Lost in the Labyrinth @dancinglikeelephants - Tumblr Blog

So I spent several hours looking over this blog.

And what I found is:

Owls

Diabeetus

English major puns

more puns

~music~

seriously with the puns

depression

angry feminism

I can’t decide if I love myself or if I hate myself.

I promise to do better, Tumblr.

fancyeliza-deactivated20200804

the great gatsby isnt a very cinematic book to be fair though like

its one of those books where nothing happens and i dont mean that in a bad way i just mean that theres a lot of parties and naval gazing and then gatsby dies and it’s just a bit like

THERE’S NO REAL PLOT THE BOOK IS A HARSH METAPHOR HARSH METAPHORS RARELY MAKE CINEMATIC GREATS

dancinglikeelephants

Um.

Plot: Nick tries to make a fortune, so he goes East, where he finds out he has a crazy neighbor who has gigantic lavish parties EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND and then he goes and has lunch with his cousin and her family and friend and WOW LOVE INTEREST FOR NICK appears in the form of Jordan Baker, and CONFLICT UH-OH Tom is having an affair GASP SHOCK INTRIGUE, and they go up to New York a lot and Nick meets Tom’s love affair and then gets snuggly with Jordan Baker because love interest and then Nick finally gets to go to one of these partys and IT’S GRAND AND GLITTERY AND SPARKLY AND LAVISH AND HOLY SHIT WOW and that makes for a great movie scene, let’s be honest, and then he meets Gatsby, and then he and Gatsby go on adventures together and we don’t really get a lot of that, I’ll be honest, but they make up for it because then Gatsby and Daisy start their affair and then Tom finds out and WOW TENSION and then everything kind of spirals into a mess of drunken parties and awkward conversations and finally culminates in DAISY FUCKING KILLING SOMEONE and Gatsby covering it up and then it turns out to be Tom’s mistress and the mistress’s husband finds out who killed her and goes and fucking MURDERS GATSBY.

TELL ME THERE IS NO PLOT TO THIS STORY. THERE IS LOVE AND MURDER AND PARTIES. THAT’S LIKE THE BEST PLOT EVER.

dancinglikeelephants

This is by far the best thing I’ve ever written about the Great Gatsby.

#my writing

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hey there delilah what’s it like in new york city

i’m a thousand miles away but tonight you look so pretty

yes you do

i’ve got ten cameras in your room

i’m watching you

#holy shit i was clever

Oh hello Tumblr.

I forgot I had you.

#It's me #i'm baaaaaaaack

kushandwizdom

flaowww

This morning there’s snow everywhere. We remark on it. You tell me you didn’t sleep well. I say I didn’t either. You had a terrible night. “Me too.” We’re extraordinarily calm and tender with each other as if sensing the other’s rickety state of mind. As if we knew what the other was feeling. We don’t, of course. We never do. No matter. It’s the tenderness I care about. That’s the gift this morning that moves and holds me. Same as every morning.

"The Gift" by Raymond Carver (via flaowww)

eye-nigma-deactivated20150114

There’s a winged liner “terminology” reference list going around and I decided to give them correct names.

trumpetangst

MUSICAL NOTATION, AS DESCRIBED BY CATS

(I would have liked to crop some of these gifs (like the accent ones) to make them more accurate but alas, I lack the skills.)

#OH MY GOD

janiceghosthunter-deactivated20

rig0r-m0rtis-blog

INCREDIBLY even more stunning in person.

spookyglasses

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

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This is my favorite bookstore in the world. I make it a point to visit at least once a year. It's in Baltimore, Maryland, on the Inner Harbor. It's fantastic, especially to sit on the second floor and look out over the harbor with a good book...

therewillbeburgers

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Did none of the 46,000 people who gave this post notes notice that the hamburger is upside down in the wrapper?

labirdgeoiseed-deactivated20140

this is my favorite goofy pun ever, I have told it at least five times

I don’t care, fuck you

okay ready

as you all know, saint patrick walked barefoot as an act of contrition, which made his feet rugged and blistered. he ate an ascetic’s diet, which made him weak and additionally gave him bad breath.

all of this made him

a super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis