𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆

like a river runs dry and leaves its scars behind, i’ll be by your side. // nixe. they/them. 32, scary.

[javert]

tumblr users yearn for the much-maligned genre of "iowa writers workshop divorce litfic"

[annabellioncourt]

Hello from your local graveyard lurker and 19th century tourist. Quiz time!

which one of these 19th century men, in a fit of greif and possibly alcohol, broke open the crypt and coffin of their wife who died young of something that you can probably buy a cure to at CVS today?

Edgar Allan Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman

Henry David Thoreau

Charles Brockden Brown

Thomas Read

idk/you told me this irl already. twice.

Remaining time: 1 day 10 hours

[mordredsheart]

really enjoying how effectively jane austen has captured the sensation of hating a bitch for no good reason in the emma woodhouse and jane fairfax dynamic

[mordredsheart]

they were playing paramore at work and now i’m thinking about a six the musical sequel in which elizabeth is inspired by hayley williams

[mordredsheart]

this was kind of said facetiously but the more i think of it the more i like it, paramore was so unique for its frontwoman in the sausage fest that was the scene and that is a really good analogy for elizabeth’s role in history, and also it’s a pretty funny genre connection given that one of boleyn’s inspirations in six is avril lavigne

[mordredsheart]

help some kelly clarkson came on and i got incredibly emotional thinking about a “because of you” type song as an elizabeth and mary duet about their mothers. or. maybe about each other.

[mordredsheart]

they were playing paramore at work and now i’m thinking about a six the musical sequel in which elizabeth is inspired by hayley williams

[mordredsheart]

this was kind of said facetiously but the more i think of it the more i like it, paramore was so unique for its frontwoman in the sausage fest that was the scene and that is a really good analogy for elizabeth’s role in history, and also it’s a pretty funny genre connection given that one of boleyn’s inspirations in six is avril lavigne

[mordredsheart]

they were playing paramore at work and now i’m thinking about a six the musical sequel in which elizabeth is inspired by hayley williams

[mordredsheart]

new-to-me movies, 2026: the odyssey (2026), dir. christopher nolan

why can’t gods speak in ways we understand? - who doesn’t understand thunder, fire?

[mordredsheart]

also. i was keeping this to myself till i actually saw the movie but i privately suspected emily wilson’s review was nonsense (on the grounds of being a hilariously reductive take on adaptation, if nothing else) and WHAT DO YOU KNOW, it was. this substack essay by cole haddon says it better than me:

Except Nolan doesn’t misunderstand what he’s doing, as I hope I’ve made clear by now. He’s in complete command of his interpretation. Wilson is just disinterested in asking any questions about what his interpretation means because she believes his work is terrible, boring, shallow, etcetera, preferring instead to try to score points that repeatedly reek of the bitterness of a professional rival when the painful reality she doesn’t seem to grasp is that cinema doesn’t care about her work as a classicist. Her translation of The Odyssey was a springboard for someone else’s imagination to leap from, to say something new and personal to him and deeply relevant to the world we live in today. Nolan doesn’t give a shit about the literalness of what’s in Homer’s text. He cares about how he can use it to tell a story about the collapse of our own civilization – not because of war, as Wilson seems to misinterpret the film (and which she says he has nothing “convincing” to say about). But because of the toxic melange of masculinity, white supremacy, and capitalism that explains colonialism and has resulted in mass death and economic and climatological devastation. It’s the apocalyptic theme that explains almost the entirety of Nolan’s apparently “superficial” filmography – which is why his take on The Odyssey is also so blatantly apocalyptic.

[mordredsheart]

shocker of the year the odyssey was REALLY FUCKING GOOD i knew nolan wouldn’t let my apologetics for him be in vain!!!

[mordredsheart]

okay. third row seat for imax 70mm odyssey. i hope it blows my tits clean off

[mordredsheart]

the last they on earth

[ladyhawke]

a man more whipped i have never seen

[tinytuunbaq]

elizabeth gaskell has written what i think is the best representation of british culture: the bus driver thought i wanted to get on so they pulled over JUST FOR ME and i can’t possibly explain that it was a mistake so you know what? i’ll just get on this bus that’s leaving this city entirely and heading for the countryside, where i had zero intention of going today, for the sole purpose of avoiding confrontation

(yes i know he did just get pied off but still)

[softest-punk]

Best Jane Austen Love Interest

Mr. Darcy

Mr. Bingley

Captain Wentworth

Colonel Brandon

Edward Ferrars

Henry Tilney

Mr. Knightley

Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours

[mordredsheart]

can i interest the hadestown fandom in watching penny dreadful on the basis of reeve carney as dorian gray and the protagonist being a beautiful haunted woman continually descending into hell

[oldmanpusspuss]

I can't watch a television show until a demon possesses me and compels me to do it

[guiltfactory]

your boyfriend isn't thematically significant