#classic texts

[2x55]

[ Text ID: 𝑇𝘩𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑖𝑔𝘩𝑡, 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑔𝘩𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑒, 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝘩𝑜𝑙𝑦 ]

𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝑀𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑝𝘩𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝐺𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑐 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝑛𝑛 𝑅𝑎𝑑𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒, 𝑤𝘩𝑖𝑐𝘩 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝟾 𝑀𝑎𝑦 𝟷𝟽𝟿𝟺 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐺. 𝐺. 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐽. 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛.

[home-for-artists]

Let Silence with her long pale hands ravish the violin.

-one of the most erotic late Victorian lesbian poets, Rachel Annand Taylor.

[2x55]

[home-for-artists]

Just reading Jane Eyre for my syllabus and I have to say how having heard of it before, I had not really thought I would be able to find the will to read on the story of a little girl who was kept in such awful circumstances, ill-treated by everyone around her, (I in fact had tried it before but given up early on) but now I'm only on chapter four ig and Jane speaks up her mind against Mrs Reed, all about how she'll never forget how she's been treated in Gateshead and the distress in her words, and how the tumultuous state of her mind is trinkling right into Brontë's words...that's language at its rawest form, completely stripped-down. I'm hooked.

[2x55]

“𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒.”

—𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘣𝘣𝘦𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯; 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥, 𝟤𝟢𝘵𝘩 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝟣𝟪𝟣𝟩.

[squishy-min-mochi]

One of the versions of Little Red Riding-Hood is written by a guy named Egbert and when I tell you that little Homsetuck guy BOLTED to the front of my brain for the rest of class

[fairhairedkings]

going through old school notebooks to see if i need to save any of them and finding some super helpful notes that i made in the margins. like “elysium is bro heaven”

[fairhairedkings]

if only i had watched black sails last year. i could have tried to convince my prof to let me write an essay about intertextuality in black sails/treasure island and in classical texts like the aeneid/metamorphoses. (translating ovid is so much nicer than translating virgil. but that is unrelated.) 10 pages in, it would turn into me going “everything is fanfiction, so get over yourself, DIANA GABALDON.”

looking back, it’s probably a good thing i did not attempt this.