Nevermore

Classic lit / bookblr side blog of @impatentpending

[prettyboybyers]

This is Shitty but oh well

I love her sm <3

[scary-white]

Carrie: No.

Sue:

Carrie: ...What did I tell you about batting your eyelashes at me?

Sue: *sighing* It only works on Tommy.

[bluestthingsonearth]

a poem about stillness.

[scary-white]

I don't feel bad for the students who died at prom bc it's not carrie's fault they couldn't roll with her autistic girl swag

[doctormarvello]

Weena and the time traveler . :)

[lungthief]

watching the US ban more books and make robot police dogs

[shrinewreck-moving]

sorry for seeing the divine in the monstrous. not my fault.

[shrinewreck-moving]

sorry for making the divine monstrous. that one is my fault i take full credit for it.

[funnytwittertweets]

[adampvrrish]

not to be a cunt but the way people seem to write books now by cherry picking favorite tropes and character cliches and mashing them together with a basic overplayed plot.. and then it's marketed online and even in physical book stores literally just by describing the book by its trope usage and people eat it up like slay fake dating or gay enemies to lovers 😍 like okay but what is the book ABOUT is the writing good what's the plot what's the message? they're all soulless and like bioengineered to be immediate bestsellers with zero depth

[cheesymorgue]

heyy i saw that meme and thought of Hamlet so i drew the emo boy

[spockswoman]

I read this line and my heart just about stopped. If this isn’t the most Spirk line in the universe I don’t know what is. From the book “The Price of the Phoenix”.

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

The holy grail of searching through academic literature is coming across a string of publications that are like:

Here’s An Idea. Smith et al. 2016

Terrible Idea; a comment on Smith et al. 2016. Johnson 2016.

You’re Wrong Too; a response to Johnson 2016. Nelson 2016.

Guys Just Stop Fighting, None Of Us Know What’s Going On; a Review of the Current Literature. McBrien 2017.

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Not even an exaggeration.

[thiswaitingheart]

“If We Knew What We Were Doing, It Would Not be Called Research, Would It?”

[alberto-balsalm]

[nalgenebottle-deactivated201706]

*goes to Coachella in a white linen suit like an antebellum lawyer, sweating profusely and dabbing at my forehead with a handkerchief* now, I’m no fancy scientist, but would you folk know where a simple gentleman such as myself could obtain some acid? Now, I’m no big city lawyer, but could any of you fine youths point a country boy such as myself in the direction of some fucking acid?

[bladedamus]

easily a contender for post of the decade

[nowwheresmynut]

sigh

[edgy-sparknotes]

yt people are really out here like ‘ohhhh having poc in period dramas is UNREALISTIC, there weren’t poc in ye olde england!’ as if othello does not exist

[nerd-geek-solidarity]

#also it’s heavily implied throughout twelfth night that viola and Sebastian aren’t white like idk what to tell ya

Wait, it was? I totally missed that, could u say where?

[edgy-sparknotes]

Ok, so I have like 3 big points of evidence for this:

A big part of twelfth night and it’s varying interpretations is that Viola/Cesario is clearly an outsider in Illyria, which is part of the Balkan peninsula. It’s a way of making light of the miscommunications between the main characters, a ‘oh they do things differently where they’re from’ of sorts. 

Additionally the balkan peninsula borders Turkey and North Africa, and since Viola and Sebastian were in a shipwreck, it would make sense that they were travelling upwards from Asia or Africa.

There’s also the queer subtext of Twelfth Night to take into consideration. While most of the christian world was fairly homo/transphobic, many Asian, African and American cultures accepted homosexuality and had specific trans and non-binary genders. It’d make a lot more sense for Viola and Sebastian to casually cross dress (and for Sebastian to become romantically involved with Antonio) if their culture was more accepting then that of Illyria and Europe in general. 

Since Shakespeare was himself bisexual, it’s not implausible that he would’ve implied this to specifically further the gay agenda of the play. So while it was a ‘haha funny cross-dressing’ joke to the white straight people of the audience, the queer/poc audience members would recognize these elements and see it as a further note that this story was meant for them

[godlessondheimite]

[fluffmugger]

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

[pennie-dreadful]

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

[mikkeneko]

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

[three--rings]

My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument.  Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM.  The message is that it is BAD. 

My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.

[themistypoet]

desi dark academia mood board

eldest child. artistic, botany student. hiding behind saccharin smiles and soft frowns. voice tingling until it stops serenading. will the expectations ever stop?

sing to me to me, Aaranya. the forest you grew around yourself, is humming, with the vibrations of your music.