copy of a copy

[kseniyamnz]

parallels between ‘the secret history’ and ‘the picture of dorian gray’

i’ve recently reread two of these books back to back and i couldn’t help but notice some of their similarities, so here you go

this is just a small part of all of my annotations in tsh and like 90% of them are quotes from ‘the picture of dorian gray’

[theskeletonsinourclosets]

telling someone the plots of books is so funny cause what do i mean my favourite book is a romeo and juliet retelling with a headlice epidemic

[kseniyamnz]

“You accused me of being a philanderer, and suddenly I wanted to prove you wrong. You wanted daffodils at your wedding, and suddenly I wanted to be the one beside you at the altar watching you hold them. I wanted it to be real. I wanted it all to be real.”

“I will love you if I please. I will make you my altar, I’ll put you above anything else in this world, I’ll revel in every morsel you are made of. It’s simple - just tell me you don’t feel the same, and I’ll let you go. But I won’t accept your refusal on the make-believe grounds of our work.”

CHLOE GONG THE WOMAN YOU ARE

[tlirsgender]

I'm really not a very angry person there's just a lot of rage inside me

[tlirsgender]

There's something terrible boiling bubbling under my skin ready to burst out of my chest but I'm a chill guy

[feminescu]

i am not my mother and i am not my father but a third worse thing

[floridakilo]

their daughter

[ursulaklegay]

its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

[ursulaklegay]

daily reminder that if you like something someone made tell! them! tell them tell them tell them TELL THEM

[bearsintreesofficial]

be cringe about your interests!! be embarrassing about the things that matter to you!! be unashamedly annoying with regards to the things that make your world go round!! the world is a better place because of it!!

[inthe-echo]

I can’t help falling in love with you

[willemsvetiver]

Willem Ragnarsson (A Little Life) / I'm Your Man (Mitski)

[tench]

[rvnesque]

a girl (me) vs the all-consuming urge to read to her favourite book for the umpteenth time (the secret history)

[fildorwrites-deactivated2024111]

I am not arrogant enough to do it, but i want to create a group where we read a book once a month to then comment it while smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey and scotch all the while talking about politics and philosophy

[salvadorbonaparte]

Posting only a snippet to protect the person's identity and because I don't want to attack them personally but comment on the many similar opinions I have seen:

[ID: a screenshot of a tumblr post reading "Don't get me wrong. But translating a poem loses it's meaning and soul."]

No one is as aware of translation loss as translators themselves. No one is as aware of translation gains as translators themselves either.

On tumblr, there are many posts about how reading something in translation "can't make you grasp the original" or how subtitles or dubs are "inaccurate". This is incredibly unkind to translators who work very hard and usually get paid very little to make books or audiovisual media accessible to you at all (not even to mention all the other areas of translation you're not even aware of).

Of course, some translators make mistakes. But writers make typos too and some make it into published books. Of course, there are cases of manipulation or censorship, I wrote my thesis on this, but more often than not these cases were caused by outside forces not the translators themselves. There are bad translations like there are bad novels or films.

I want more people to think of translation as a creative process that has nearly infinite strategies and choices. Translations differ because they are made by humans. They differ because there are as many ways to translate something as there are to write something. A translation will always necessarily differ from its source because, and it sounds really silly saying this out loud, it's in a different language. And at the same time, the translator is in a constant dialogue with the author and audience, trying to bridge a gap between them.

Translation is not meaningless and not soulless. It adds to the original the soul of the translator.

[letterstomichelangelo]

right who posted that picture of lin manuel miranda in that one pose with the caption "boris leaving theos house with the goldfinch up his ass"

[northeasts]

saw a tikrok which said that boris would be okay with loving a boy if it was not theo, and theo would be okay with loving boris if he was not a boy and yeah. hello. brainrot time.

[frothingbeerbottles]

I’d like to bring to your attention how Theo says “mumbled a welcome voice—” he had felt so many feelings for Boris at that point that he couldn’t even describe how he felt when he first heard his voice. He just described the sound of his voice as “welcome” like Boris had snuck his way into Theo’s heart at first meeting. Crying and ripping my hair out tbh

[no1bylertruther-deactivated2023]

yeah