#leftenantjopson

[nedlittle]

So I saw hamlet at the national theatre (London) in November, and I can’t stop thinking about how Horatio was played by a woman, so Hamlet and Laeretes unintentionally ended up with crazy homoerotic tension that rivaled Hamlet and Horatio

call me the king of infinite space the way i read the words "horatio was played by a woman" and immediately felt all other thoughts and ideas exit my head at the speed of light. you could knock on my empty skull and the sound would echo for centuries

[sea-changed]

We need to make 2026 the year of talking about it (Nabakov and exile literature, because while I haven’t read speak memory, I read pale fire a few months ago and it feels like that aspect of it gets overlooked a lot in discussions of the book)

Truly my Nabokov era earlier this year was one of my best reading eras recently, hugely on board with 2026 bringing more. Highly recommend Speak, Memory too, I need to maybe pull together a list of favorites of the year but that mostly definitely is on it.

[bakugeorge]

Is there any chance you could elaborate on the PhD lit review where you talk about the dear Vera letters? Because I am highly intrigued

HI hello i'm sorry to leave this unanswered for so long!

i wrote the lit review in 2021 and don't have a firm grasp on a lot of the subject matter in there anymore; i dropped out of my phd the following year. i will however just paste the relevant paragraph below!

i was more broadly intending to study religion in the context of australian soldiers of the first world war. an eminent australian historian bill gammage once wrote in his seminal text on anzac, "the average australian soldier was not religious" (despite more than 98% of them being some form of christian because come on, bill, it was 1914) and i wanted to explore and contend this. i looked a little at the pacific and band of brothers as reference points for how religion is handled in a military context from an american point of view, because it is entirely different to the australian context (we aussies for the most part despire evangelicals, wowserism, public displays of faith, and so on, which bleeds into a secular historiography entirely reluctant to take on the topic of christianity lest they be ridiculed by broader academic circles and the public at large). this is where this short discussion of vera as leckie's confessional - something i still stand by! - fit in. i can't really say more than this as a) i don't recall a lot of it off the top of my head and b) i don't want to put all my thesis thoughts out here on tumblr lol. but i hope this is somewhat interesting and what you were after!

[radetzkymarch]

Blease tell me your url is a reference to the book because it slaps so hard

(The piece of music is good too though)

It is!

[kafkaesquegf]

Finished catch 22 a few weeks ago and it made me insane so I’m so excited for you to also go insane over it. Also shoutout to the person with the url of “whatsgoodforthesyndicate” hanging out in the notes of a mash post, because that person has good taste in war media

IT'S SO GOOD i somehow never clocked that this book was a comedy in all the many times i had heard of it so i was quite pleasantly surprised!!!

[focsle]

Harry Lloyd as Lawrence is absolutely excellent

Harry Lloyd in Great Expectations has such Lawrence energy…

[cosmicwar]

Thinking about it again (eyes getting pecked out by ravens and the very sexy possibility of bran/jon being Odin parallels)

yes god i want jon to lose an eye so bad, doesn’t seem that far fetched considering how much grrm likes to injure him (and there are enough seeds of foreshadowing for it). also i’m so excited for jon and bran’s paths to cross, the weirwoods clearly have some connection to the night’s watch/the wall (ie the black gate), sam and bran have already met, bran has already met two undead/should-be-dead watchmen, and of course there’s the whole raven/crow thing. i can’t wait for bran and jon’s storylines to connect fully, especially considering how jon has all these parellels with maester aemon, and we have this line from sam’s eulogy:

“He could have been a king himself, but when they offered him the crown he told them they should give it to his younger brother. How many men would do that?"

anyway i’ve rambled so far off from the topic of your ask but anyway i love bran and jon thematic connections and i feel like they don’t get mentioned enough

[bl00dline]

my wonderful friends @leftenantjopson and @alfred-st-john tagged me to post 10 pictures that describe myself, but said pictures must already be in my camera roll. thanks for the tag 💗💗💗

my camera roll is an interesting place

I’ll tag @cherubina, @johnsonshildy, @thehighsign, @lickmyleeches, @franken-girlfriend, and @drunk-poets-society 💗💗💗