GYRING, SPIRING TO AND FRO

[pusheen]

[victoriousvocabulary]

SMOULDER [aka SMOLDER]

[verb]

1. to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.

2. to exist or continue in a suppressed state or without outward demonstration.

3. to display repressed feelings, as of indignation, anger, or the like.

[noun]

4. dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.

5. a smoldering fire.

Etymology: from Middle English smolder, “smoky vapour”, dissimilated variant of smorther, “smother".

[Loish - Smoulder]

[greelin]

raccoons and their… little hands

[taradiddled]

[underthefoldingbranches]

oh, so that’s why

[bookaddictiion]

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (via bookaddictiion)

[zacharylevisource]

While Zac does not appear in this new trailer, we now have a release date!  All six episodes will drop on November 3rd on Netflix.  

The series is based on the historical fiction book of the same name by ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ author, Margaret Atwood.  The story of Alias Grace follows Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott (Kerr Logan), was convicted of the brutal murders of their employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin), in 1843. James was hanged while Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment. Grace became one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of 1840s Canada for her supposed role in the sensational double murder, and was eventually exonerated after 30 years in jail. Her conviction was controversial, and sparked much debate about whether Grace was actually involved in the murder, or merely an unwitting accessory. 

Zac plays Jeremiah Pontelli, a traveling salesman and magician that comes in and out of Grace’s life.

[luthienne]

…but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

Margaret Atwood, from Alias Grace (via luthienne)

[cinequeer]

Gone mad is what they say, and sometimes Run mad, as if mad is a direction, like west; as if mad is a different house you could step into, or a separate country entirely. But when you go mad you don’t go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in.

Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (via stevemcqueened)

[victoriousvocabulary]

SPINNEY

[noun]

a small wood or thicket; copse.

Etymology: from Old French espinei, from espine - thorn, from Latin spīna.

[Simon Haiduk & David Heskin]

[tilliewalden]

A little comic I made for Art Review. 

[victoriousvocabulary]

VIZARD

[noun]

a mask or visor; a disguise.

Etymology: alteration of Middle English viser ”mask, visor”.

[Marcela Bolivar - Bal Masque]

[iceafterdeath]

“They should have never given us uniforms if they didn’t want us to be an army.”

[tomorrowandbeyond]

[horroredits]

The Girl With All The Gifts (2016) | dir. Colm McCarthy

It’s not over. It’s just not yours any more.

[victoriousvocabulary]

SELENIC

[adjective]

1. of, relating to, or like the moon.

2. of, relating to, or containing selenium —used especially of compounds in which this element has a higher valence than in selenious compounds.

Etymology: ultimately from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē), “the moon; the Moon Goddess”.

[Jodie Muir - September]

[victoriousvocabulary]

MARIGENOUS 

[adjective] 

produced in or by the sea. 

Etymology: from Latin mare, “the sea” +‎ -genous, “producing or yielding”.

[Janaina Medeiros - The Mermaids And The Pirate Treasure]

[jayemichaela]

Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element. Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing. Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing.

Ursula K. Le Guin (via jayemichaela)