Jan 2, 2025
“Welcome to the revolution, Violet.”
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“Welcome to the revolution, Violet.”
Queer intersectionalities must push forward to a more inclusive future, while acknowledging the ways in which whiteness has historically disfigured this objective. There is no silver lining to Baum's prejudices unless his failings can help modern queer readers of varying backgrounds and identities to more energetically pursue an intersectional and ethical future inclusive of all.
Tison Pugh, "Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales & Other Astounding Adventures in Sex & Gender"
Final Line(s) Prompt
So go ahead, flip the pages back to the start of the book. I assure you it will not change anything, hero. Fate is sealed.
You lost.
- Mod Kat @hacked_prompts on Instagram
Bonus Ending: Fake out the reader with blank pages or invisible ink or hiding the ending near the start of the book where flipping back actually reveals the ending
“All I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” -J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Original image taken April 2018 in western Oregon somewhere.
[ID: A picture of trees and power lines, the edge of the road can be seen in the lower left corner. The sky is blue and there are fluffy white clouds in the background. Over the image is purple text that reads: “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” The whole text has strikethrough marks.]
Favorite Literature and Final Lines, 2/?
FINAL LINE
"She didn't see me."
For never was there a tale of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Prince Escalus, Romeo and Juliet (5.3.309-310)
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. 1925.
Well, we've had a fine active day. I never dine so heartily, I never sleep so soundly as when I have, during the day, sufficiently befouled myself with what our fools call crimes.
Marquis de Sade, "Philosophy in the Bedroom" (trans. Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse)