#irrellephant

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Looks like Trumpism has undeniably come to Canada. What matters now is the Federal election.

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[charmingpplincardigans]

irrellephant replied to your photoset “Lose my ego? Guy, buddy, pal, I like myself like, five times a year....”

& same. honestly where's the book on losing the world and gaining ego

I KNOW. Life goals, tbh. And I am POSITIVE there’s a Greek myth that fits this exact description, but I’d have to check with @polytropia to be sure. 

[guildenstern]

irrellephant replied to your post: another thing which sounds fake happened today too...

I work in a toy store and the exact same thing happened to me yesterday!

being rude to employees & helpful strangers is the only way to defend christmas

[zielenna]

meme: A, C, E, S!

A: Your current OTP.hm, i don’t know! what does it mean, an OTP? is it a pair of characters whose dynamic i like as it is in the canon, or whose dynamic i would prefer to view as more central to their arcs / identities, or whose dynamic i do or would prefer to view as romantic? in general, my most intense reactions, and so - otps - are reserved for the mediapieces i consume to indulge, because i try to have a less emotional approach to the media i study. so i suppose the dynamic i care most about rn - as it is in canon, not as it might potentially be - is literally the friendship-not-friendship between the main two characters of the volleyball manga. i’ve been also thinking about the history boys recently, and various relations in which they are to each other. but it’s because of my curiosity (and need to project camb issues) rather than because of my gleeful enjoyment of canon.

C: A pairing you wish you shipped, but just can’t.hm, every more popular pairing in any fandom, because statistically (?) there has to be more good fics featuring it. it’s not that I can ship, as in, see in a romantic relationship, like - remus and sirius, or such, but i don’t have enough drive to look for fic, read it and enjoy it. i just don’t care? then again, it is often a case with me that if i do ship a popular pairing, i think most of the other people are doing it wrong, so there’s no abundance of fic that i would enjoy anyway.

E: Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what?i wouldn’t say crack is my strong suit, so there are two and a half ~funny posts in my hp tag, that’s it. the crackiest thing i’ve ever done on tumblr was analysing the video clip of ‘total eclipse of the heart’ with Jo.

S: What’s a headcanon you have?so we all know the skating anime, right? the main - well, one of them - character, victor, is supposed to be russian, but falls square into japanese archetype of the strange foreigner. and is not, er, particularly relatable as an eastern european. i watched this documentary on lgbt issues around sochi (god was it depressing) and the person most like victor the Russian was a chirpy american who spoke of his childhood romanticization of “snow and czars and princesses” and dropped gems such as “russia is like your grandma” [ie, US’s - i assume.] and out of my…discontent, i started to think of victor as a second or third generation immigrant, born and brought up in some bland western european country who did have an affair with a concept of russia, but in the end, is never at home anywhere. which would also give a reason for the apparent performative streak he has.

[charmingpplincardigans]

Happy birthday KL!! I hope you’ve had a fantastic day so far & will have a lovely evening too! 🎂 ✨

It has been a good day. Especially considering the avalanche of lovely that I’ve gotten from all points on the internet. Some days you just have to love everyone in the world. I think today is one of those days. ♥♥♥

[zielenna]

irrellephant said: TGF is… a lot. a literal lifetime. my main problem is I found most of the characters grow up to be incredibly unlikable which led to a depressing end for me. it’s pm 3 different books in 1 & by the 3rd has you feeling nostalgic for the beginning while also being cringey. but the worldbuilding/scene descriptions! you feel like you’re there. that was the one part I really loved. / TLF is very female-centric (so far) and I feel like the general aesthetic would fit some of your tags, haha. well, at least the way I’m visualizing it. very #girlhood & #it runs in the family

well, I don’t mind it being a lifetime. what you’re saying reminds me of Wuthering Heights in a way (if I can’t make it about Jane Eyre, I will take what I can get) - I would say there’s 2 different books there - just the order is reversed: the former features the more dislikeable characters, the latter more healthy & mild - well, but I always liked the former better.

haha, settings + descriptive language seem to be Tartt’s thing. 

[zielenna]

irrellephant said: looks like Jane Eyre is moving up my reading list then!(currently at the beginning of Tartt’s The Little Friend –very intriguing so far)

oh, I hope I didn’t spoil it for you? I think I was rather vague, but. well, I hope you’ll like it! it seems - useful? if less comfortable - to keep Wide Sargasso Sea in mind when reading. but I guess it only works when you read Jane Eyre, then WSS, and then reread JE. as I’m doing now. I - uh. can’t really rec WSW more unless I’ll be sure I’m not spoiling anything? anyways, I read it last summer as a part of my gothic lit reading bloc, so there are some quotes from it in the tag.

also, there’s a good movie adaptation, from 2011, that I’m going to rewatch - hopefully tonight? after I finish the book.

hmmm. I was rather reluctant to start any of Tartt’s books lately - it’s a commitment - & with quite divided opinions it’s hard to say whether I’ll like it. but, considering I haven’t any criticism of TLF which would make me think it’s not for me, I’ll go look around for it, save it for the times without lists.

[zielenna]

book meme: 8, 20, 35, 36, & 48

20. Best summer read?

summer, for me, is good for two types of a book: large old novels & accidental findings from libraries of the town stayed in at the moment. now, an example of an excellent large old novel would be Jane Eyre, which I am reading right now. as you. might have gathered. (well, it isn’t that large - 465 pages to Dickens’ 869 on my kindle. but I didn’t like Dickens, so whatever, we’re ignoring him.) Jane Eyre is – wow. it works as a large old novel, because it is, I’d say, a classic example of a bildungsroman (which most of large old novels seem to be? - so, I mean, it does the things you’d expect the large old novel to do). except Jane is more relatable than some protagonists of some other bildungsromans. & what I love - she is a girl, but she might be called byronic? she is emotional, she is violent, she is proud - I think what sums her up nicely is what she says when they’re dicussing her drawings - she draws wild, Romantic things - she says: “I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise” - she is an amazing force, bound to a meek position & held there by incomparable self-possession. wow. Jane. sorry - it’s a mess, I haven’t formed well-structured thoughts on it yet so it’s all over the place. just. JANE. what’s also fun in Jane Eyre, an excellent large old novel: gothic imagery! the scenery (the weather) is very like the genre. hinting at the supernatural to trick the reader! what a move. I can’t imagine reading it without knowing of Bertha - I don’t remember it for myself. what’s also fun - the romance part of it? I - well, I - yeah, I won’t even try - I just. the fortune-telling scene. I was laughing so much. sooo much.

now, an accidental finding from a library (‘14, Lądek Zdrój): Le Grand Meaulnes. I was reading the first diary of Simone de Beauvoir (also a decent book, I found some of my thoughts in there) - Memoir of a Dutiful Daughter  - & she mentioned the book. I remembered watching its movie adaptation, once - years ago - & when I found it in a library - of rather limited resources, as is usually the case in small towns - I thought, well, I must read it. it wasn’t life-changing, but it is rather enchanting. there’s a hopeless frienship & it always speaks to me. I liked it, because my reading it was a part of such a charming chain of coincidences. 

48. Where is your favorite place to read?

the university library, second floor, a carefully selected pouf removed from the rest - usually in front of the elevator. it’s much easier to focus with no laptop & the sight of other people work is motivating.

8, 35 & 36 already answered!