arte et marte

—by skill and valor. ya lit (pjo, soc, etc), various shows, and whatever really

[cheschi]

kinda crazy and freeing and scary and exciting to think that i can write anything i want and in any style like i don’t have to follow any rules i can write the book i want however i want to write it!!!!!

[i-am-a-f4iry]

i love love LOVE a romance where the ml has been secretly pinning for the fl all along

[thebellekeys]

rivals-to-lovers eats enemies-to-lovers for breakfast btw

[cheschi]

i can’t stop making playlists for my wips

[cheschi]

guys i’m almost halfway done with my first draft..it’s a long process but we keep going!!!!!!

[cheschi]

honestly bring back slow publishing and let authors release a book once a year MAX

[journoeil]

what bothers me most about Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights is the discourse that continues to be propagated (often by women themselves!) that because it was written by a woman, the novel must reflect the kind of relationship the author secretly dreamed of, that she was quirky, dark, perhaps secretly romantic in a morbid way. if it had been written by a man, everyone would say: “oh, the author is analyzing toxic relationships through these characters. he’s criticizing them.” it always bothered me that Brontë was immediately branded as a weird lovelorn woman, when in reality there is not much in her biography to attest to that. she was just a very intelligent writer who thought about a very intelligent subject like any of her male counterparts.

the canon always sees men as universal observers and geniuses who undertake social studies, but when it comes to women, they are reduced to being mere subjective chroniclers of interiority, supposedly recording their personal romantic fantasies.

many novels contain a romantic thread. among other things, Wuthering Heights opens with one. but most of the book is about revenge, cruelty, trauma, inheritance, generational damage etc. and yet, because it was written by a woman, only the love story is treated as significant.

if Wuthering Heights had been written by, say, F. Scott Fitzgerald, critics would likely praise the ruthless anatomy of obsession. I am just so sick of this. I sure would love to see the day when The Great Gatsby is marketed as the greatest love story ever told, overflowing with loose erotic scenes, rather than the highbrow social critique it’s usually presented as. the idea that women write “from emotion” while men write “from intellect” is still too deeply sedimented in how we talk about art.

[ostolero]

[parakeet]

if you go looking for doom and gloom all you will see is doom and gloom. if you go looking for reduced items at the grocery store you may find a littol treat

[washiing-machine]

i think tim and steph would 100% skateboard together

[ghostiiest]

love! love! love!

[lydiamurtin]

“I’m one of those people who believe that words are some of the last forms of magic that exist, If you can alter people’s feelings through rhymes, couplets and melodies, it’s really a fun job to have. I find myself sometimes going back and forth between writing autobiographically and living vicariously through my own lyrics.”

[cheschi]

listening to the great divide and thinking about home at 2am now im throwing up and screaming and crying

[cheschi]

i got really anxious last night reading people’s posts about how they got their agent and i just got so anxious and started spiraling about what happens if i don’t get an agent or if my books don’t sell but i had to remind myself i was thinking too many steps ahead and i just need to make it through this very first draft :) and all timelines are in my head whew

[alacerlucifer]

[electricbreeze]

Schrödinger’s boys

[klubbhead]

FUCK

[alphahoennomega]

What about cracking open a cold milkshake

[crystalsoulslayer]

As we all know, the milkshake brings the boys to the yard. The presence of the boys is a prerequisite for the cracking open of a cold one, but cold ones do not have any inherent boy-attracting abilities. Milkshakes, however, do. All else being equal, the boys would proceed to the milkshake yard. While it is possible to announce the presence of cold ones in the hope of attracting some boys, the pull of the milkshake is much more powerful by comparison.

[6qubed]

mind you, all of this nonsense hinges on whether or not the boys are back in town

[cheschi]

uber driver played here without you mhmm that’s music taste

[paintingses]

Bouguereau + Fruits, flowers, foliage, etc…