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sideblog for writing inspo shhhh olivia, 23

[huariqueje]

Golden Disarray   - Keita Morimoto , 2023 .

Japanese , b. 1990 -

Acrylic on panel , 27.3 x 22 in.

[pmamtraveller]

Kyle Thompson - Swamp

[theloudestvoice]

Musidora photo by G. L. Manuel Frères

via Performing Arts / Artes Escénicas

[weepingwidar]

Jannik Hösel (German, 1998) - Semele (2025)

[classic-art]

Wild Asters

Dennis Miller Bunker, 1889

[snailhearted]

things from dreams & childhood

[rotinmycore]

come home to me.

[eightfish]

Postman and a cow

[unorcadox]

(You’ve chosen to not remember this part.)

[thestuffedalligator]

Cooking horror game where you play as a cook working in the galley of a ship in the 1800s. There’s some kind of supernatural nautical horror story going on in the background but you barely notice this because you spend all day cooking in the galley.

[glassrooibos]

I could not stop thinking about this. The only cue you get is the ingredients keep getting more and more unnerving, and like the prep you have to do to make the food gets more and more elaborate??? GIMEE THE GAME.

[spaceforrent]

Historic Sweetheart Restaurant 35mm January 2019

[ymutate]

Joseph Stoitzner (1884-1951)

Early Spring 1917

[thunderstruck9]

Josef Stoitzner (Austrian, 1884-1951), Vorfrühling [Early Spring], 1917. Mixed media on cardboard, 58 x 58 cm.

[forgivenessflowers]

[gepkorte-deactivated20151003]

Andrew Wyeth: Pine Baron (1976)

[requiem-on-water]

Benjamin Lehman

[feypact]

public libraries in the usa offering free digital library cards to people not in their areas (as of october 2023):

brooklyn (13-21yo us residents)

seattle (13-26yo us residents)

boston (13-26yo us residents)

los angeles (13-18yo california residents)

san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)

these cards (part of the books unbanned initiative) get you access to each library's complete libby/overdrive collection (unless otherwise mentioned), no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.

ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!

i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!

i use library extension (firefox/safari/chrome compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.

spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you're already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.

[soap-stones]

also, anon, here are my recommendations for someone who’s just starting to read old/middle english literature (in translation). texts are on here either because they’re ~seminal~ or because they’re very fun. most of them are both :-)

old english poetry

short: the word exchange (OE riddles from the exeter book)

mid-length: “the ruin” / “the wanderer” / “the seafarer” / “soul and body” / “the grave” / “the dream of the rood” (trans. williamson)

long: beowulf (trans. heaney)

middle english poetry

the lais of marie de france (trans. hanning & ferrante. technically these were in middle french but marie lived in england so it counts, okay!!! if you’re gonna just read one, choose bisclavret.)

sir gawain and the green knight (trans. armitage)

chaucer, the canterbury tales (any translation tbh, but if you want a modern interpretation, i recommend agbabi’s incredible telling tales)

hoccleve, the complaint (there are no good translations of this. here is a sort of infuriating verse translation and a perfectly serviceable prose one).

the revelations of julian of norwich (trans. windeatt)

mandeville’s travels (trans. bale)

the book of margery kempe (trans. bale)

there are so many other incredible texts i could suggest, but unfortunately most of them haven’t been published in modern english. as always, ymmv! these are just my personal favorites.