Splendor Solis

[emmanuelleriva]

And in the end, I distilled everything to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.

Dangerous Liaisons (1988) dir. Stephen Frears

[classicmoviesseriesandmore]

John Malkovich as Vicomte de Valmont in  Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

[veerlevdb]

Olivier de Sagazan

[captionmequickly-blog]

Phoenix Latino Cultural Center Phoenix, AZ January 2017

[scotsmanandsassenach]

[farawayvisions]

Harlots Costumes - Charlotte Wells in 2x04

[arcusxx]

art by nemanja bogdano

[ileolai]

Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin called JK Rowling a nasty basic bitch back in like, 2004? We should have listened

[legok9]

“This last is the situation, as I see it, between my A Wizard of Earthsea and J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter. I didn’t originate the idea of a school for wizards — if anybody did it was T.H.White, though he did it in single throwaway line and didn’t develop it. I was the first to do that. Years later, Rowling took the idea and developed it along other lines. She didn’t plagiarize. She didn’t copy anything. Her book, in fact, could hardly be more different from mine, in style, spirit, everything. The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers. When ignorant critics praised her wonderful originality in inventing the idea of a wizards’ school, and some of them even seemed to believe that she had invented fantasy, she let them do so. This, I think, was ungenerous, and in the long run unwise.“

[ileolai]

i found the specific quote i was thinking of x

Q: Nicholas Lezard has written ‘Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.’ What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I’d like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling’s writing style

UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a “school novel”, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.

damn gurl :’]

[formaldehyde--face]

Don’t forget, Ursula K. Le Guin’s parents were some of the earliest sociologists, and they studied people for a living with their child right along with them. She experienced watching and learning from other cultures first-hand when she was young, and it obviously stuck with her her whole life. She always took care to treat her characters, human or “alien,” with humanity, which is something JKR didn’t do even from the get-go. 

She’s not just burning JKR either, but the whole publishing/film powerhouse that uncritically got behind her and made her the nasty billionaire she is today.

[ildottoree]

I remember books “The Worst Witch” written by Jill Murphy. She started the series in 1974 and these books are very similar to the Harry Potter books. I'm sure JKR took a lot from these books for her series.

[thestrawberrynight]

living in the little town, having a big cottage, wearing black lace dress while reading magic books and working with crystals, collecting herbs at midnight and making potions from them while spending time by candlelight

p.s: photos are not mine! If you know the owner, write me, please!

[ildottoree]

J'ai beau me taire

J'ai rêvé trop fort

Quand tout se taille

Si peu qui te donnent

Train de retard

Que sais je de « l'homme » ?

[lucy1999-deactivated20210906]

[pareidoliaaa]

[ildottoree]

I am ashamed that I have such a strong aversion to life. I'm supposed to be happy, but I still don't know how to do it. There is darkness in me and nothing inside that darkness. One void.

[quiet-themind]

‘cause in all the worlds I’ve come upon I never saw another one that sparkled like your diamond in the sun // and even on the silent sea your constellation carries me along

Mylene Farmer & LP - N’oublie Pas

[tisnearhalloween]

[acecroft]

Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather (2006) dir. Vadim Jean

[ildottoree]