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Name: Lex or Lexi

Favorite Authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky, C.S Lewis, Charlotte Brontë

Currently Reading: Villette

Book List:

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkein

Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

The Great Divorce by C.S Lewis

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

The Prince by Niccolo Machieveli

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Need to reread)

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On this blog:

Stories and fanfics: I write my own stuff and fan works. I’m currently drafting outlines right now for two original stories and one fanfiction.

Playlists: I make playlists for both OC’s and reimagining's of already pre-established characters.

Prompts or Questions: When my ask box is open, feel free to ask me stuff, at my own discretion I’ll answer them.

Aesthetic posts: I will make posts for characters of my own, stories, ships, etc.

Rules:

This is my blog, I write what I want and set the rules. No smut, if I get requests for it they will be deleted and ignored. Also, I have the option to reject anything I don’t feel comfortable writing or don’t want to write. The same goes for any art made on these accounts.

This blog is SFW, if you are into NSFW I'd recommend going somewhere else. In tandem with the last rule, I don't want to see porn of any kind (since most people don't listen to this, I'm starting to become more strict about this over time).

Be respectful, I assume if you’re old enough to use this app, you’re old enough to not flood someone's inbox or asks with nasty comments. Again, if you are not worth responding to I will A) delete it or B) ignore your message and block you.

OC Questions/ Profiles/ Headcanons:

Leomito OTP Questions

Kirill Veniamin Kovalev (OC Profile/ questions)

Anna Sashura Egorova (OC Profile/ questions)

Gregor Dmitri Kovalev (OC Profile/questions)

Playlist ⏯️:

Author Picks 4.19.2022

Leomito Playlist #1

Fanfics:

Danny Devito House Snippet

University Sucks Short Stories

Open Window (LeoMito fic)

Pilgrimage (A Kurapika one shot)

My Brother Under the Sun (A fic where Leorio goes on a hunt to find Kurapika)

Guarded (A Hisomachi one shot, Hospital AU)

To love and be loved

The Education of Alison D’agistino:

con·fec·tion·er·y (unedited version)

Breakup Duo

Hidden Apostate

We Need a New Apartment

Unwavering

“It’s been a long, long time”

‘If it were your daughter, it would be different’

Doomscrolling Doomtrolling

Bread

Mild January Drinks

Puritans and Icons

Unknown Rooms and Rosaries

“Past the Point of No Return”

Bravery to Repent

Pastel Virtue (con·fec·tion·er·y edited final version)

Forever Hold Your Peace

Pseudo-Mother

Alison and Shannon

Arguments

Contradiction

August:

Desire for Something Unwanted

Other stories:

A Face in a Room

Hidden in the Woods

Separation

La Petite Mort

Updated: 9/11/2023

Blog Posts:

The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Blog Post #1)

#writblr #artblr #fandom #writing #art #rules #anything darker I write will have a tw #🌻

sunsbleeding

onibi-onibi

(おじゃま攻撃かと思いきや | キュルZ＠5巻7/27 さんのマンガ | ツイコミ(仮)から)

wordstream

Translation:

You aren’t going to get in my way today?

Ah, it was just a new type of attack.

ashtabharya-deactivated20240717

keepcalmandcarriefischer

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdQuxw52/

I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful

saint-batrick

if you're not from the us american south, there's some amazing nuances to this you may have missed. i can't really describe all of them, because i've lived here my whole life and a lot of the body language is sort of a native tongue thing. the body language is its own language, and i am not so great at teaching language. i do know i instinctively sucked on my lower teeth at the same time as he did, and when he scratched the side of his face, i was ready to take up fucking arms with him.

but y'all. the way he said "brutus is an honourable man" - each and every time it changed just a little. it was the full condemnation Shakespeare wanted it to be. it started off slightly mock sincere. barely trying to cover the sarcasm. by the end...it wasn't a threat, it was a promise.

christ, he's good.

anais-ninja-bitch

the eliding of “you all” to “y’all” while still maintaining 2 syllables is a deliberate and brilliant act of violence. “bear with me” said exactly like i’ve heard it at every funeral. the choices of breaking and re-establishing of eye contact. the balance of rehearsed and improvised tone. A+++ get this man a hollywood contract.

that-catholic-shinobi

Always reblog Southern Marc Antony

irishironclad

Odysseus's story, particularly how it's shown in Epic, just shows how horrible a world is without a loving God and a saviour. Odysseus would have wept at Christ's feet.

thesunnahthebetter

emiyl13

come back tweelor we miss you

heavenlyflowergrocery

postsatthepeakofperfection

The word you are looking for is “selfish.” Not narcissist, not sociopath, selfish.

miggylol

fictionadventurer

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”. The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA.

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

datasnake

Other examples of “blamed for things their copycats did” include Watchmen (blamed for the gritty antihero comics of the 90s) and Madoka Magica (blamed for excessively edgy and grimdark magical girl shows).

fictionadventurer

Four years on, and I think you might be the first person to add this type of comment to this post. After receiving so many comments that are like “THG is nowhere near on the level of LotR” or “THG didn’t invent YA dystopia”, it’s so refreshing to see someone understand exactly what I meant by framing THG as “a work blamed for its copycats”, and expand on it with examples that I didn’t know about.

It’s so rare to get an original comment on this post. Thank you so much.

magpie-trove

Thinking about how CS Lewis officially lost his faith, squelched in the mud and despair of the trenches in World War I, and wrote poetry railing against God—then made friends with Tolkien, who had lost quite literally all but one of his original friends just a hundred or so miles away in the same trenches. And how Lewis became The friend for Tolkien, which brought together a whole group of them. And how Tolkien brought his faith back to Lewis. And when the next dark night came, when the Germans were bombing them in their own homes this time, the BBC cast about for a voice to provide faith and hope to the nation, and found Lewis to do it. The man who’d been crushed by the last trenches and brought out of it by faith. And meanwhile Tolkien with the encouragement of his friend Lewis would be creating eucatastrophe in his epic that would settle for Tolkien and many others the gloom of despair into unlooked for hope.

theeverlastingmuse

The Joan of Arc sweater is complete! Made entirely out of secondhand acrylic yarn. Started April 22nd, finished July 11th.

awwyeah-rambles

look at this @thegreenleavesofspring!!! Joan of Arc knittted sweater. You'll probably find it just as cool as I did.

springsgreenleaves

That is incredible. And incredibly fast.

thatcrazystitchgirl

@that-catholic-shinobi

that-catholic-shinobi

PRETTY!

mapsontheweb

Parts of the country where self-service gas pumping is illegal.

unterwaesche

I didn’t know about New Jersey’s law so imagine my shock when a pump jockey sprinted at my car and kicked my door shut when I tried to get out to get gas. I rolled down my window and asked him “Is there a law against pumping your own gas or something?” And he looked at me like I’M nuts and just said “…yes?”

humanityinahandbag

okay but imagine this in the reverse. when i left new jersey as a driver for the first time and sat in my car for about ten minutes wondering where the attendant was until a nice man tapped on my window and just said the words “New Jersey?” and when I nodded he told me to get out of the car so he could teach me how to pump gas (and nicely didn’t laugh at me when I shot gas out of the nozzle across the side of my car).

anonymousalchemist

me and the boys (all from new jersey) went on a road trip out of state and had to get gas and it ended up being sort of a Group Puzzle for the gang as we huddled around the gas pump and nozzle and tank and whatnot. just picture five people standing around the gas tank opening like its part of an escape room. it was very silly.