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i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.

as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”

small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.

i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.

#:)

ghostofjupiter8

Jesus I forgot how obvious Watson is in some of these stories.

"Long, thin fingers" in italics is taking me out (you keep that to yourself Watson), not to mention "dreamy eyes."

#alr watson we get it lmao #acd watson #acd holmes

my-dailydreams

#call me patrick the way i do in fact live under a rock

gokucat

feeding her stuffie must live on....

#🥺💖🐱#🥺💖🐍

juliensorelapologist

i don't like pop literature analysis of Wuthering Heights that are like. oh you shouldn't romanticize Heathcliff and Cathy relationship it's like dark romance it sells you a negative view of what love should be about whatver. first of all "not romanticize" i'm sorry my reading of this gothic novel isn't pure enough for you. second! heathcliff is nooot a fucking dark brooding mysterious love interest. the only person to see him this way is Isabella and she's uh pretty clearly wrong and the narrative doesn't shy away from telling you this.

he is! catherine's! childhood friend! she doesn't see him as a handsome mysterious stranger she sees him as her other half and as someone who was there for her and loved her when she was a kid running around and being dirty and improper and deeply disliked by everyone in her house including her father for daring to not live up to the gendered excpectations of what she should be. and she misses being that kid so so so bad, and she hates married life and she wants to go back home even though home was awful and abusive and she ran away from it because at leaaaast she was allowed to be herself there. and heathcliff is home.

and heathcliff isn't obsessed by Cathy the way people describe him she's not a thing to own. she's the only person to have ever loved him apart from his dad for like a few years. she's the only one that doesn't constantly dehumanize him or wait for him to turn into the savage beast they all think he is. he's deeply alienated from the society he grows up in because of his skin color and she! doesn't! care!

sure sure their love is bad for them and those around but you know why it is that way? not because they're toxic or whatever (i mean sure, in part, but) but because they're not fucking allowed to love each others. because god knows and Heathcliff knows and Cathy knows they could never get married. because the only way for Catherine to hope to help him is to marry a nice guy she kind of likes because as a woman she's powerless because even if Heathcliff comes back a gentleman he's only ever be perceived as a crook! because even if he owns "Wuthering Heights" he's "cheated Hareton out of his birthright", because Heathcliff doesn't and will never have a birthright!!

like. Heathcliff is a pretty terrible person. Cathy is sometimes unkind. i wouldn't want that relationship. but you know. if they weren't operating under the rules of the Racist Patriarchal Crushing Machine, they'd maybe get to be kinder to others and each others and themselves! They're not at fault for wanting to be with each others actually it's not a great woke reading to go "wellll they should have moved on and accepted their respective shitty fucking place in society". i'm glad you've moved on from being attracted to insane dangerous men, but then also iiiii think you're missing some themes. maybe.

#wuthering heights #at fault for many things. but not for loving each other #<< !!!

salty-eggg

Of the gothic tragedies I have read, nothing has gripped me more than wuthering heights. The character drama is akin to shakespeare: it's messy, it's wrong, several characters' sufferings are due to their own hamartia, there's premonitions of future death and despair, a character is driven mad by delusions/visions of the dead haunting his sleeping and waking life, there's long monologues that dive deep into characters' psyches, sooo many fucking ppl die. It's soso good I am Shaken

#wuthering heights

captaingr397

#canon fr #sherlock holmes

so-many-ocs

[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

#literally me fr #there's just something about it

everyday-cutephoto

#cat #🥺🥺💖💖

crypticgoose3

how non-writers think writing works: creating a detailed outline and plan, writing each section carefully and weaving in all the different story threads like a master creator, expertly creating a masterpiece with care and precision

how writing actually works: daydreaming that one scene, creating a half-formed plot in a daze all around it, swearing at characters that don't magic themselves into existence, becoming absolutely obsessed with the story for a solid week, it becomes your entire life, you sit down open a blank word document and write approximately two and a half chapters, lose interest, daydream an entirely new idea for a new story, rinse and repeat

#writing #this post is calling me out fr 😭😭

ghostbees

Sherlock Holmes (A Drama in Four Acts)

It is impossible to understate the impact that Gillette’s play had on the public image of Holmes. Now, well over a hundred years later, his interpretation of the character has been altered and diluted by myriad subsequent impersonators, but this is where it all started, and for over thirty years his influence was inescapable. With Doyle’s original script scrapped, rewritten, lost in a fire, and re-written again, all four acts of the drama are pure Gillette. His Holmes is masterly but romantic, a perfect hero for a new international public. The play was also adapted for the screen in 1916, with the man himself in the lead role, and is still performed to this day.

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#sherlock holmes

linnytheseagull

A gothic literature hyperfixation has possessed me so I made this

(This took way longer to make than it reasonably should have)

#gothic literature #frankenstein #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #the picture of dorian gray #dracula

wutheringheightsfilm

actually the worst thing to come out of emerald fennell's butchering of wuthering heights is that we have scores of white people insisting that actually heathcliff isn't a person of color and that he's instead just someone with dark hair and dark eyes or white irish or something as if it's not on page 3 (or page 10 depending on the version you own) that heathcliff is described as "dark skinned [racial slur]" and as if he wasn't found in liverpool, THE largest slave trading port at the time wuthering heights takes place. oh right wait i forgot these people don't read

spore-loser

“ [...] You’re fit for a prince in disguise. Who knows but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen, each of them able to buy up, with one week’s income, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange together? And you were kidnapped by wicked sailors and brought to England. Were I in your place, I would frame high notions of my birth; and the thoughts of what I was should give me courage and dignity to support the oppressions of a little farmer!”

#heathcliff #wuthering heights #heathcliff is not white

aster-likes-space

“Your detective”?

it’s official guys, Holmes is Watson’s detective

that’s his Sherlock Holmes, nobody else’s

#“my watson” this “your detective” that #married behaviour frfr #sherlock holmes #john watson

yeah-thats-probably-it

It had struck me that it was possible that some love intrigue was on foot. That would have accounted for his stealthy movements and also for the uneasiness of his wife. The man is a striking-looking fellow, very well equipped to steal the heart of a country girl, so that this theory seemed to have something to support it.

Watson cannot stop talking about how hot all the men in this house are

thefisherqueen

#watson: If *I* were a country girl I’d enter a love affair with him in a heartbeat (@dathen's tags) #holmes is uneasy about letting watson go alone because he knows watson will immediately crush on any new person he meets#that or calling them ugly in the funniest way possible (@i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end's tags) Stop, I can't 🤣

#the hound of the baskervilles #sherlock holmes #john watson #i love him u guys

moroniccats

Rereading The Hound Of The Baskervilles with my mom and cackling at how the INSTANT Watson is apart from Holmes he turns into the most romantic gothic Victorian horror narrator ever. He is no longer shackled. He is living his goth crime girlie fantasy.