#elena ferrante

[reemillustrated]

snoopy reads my brilliant friend

[epifaniacintilante]

[quotespile]

As we talked I realized she wanted many things at the same time, and that kept her in a permanent state of dissatisfaction.

Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

[ohmovie]

"She was afraid of losing Enzo's kindness, the attention he gave to all her anxieties, the tranquil strength he emanated and thanks to which he had saved her […].

Raffaella "Lila" Cerullo & Enzo Scanno My Brilliant Friend│L'amica geniale (2018 – 2024)

[themonstrousother]

*goes up to a lesbian couple* okay which one of you compels everyone who encounters you to be dragged into your orbit, distracting them with your radiance from how your own brilliance threatens to consume you whole, from what ugliness lies beneath that beauty, and which one of is both in awe of and envious of the other, forever stuck in a cycle of insecurity and self-hatred, feeling as if anything you can do will only ever fall short of them, leading you to push them away only to return because if they’re the flame, you’re the moth, and you’ll burn together, and in their absence you’ll be left aimlessly fluttering

[learnelle]

My friends and I organised a reading getaway to Normandie! We spent our days indulging in Elena Ferrante’s writing and lots of coffee ☕️ 

[thirdity]

Suffering modifies the image of time. The eruption of suffering cancels out linear time, breaks it, makes it into whirling squiggles. The night of time crouches at the edges of the dawn of today and tomorrow. Suffering casts us down among our single-celled ancestors, among the quarrelsome or terrorized muttering in the caves, among the female divinities expelled into the darkness of the earth, even as we keep ourselves anchored — let’s say — to the computer we’re writing on. Strong feelings are like that: they explode chronology. An emotion is a somersault, a tumble, a dizzying pirouette.

Elena Ferrante, Frantumaglia

[astrologywithclara]

𓆰 Astrology for Writers | Part 4

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If your Mercury sits in the 5th house, or it is conjunct your Sun, or Leo rules your 3rd, you probably write like you’re telling a story to a friend across the table. There’s drama, humour, exaggeration, personality. Even normal events somehow become cinematic. Dialogue might come ridiculously easy to you. You don’t just narrate things. You perform them.

Genres: screenwriting, theatre, YA, character-driven fiction

Examples: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag" (2016); Diablo Cody, "Juno" (2007)

If your Mercury is in Pisces or it is conjunct Neptune in water houses (4th house, 8th, 12th house), you probably start writing without fully knowing what you’re trying to say. It’s more vibes than outline. Images, fragments, half-memories. Sometimes you reread your own stuff and think, "Wait… did I write this?". It feels channelled more than constructed. You’re not always logical, but you’re emotionally devastating.

Genres: poetic prose, stream-of-consciousness, surreal or dreamlike fiction

Examples: Clarice Lispector, "The Hour of the Star" (1977); Sofia Coppola, "Lost in Translation" (2003, screenplay)

If your Mercury conjuncts your Mars, or your Mars sits in your 3rd house, or your Mercury makes hard aspects to your Mars, writing might feel urgent and physical for you. You type fast. Delete fast. Argue on the page. There’s heat in your voice. You’re not scared of confrontation or sharp opinions. Your words cut when they need to. Softness isn’t your default. Honesty is.

Genres: essays, political writing, satire, polemic, social commentary

Examples: Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1971); Nora Ephron, "Heartburn" (1983)

If your 3rd house ruler falls into the 4th house, or your Moon tightly aspects Mercury, or Cancer/IC energy dominates your chart, you probably keep returning to the past when you write. Childhood, family, old homes, nostalgia. Memory is your raw material. You don’t invent worlds as much as reconstruct the one you lived through. Your writing feels intimate without even trying to be.

Genres: memoir, family sagas, autofiction, generational stories

Examples: Elena Ferrante, "My Brilliant Friend" (2011); James Baldwin, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953)

If your Mercury is in Aquarius or placed in the 11th house, or trines Uranus, you probably write like you’re slightly outside of society observing everyone. There’s this detached, analytical lens. You notice systems, patterns, and hypocrisies. Even when you write fiction, it ends up being social commentary somehow. You’re not sentimental. You’re perceptive.

Genres: dystopia, speculative fiction, social satire, sci-fi

Examples: Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid’s Tale "(1985); George Saunders, "Lincoln in the Bardo" (2017)

If Saturn or Pluto sits in your 5th house, or your Mercury forms tight aspects to both, creativity may feel heavy but compulsive. Writing isn’t cute or “fun.” It’s something you have to do or you feel restless. You might disappear for hours obsessing over one paragraph. It can feel lonely, intense, even draining. But the depth you reach is something lighter placements can’t fake.

Genres: dark literary fiction, tragedy, psychological drama, long-form novels

Examples: Cormac McCarthy, "The Road" (2006); Sylvia Plath, "Ariel" (1965); Donna Tartt, "The Secret History" (1992)

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