Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 太酷炫了这个画风，浓浓的未来感到底是什么2099新奇世界！各个宇宙的碰撞穿梭，不知道这算不算inter-textuality玩得溜飞起。是不是还提到了班克斯！俩蜘蛛侠在实验室天花板那儿吊着的时候确定不是在演碟中谍吗！ 肚腩Peter Parker和徘徊者还有格温都是我的爱！
After doing that Inception fic recommendation post earlier, I thought I should do a follow-up and point out a few stories that I really feel haven’t gotten the attention and readership they deserve. These are all stories I feel should have more comments, more kudos, and more love than they do. So check them out!
you look like my next mistake by graceless_wolf: this is a lovely, very “classic” feeling A/E fic, well done, with wonderful detail and dialogue.
Bangkok Nights by @graveformydarling : I LOVE this fic. It’s a multi-time reread for me. It’s scorching hot, but more than that, it has this incredible atmosphere and attention to detail that makes it visceral. It’s a good short story how-to.
As Leaves That Fall From Trees by @kyrene : I mentioned another of kyrene’s stories, Paper Lanterns Among Dark Trees, in my previous post, but this one deserves love as well. It’s smutty, but the heart and emotion behind it is fascinating, and the concept of an Arthur and Eames that are both using dreamshare to act out their desires and using it to hide from them is too perfect not to be done more.
Bite That Tattoo on Your Shoulder by @bisexualpirateheart : I will not pretend that the incredible heat isn’t what makes me love this story–it is. But even beyond that, the heartbreak running through the story is incredible and so moving.
The Herculean Task (12 Ways of Getting It Right) by @regencyau : when I think of Eames, this story is one of the first that comes to my mind. It is the “story of a dozen totems” and I cannot tell you how much I love that concept, and the way it’s demonstrated in this story.
Contract Killer by @somedrunkpirate : this story is the first in a short series of incredibly well-written fics in which Arthur is Death and Eames is the Devil. And that’s just as a great an idea as it sounds.
I’ve seen you in a fight you lost by xantissa: this story and its sequel, Saw something in your eyes, I wanted for myself, are smoking hot, somewhat disturbing pre-movie in-verse tales of young Arthur and Eames in the military. I am a sucker for an early meeting story, and these are among the best I’ve read.
Same Time, Same Place by @citrinesunset : this is a dark story, and you should heed the warnings, but I love it so much–it is undeniably sexy, and the harshness of it is something I think we don’t see as much of as we should in this fandom.
Please, leave me suggestions of underrated fics you think need more love! I’d be more than pleased to give them some.
You guys, Steven Knight has confirmed this line was improvised. 👊😄🐐
SK: “I don’t like ad-libbing. I think it can lead to confusion and phrases that aren’t in the period. There are exceptions and Tom Hardy is one, as he tends to ad lib. It’s his style and that of the character, who flits all over the place. And yes, it was Tom who ad-libbed ‘Listen, sweetie’ in the last series."
Peaky Blinders Series 4 starts TOMORROW, Wednesday, at 9pm on BBCTwo
And good news: “Peaky Blinders premieres on Nov. 15 overseas and will be added to Netflix on the day of the season finale, which is Dec. 20” (https://netflixlife.com)
“There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.”
Evelyn Waugh on Marcel Proust
“I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.”
Mark Twain on Jane Austen
“I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
Virginia Woolf on James Joyce
“[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”
William Faulkner on Mark Twain
“A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven sure fire literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.”
Henry James on Edgar Allan Poe
“An enthusiasm for Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection.”
W. H. Auden on Robert Browning
“I don’t think Robert Browning was very good in bed. His wife probably didn’t care for him very much. He snored and had fantasies about twelve-year-old girls.”
William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
Virginia Woolf on Aldous Huxley
“All raw, uncooked, protesting.”
H. G. Wells on George Bernard Shaw
“An idiot child screaming in a hospital.”
Martin Amis on Miguel Cervantes
“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 — the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that ‘Don Quixote’ could do.”
Gore Vidal on Truman Capote
“He’s a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.”
Dylan Thomas on Rudyard Kipling
“Mr Kipling … stands for everything in this cankered world which I would wish were otherwise.”
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The relationship between Eames and Arthur is the metaphor of right brain/left brain interaction. Eames is the right, responsible for random, intuitive, holistic, synthesizing, subjective, looks at whole, whereas Arthur is the left, dictating logical, sequential, rational, analytical, objective, looks at parts. Eames put down Arthur as “unimaginative” and Arthur challenged Eames with “specificity”.
An avowed paganist in a time of religious strife, Hypatia was also one of the first women to study math, astronomy and philosophy
One day on the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, in the year 415 or 416, a mob of Christian zealots led by Peter the Lector accosted a woman’s carriage and dragged her from it and into a church, where they stripped her and beat her to death with roofing tiles. They then tore her body apart and burned it. Who was this woman and what was her crime? Hypatia was one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria and one of the first women to study and teach mathematics, astronomy and philosophy. Though she is remembered more for her violent death, her dramatic life is a fascinating lens through which we may view the plight of science in an era of religious and sectarian conflict.
Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C., the city of Alexandria quickly grew into a center of culture and learning for the ancient world. At its heart was the museum, a type of university, whose collection of more than a half-million scrolls was housed in the library of Alexandria.
Alexandria underwent a slow decline beginning in 48 B.C., when Julius Caesar conquered the city for Rome and accidentally burned down the library. (It was then rebuilt.) By 364, when the Roman Empire split and Alexandria became part of the eastern half, the city was beset by fighting among Christians, Jews and pagans. Further civil wars destroyed much of the library’s contents. The last remnants likely disappeared, along with the museum, in 391, when the archbishop Theophilus acted on orders from the Roman emperor to destroy all pagan temples. Theophilus tore down the temple of Serapis, which may have housed the last scrolls, and built a church on the site.
The last known member of the museum was the mathematician and astronomer Theon—Hypatia’s father.
Some of Theon’s writing has survived. His commentary (a copy of a classical work that incorporates explanatory notes) on Euclid’s Elements was the only known version of that cardinal work on geometry until the 19th century. But little is known about his and Hypatia’s family life. Even Hypatia’s date of birth is contested—scholars long held that she was born in 370 but modern historians believe 350 to be more likely. The identity of her mother is a complete mystery, and Hypatia may have had a brother, Epiphanius, though he may have been only Theon’s favorite pupil.
Theon taught mathematics and astronomy to his daughter, and she collaborated on some of his commentaries. It is thought that Book III of Theon’s version of Ptolemy’s Almagest—the treatise that established the Earth-centric model for the universe that wouldn’t be overturned until the time of Copernicus and Galileo—was actually the work of Hypatia.
She was a mathematician and astronomer in her own right, writing commentaries of her own and teaching a succession of students from her home. Letters from one of these students, Synesius, indicate that these lessons included how to design an astrolabe, a kind of portable astronomical calculator that would be used until the 19th century.
Beyond her father’s areas of expertise, Hypatia established herself as a philosopher in what is now known as the Neoplatonic school, a belief system in which everything emanates from the One. (Her student Synesius would become a bishop in the Christian church and incorporate Neoplatonic principles into the doctrine of the Trinity.) Her public lectures were popular and drew crowds. “Donning [the robe of a scholar], the lady made appearances around the center of the city, expounding in public to those willing to listen on Plato or Aristotle,” the philosopher Damascius wrote after her death.
Hypatia never married and likely led a celibate life, which possibly was in keeping with Plato’s ideas on the abolition of the family system. The Suda lexicon, a 10th-century encyclopedia of the Mediterranean world, describes her as being “exceedingly beautiful and fair of form… in speech articulate and logical, in her actions prudent and public-spirited, and the rest of the city gave her suitable welcome and accorded her special respect.”
Her admirers included Alexandria’s governor, Orestes. Her association with him would eventually lead to her death.
Theophilus, the archbishop who destroyed the last of Alexandria’s great Library, was succeeded in 412 by his nephew, Cyril, who continued his uncle’s tradition of hostilities toward other faiths. (One of his first actions was to close and plunder the churches belonging to the Novatian Christian sect.)
With Cyril the head of the main religious body of the city and Orestes in charge of the civil government, a fight began over who controlled Alexandria. Orestes was a Christian, but he did not want to cede power to the church. The struggle for power reached its peak following a massacre of Christians by Jewish extremists, when Cyril led a crowd that expelled all Jews from the city and looted their homes and temples. Orestes protested to the Roman government in Constantinople. When Orestes refused Cyril’s attempts at reconciliation, Cyril’s monks tried unsuccessfully to assassinate him.
Hypatia, however, was an easier target. She was a pagan who publicly spoke about a non-Christian philosophy, Neoplatonism, and she was less likely to be protected by guards than the now-prepared Orestes. A rumor spread that she was preventing Orestes and Cyril from settling their differences. From there, Peter the Lector and his mob took action and Hypatia met her tragic end.
Cyril’s role in Hypatia’s death has never been clear. “Those whose affiliations lead them to venerate his memory exonerate him; anticlericals and their ilk delight in condemning the man,” Michael Deakin wrote in his 2007 book Hypatia of Alexandria.
Meanwhile, Hypatia has become a symbol for feminists, a martyr to pagans and atheists and a character in fiction. Voltaire used her to condemn the church and religion. The English clergyman Charles Kingsley made her the subject of a mid-Victorian romance. And she is the heroine, played by Rachel Weisz, in the Spanish movie Agora, which will be released later this year in the United States. The film tells the fictional story of Hypatia as she struggles to save the library from Christian zealots.
Neither paganism nor scholarship died in Alexandria with Hypatia, but they certainly took a blow. “Almost alone, virtually the last academic, she stood for intellectual values, for rigorous mathematics, ascetic Neoplatonism, the crucial role of the mind, and the voice of temperance and moderation in civic life,” Deakin wrote. She may have been a victim of religious fanaticism, but Hypatia remains an inspiration even in modern times.
I got pretty fed up with looking for words to replace said because they weren’t sorted in a way I could easily use/find them for the right time. So I did some myself.
I’M DRUNK OR JUST BEING WEIRDLY EXPRESSIVE FOR A POINT/SARCASM
Hooted
Howled
Yowled
I WONDER
Pondered
Voiced
Wondered
OH, YEAH, WHOOPS
Recalled
Recited
Remembered
SURPRISE BITCH
Revealed
IT SEEMS FAKE BUT OKAY/HA ACTUALLY FUNNY BUT I DON’T WANT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD
Scoffed
Snickered
Snorted
BITCHY
Tattled
Taunted
Teased
Edit: People, I’m an English and creative writing double major in college; I understand that there’s nothing wrong with simply using “said.” This was just for fun, and it comes in handy when I need to add pizzazz.
Leonard Meyer,“Concerning the Sciences, the Art AND the humanities ,"神秘与秩序刺激着人类去探索，创造新的假设。科学家的目标是要发现外在世界的秩序，艺术家则是要-创造自己的内在秩序，亦即从自己的主观经验与感受中发掘意义。这两种形式的创造力，全都是人类天生就具备的“神圣的不满”在推动着。
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