#lliterature

[thewaspofthepalisades]

afraid of heights - boygenuis

[adaptationsdaily]

The only good thing about being wounded in the buttocks is the ice cream. They gave me all the ice cream I could eat, and guess what? A good friend of mine was in the bed right next door.

— FORREST GUMP (1994) dir. Robert Zemeckis

[funeral]

Who was my other self? Though we had split one personality between us, I was the majority shareholder. I went to school, made friends, gained experience, developing my part of the personality, while she remained morally and emotionally a child, functioning on instinct rather than on intelligence.

Sylvia Fraser, My Father’s House

[thewritersspotblog]

Ancient Women Writing: Japan

Japan’s literary tradition has long been an important aspect of world literature from ancient myths and folktales that still inform modern anime and manga to popularizing poetry forms like haiku and tanka. Japan even contributed what is generally thoughts of as the world’s first novel. The Tale of Genji was written by lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the 11th Century, some 500 years before the…

Ancient Women Writing: Japan

[whosafraidofvirginiawoolf]

But there was something more miserable still—it was the clutch of solitude at her heart the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the heedless current of the years. That was the feeling which possessed her now—the feeling of being something rootless and ephemeral, mere spin-drift of the whirling surface of existence, without anything to which the poor little tentacles of self could cling before the awful flood submerged them. And as she looked backs she saw that there had never been a time when she had had any real relation to life.

— The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

[aneptune]

ainda estou no lugar que me deixou

na esperança de um dia você voltar

retomando nossos planos.

me fala morena, que é comigo que ce vai casar

me faz acreditar que pra tudo tem um jeito

que anda sentindo falta do meu beijo.

nas noites me deito lembrando do teu cheiro

do eu te amo, do abraço e do aconchego.

mesmo que você tenha ido

eu

ainda

permaneço.

[inspiredbyabook]

@fictiondaily event2: Pride

↪ aro/ace spectrum: dayo from raybearer by jordan ifueko

[labcoated-lunacy]

gay classics characters rated based on how likely i’d be to enter a lavender marriage with them:

- nick carroway: seems ok. needs to calm down a little and get better taste in men. 5/10

- horatio: oh fuck yes, we would be the best nerdy “couple” also needs better taste in men but as a hamlet kinnie I can’t complain 10/10

- victor frankenstein (yeah he counts he’s gay for clerval): ehhhh. as an aspiring mad scientist myself, I appreciate his artistry, but not his methods 4/10

- mercutio: I adore him, but nobody’s allowed to beat me at my pun game, so points off for that 7/10

- dr. henry jekyll (yes I do think he’s gay how else do you explain his thing with utterson and hyde being a twink): aha, mad science done right! identity/morality crisis buddies! 8/10

- basil hallward: this is the purest, most angelic being to ever grace the page and I would willingly throw myself or anyone else into fire for his honor. 100000/10