Ink and Astra

23. ♓♒. this is an sns blog at this point. writing. anime. books.

[manhu]

Naruto's confident and determined gaze while trying to save his friend, lover and soulmate Sasuke from darkness will always be very special to me.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

[phoenixyfriend]

Reblog if you write fanfic and would be totally down with your followers coming into you askbox and talking to you about your fic

[littlelioncub43]

Talk to me a bit, eh? 🥰

[bucky-barnes-diaries]

Totally!!

[biracy]

Hot defense of Catcher in the Rye: What Holden does w the word "phony" is what you guys are doing with like. the word "eeby deeby"

[inkandastra]

He honestly doesn't even say "phony" very much? I was expecting to read it way more

[boozey-buddy]

People who loathe Holden give me bad vibes he’s a misguided teenager struggling deeply from unprocessed trauma and mental problems why do you hate him so much

[sanjidysphoria]

not caring about why the author intended the curtains to be blue is the reason why most of you misinterpret the entirety of the catcher in the rye and it's sad

[adrasteiax]

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.””

— J.D. Salinger, from The Catcher In The Rye

[inkandastra]

I mean, how can anyone read this and not see how caring and sweet Holden is. His life ambition is to protect the innocence of children - it is not a self-serving ambition at all.

[joby4ever]

People talk about Catcher in the Rye like Holden Caulfield spends his time kicking orphans he finds on the street and then u read the book and he’s literally just some guy

[inkandastra]

I recently finished reading The Catcher in the Rye. I was quite stunned about halfway through by how disliked Holden Caulfield is and how unwarranted it is. He is a depressed teenager with questionable coping mechanisms, sure, but it astounds me how people villainise him so.

[poetsonthebus]

Anyone else haunted by the conflict that comes from living a life?

Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen) / Keaton Henson / Oscar Wilde (?) / Sweet and bitter magic (Tooley) / Albert Camus / Dead poets society ( Peter Weir) / Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) / The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) / Bukowski / Mahmoud Darwish / Maggie Stiefvater / The Secret History (Tartt) / Sylvia Plath/ Inside (Bo Burnham) / Midnight in Paris / Doc Luben / V.E. Schwab / 500 days of Summer (Marc Webb) / Nora Sakavic / Nora Sakavic / V.E. Schwab / Holly Black / Nora Sakavic / Maggie Stiefvater / Kafka / I was born for this (Alice Oseman) / V.E. Schwab / The starless sea (Erin Morgenstern ) / The starless sea / The starless sea / Dead poets society / Steve McCurry

(thanks to everyone who edited everything, I'm sorry I can't find you and credit your work to you)

[svmeragi]

By your side by i

[gaylord-zuko]

I don’t understand when people complain about “likespamming.” If I see the same person 20 times in a row in my notifs, even if they don’t reblog anything or follow me, I’m excited that they came to my gay little museum and had a good time! That’s literally what it’s for!!

[inkandastra]

People don't like this??

[quotespile]

“I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.”

— Banana Yoshimoto, Amrita

[railnaruto]

Orochimaru: my Sasuke

Naruto:

[brokenyouth]

- It’s impossible, we’ll both be done for! You need to escape without me.

- There should be some way to defeat him right now.

BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS (episode 204)

[inkandastra]

So, I just came across this quote by Kaz Brekker from Crooked Kingdom, which he says to Inej

And, it sounded....familiar

Just putting that out there :)

[linghelpsite]

In today’s update, we’ve added pages for Amharic, Hakka, Vietnamese, Welsh and Wenzhounese resources, and have added resources to the Akan, Albanian, Bengali, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Evenki, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Swedish and Tamil pages! Go here to start learning!

[linghxr]

Language Resources Masterpost

Today I am sharing with you guys all my collection of language textbook pdfs :D They are mostly for Russian and Mandarin, but I have a few Korean resources too. Please note that I have not personally used all of these books, so I cannot vouch for their quality. If any of the links are broken, please let me know! All links are to dropbox files.

Mandarin

A Kaleidoscope of China (advanced)

A New China (intermediate)

All Things Considered (advanced)

Anything Goes (advanced)

Basic Chinese (workbook)

Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (grammar)

Chinese: An Essential Grammar (grammar)

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar (grammar)

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar (workbook)

Reading to Write: An Advanced Textbook of Chinese (advanced)

Schaum’s Outlines: Chinese Grammar (grammar)

The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course (advanced)

The Routledge Course in Chinese Media Literacy (advanced)

Russian

Ultimate Russian (advanced)

Using Russian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage

A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (grammar)

A Russian Grammar Workbook (workbook)

Colloquial Russian 2 (intermediate)

Russian Verbal Prefixes (grammar)

Glossika Guide to Russian Pronunciation and Grammar

Intermediate Russian: A Grammar and Workbook (intermediate)

An Advanced Russian Tabloid Reader (advanced)

A Living Russian Grammar (grammar)

Basic Russian: A Grammar and Workbook (beginner）

Russian in Exercises (beginner)

Russian Verbs of Motion

Using Russian Vocabulary (vocab)

The Big Silver Book of Russian Verbs (vocab)

Live From Russia Stage 1 Volume 1 (beginner)

Live From Russia Stage 1 Volume 2 (beginner)

Korean

Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook (beginner)

Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook (intermediate)

Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar (grammar)

Korean Grammar in Use (beginner)