beatitudes

like my mirror years ago

[dorianegraye]

Bonus+

cinematic parallels:

In the Mood for Love 花樣年華 (2000)

Madwoman MV (2026)

the final shot of hudson with his cigar activated a dormant part of my brain :)

[dorianegraye]

I am back in the fucking building again because of catholicism.

[francesthinks]

Donna Tartt is a genius and I feel like tsh fandom has it kinda wrong

while reading The Secret History there’s a specific passage that has stuck out to me every time and it’s pages 510-512. Richard essentially stops the story to reflect on Julian as a person, as a real person. 

the writing here is beautiful but something about it seems important. 

to sum it up, Richard comes to the conclusion that Julian’s problem (fatal flaw if you will) is that he ignores bad things to focus on good things (paraphrasing obviously). Specifically Richard keeps talking about Julian’s fascination with beauty. 

Now if you just decide to trust Richard you could be like “yeah ok makes sense.”

but why the fuck would you trust richard

The most famous quote of the book comes from (as far as I can remember) the only scene in which we get an in depth look into what the hell actually goes on in the classics class. 

“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. 

“And what is beauty?”

“Terror.” 

“Well said,” said Julian. “Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

so he’s literally doing the exact opposite of what richard said lol

he’s not ignoring horrific parts of things he’s embracing them as the fundamentally driving force of their beauty. 

So richard is wrong (and no one is surprised) 

there’s more passages of julian basically being like “violence and death is hot!” but we don’t need to go over that it’s pages 38-39. 

I think this is particularly interesting because it shows that even in reflecting over julian in hindsight richard is still, in a way, under his spell.

When you read the book under the premise that julian is an extremely privileged man who spreads his beliefs of tragedy being beautiful, to privileged youth who have never experienced such tragedy and are people longing for a sense of beauty, this all makes a lot more sense.

[plaidos]

there should be all-trans casts in tv and movies. i want trans sitcoms. i want trans heist movies, i want trans action-dramas, i want trans sports films. i want trans star wars and trans star trek and trans star gate. i want trans murder mysteries and trans love stories. i need trans heroes and villains and love interests and rivals. i want trans law films and trans cartoons. i want trans pirates, trans cowboys, trans knights, trans secret agents, trans superheroes, trans assassins, trans wizards, trans monster hunters. somebody give me trans trashy teen drama, trans musicals, serious movies about heartbreak and betrayal and family and loss and growth where the protagonists are trans. we need more trans directors, trans writers, trans actors, fucking trans prop department. i’m sick of being a side character in a one off episode.

[sukerokus]

« #10: crybaby

“akira, why am i the only one talking? right now… i’m feeling something. what is this? tell me. what is this, akira? feel what i’m feeling right now.”

[seize-the-dms]

Read the secret history and now I can’t listen to The Cult of Dionysus the same ever again

[butchsombra]

followers who show up regularly in my notifications: i see you and i appreciate you so much

[oikawas]

No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for ‘good luck’. 

SIX OF CROWS DUOLOGY (by @lbardugo)

[carswells]

remember, he demanded. remember who you are. nikolai lantsov. ruler of ravka. privateer. soldier. second son of a disgraced king.

[duartue]

I don’t know! Maybe I like your stupid face.

@alekmorozova: make me choose between alarkling or [ wesper ]

[scryingparrish]

“I see sound. Mozart looks like this. You know. Fast strings.” “See? In front of you?” “Yes. I’m not mad.” “I didn’t think so.”

[zeziliazink]

Fanfic Classics, batch 1 (Drarry)

I made some Serious Literary Work Book Covers (à la Penguin Classics) for a random smattering of some of my favorites fics. Here’s batch 1! Definitely more batches coming soon because I can’t stop making these, I’m having so much fun, omg. (Click to view bigger.)

Dear Enemy by @gingertodgers

Running on Air by eleventy7

Sparks from the Fox’s Tail by khalulu

Who We Are in the Shadows by @quicksilvermaid

As the Lights Lift Around Us by @zeziliazink

Grounds for Divorce by @tepre

Let Him Lead Me to the Banquet by @harryromper

Brevem Conspectum by lauren3210

Pathless Woods by onereader @shealwaysreads

Exceeds Eggspectations by Elle Gray @diligent-thunder

If I missed someone’s tag let me know!! ❤️

(All paintings used are in the public domain.)

[daywing-moved]

@novelsnet​ event 01: get to know the members — THE NIGHT CIRCUS.

now the circus is open. now, you may enter.

[jawnkeets]

⎨Literature Edits⎬→ The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’” 

[teensapphic]

hey fun fact: obese wlw are just as sapphic as thin wlw. fat girls are allowed to love girls and to like / want sex with girls and to love themselves and to be lesbians or bi or pan or poly. fat and obese women are not disgusting or wrong when loving women or when having sex with women or when wanting sex with women

[teensapphic]

you should reblog this tbh

[catlaila]

@fandomaestheticnet:​ end of the year event » red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston

the moment you first called me a prick, my fate was sealed. o, fathers of my bloodline! o, ye kings of olde! take this crown from me, bury me in my ancestral soil. if only you had known the mighty work of thine loins would be undone by a gay heir who likes it when american boys with chin dimples are mean to him. 

[parhelias]

It’s amazing how much blue there is in the world, if you look. You’re different colors of flame: Bismuth burns blue, and cerium, germanium, and arsenic. See? I pour you into things.