Maybe everyone’s right about us and we’re sinners and we offend God. But like I said, what’s God to a woman’s love anyway? What has heaven got that I can’t find sitting next to you on a cool autumn morning?

[obliteratedfreak]

The last 50 pages of The song of Achilles are pure pain.

[sunmuffins]

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

[madhulogy]

Roses are red

The sky is gray

[miraculouslycool]

one fine day i read the words "what has hector ever done to me?" and everything went to hell after that

[hellboundhorrormovielover]

guess what i just finished reading

[silver-ink-iron-words-reblogs]

So I just finished reading The Song of Achilles, and forgive me if I'm stating the obvious but . . .

About two thirds of the way in, Thetis tells the boys that there is a new prophecy, that "the best of Myrmidons will die before two more years have passed." And at first they're afraid that it's Achilles, but then Thetis tells them that he will be alive when it happens

The first time I read this, I didn't understand. It was only when I read that passage again, after knowing what happens, that I realized the prophecy was about Patroclus

The book even acknowledges it later on, when Briseis is saying goodbye to him . . . "'Best of men. Best of Myrmidons.' She places her fingers to my lips, stopping my objection. 'It is truth,' she says. 'Let it stand for once.'"

In the first half of the book, a lot of Patroclus's pov is dedicated to describing how beautiful and amazing Achilles is. And when you see how ordinary and pathetic Patroclus makes himself look in comparison, you almost start to wonder why Achilles loves him in the first place

But Patroclus was the best of all of them, even better than Achilles. No one else had his kindness, his tenderness, his unwavering care for others

And Achilles knew this. Further on, Briseis says that Patroclus was worth ten of him, and Achilles doesn't disagree

[district9and3quartersforlife]

joe I-said-I’d-never-kill-again goldberg

[userscully]

anthony bridgerton is my favorite brand of male character. he’s a whore with a tragic past and a fear of love. his crimes? being sexy and making terrible choices. and to top it off he’s got eldest sibling disorder. he’s literally perfect.

[whiterosesblackroses]

Tbh same

[boburnhamsguitar]

okay so i've been into book aesthetics for a long time. you know what i mean? the pretty lil pictures people take with their cute little books and the environment of the picture compliments the book being captured? YEAH I AM GOING TO START DOING THAT!

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I think I'm going to do things and then.... I don't.

Who's surprised really

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A relaxing journaling session

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City lights

[chokopoppo]

The worst thing in the entire world is when you’re sweeping a big pile of dirt into a dustpan and it leaves that little coke line of grit behind. No matter how you position your pan or your broom and no matter how many times you sweep over it your outcome cannot change. As immovable as fate. I hate it so

[boburnhamsguitar]

Every one's a spider until there is a feminist around

[bus-noises]

This is genuinely hilarious to me

[sunflxwerwitch]

Stop normalizing the grind and start normalizing whatever this is