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Classicist by education & literature fiend by nature 🌟 But none of my irl friends like reading, so... this is my brain-dump

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🌱 1700s-1800s lit (especially gothic!)

🐛 Queer themes

🍄 Poetry and/or poetic prose

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Frequent tags:

#book review #meme #5 stars #4.5 stars #4 stars #3.5 stars #3 stars #2.5 stars

weltenwellen

Hanif Abdurraqib, "Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything"

#gsgdgg... yuh #poetry

grvwlkr

my brother hurts i share his pain i meet god in him

#sobbing screaming as we speak #my beloved. my horrible beloved #the exorcist book #the exorcist #father karras

shu-bullshit

They’ll always have a good ending here

#MY LOVE #so sorry. just finished the exorcist book #father karras #the exorcist

dandyreads

oh so you're romantically obsessed with a guy who regularly hurts you? Get in line

dandyreads

Okay update. I finished The Chocolate War. Ouch

#the chocolate war #ya lit

oh so you're romantically obsessed with a guy who regularly hurts you? Get in line

#also i'm going to be so real. I haven't finished The Chocolate War yet but I'm 3/4ths thru it #A Separate Peace will forever be my fav out of these three tho #also am I the only one getting mlm infatuation vibes from The Chocolate War? i couldn't find any literary analysis on it #whatev #a separate peace #john knowles #the chocolate war #robert cormier #lord of the flies #william golding #ya lit #young adult literature #lit memes #book memes

Oops forgot to post for 5 billion years. BUT I HIT MY 2025 READING GOAL OF 200 BOOKS!!! Anyway here's a Lucy Foley round-up

🐦‍⬛ Midnight Feast: 4/5⭐️

Already reviewed this one in a different post!

🔑 The Paris Apartment: 5/5⭐️

I am massively upset. I will continue to be massively upset.

This is caviar for troubled bisexuals

🌊 The Guest List: 3/5⭐️

Definitely worth a read!

It made me nervous though 😭 I think there were too many topics in it that make me genuinely uncomfortable, but it's probably just a matter of personal experience

❄️ The Hunting Party: 5/5⭐️

The bisexuals are back to winning. But the bisexuals are actually just me this time

I found 2 characters particularly hot and that has undeniably skewed my opinion

Customary memes:

#lucy foley #the hunting party #the guest list #the paris apartment #the midnight feast #mystery #romance #murder mystery #true crime #family drama #book review #bookblr #5 stars #books #4 stars #3 stars

z0mbiemind

Someone mentioned Jeremy looked lonely in this artwork…naturally, I had to add Jean!👀

Thanks to the person who gave me this idea, I love it!

#GORGEOUS!!!!! IM JN LOVE!!!! aftg #jean moreau #jeremy knox

utopians

don't EVER let softcore gay porn convince you that it's okay to play sports. It's not okay to play sports

#^ Jeremy's mother talking to him about exy #aftg

skittypilled

g0blinwitch

#this is exactly how A Court Of Thorns And Roses sound to me

farmgf

if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it being the last line of the brokeback mountain novella is so crazy it makes me feel like my guts are falling out. if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it. jesus fucking christ

farmgf

god. god

#always a gut punch to be reminded of this line #brokeback mountain

korrioak

Some concepts for Patroclus featuring his nine dogs 🐕

#THE HELMETTT my love #gorgeous work #patroclus

baejax-the-great

I really feel for Paris because everyone is always dogging on him for his horny decisions, but what options did he really have?

A goddess gave him a wife. Was he really supposed to just give her back and risk the wrath of the goddess? Especially when said goddess is literally in his bedroom watching him fuck the wife she gave him??? Was giving her back a real option here?

jazzdoesbadpoetry

He could have chosen a different goddess, like he was always going to piss off two of them, so the logical choice would be to choose one whose gift wouldn't have started the war that killed his family

baejax-the-great

Okay go ahead and write an entire essay on how choosing the goddess of war or the goddess offering him power over all of Europe would have been "logical" choices for keeping his family and people safe.

I'll wait.

#....has anyone written a moody deaddove fic about Paris fucking Helen while intensely afraid of Aphrodite #and Helen consenting to whats happening but still wordlessly begs Paris to find a way out of this situation for them both #like they both know theyre under the thumb of a goddess who puppets the most tender vulnerable part of the human psyche #hm. hmm. tbd