a singular heart and fatal dreams

camille ~ busy haunting your local museum and communing with the portraits ~ following from @suddenlydaggers PROBABLY DELETING THIS BLOG SOON

[valtsv]

i don't dress for men i dress for whoever finds my body rotting in the woods

[keri-russell]

Fleabag (2016-2019) written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

– 2019 Primetime Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

[girlrose]

im on tumblr bc im a romantic this energy doesnt exist on any other platform

[raptorific]

A lot of posts on here about how Media For Adults is so terrible... are really telling on themselves that they’ve never actually attempted to consume any adult media, and are basing their entire concept of what Media For Adults is like on the opening lines of the Family Guy theme song.

[raptorific]

“Adult TV shows are all about how you have to give in to hopelessness and cynicism” there have been 7000 shows that are just about groups of roommates having wacky adventures “adult TV shows are full of the problems we’re trying to escape from in real life” there’s like 30 Star Treks and nobody on a Star Trek has ever had a relatable problem

[raptorific]

Watch kids’ cartoons if you want! I love cartoons! But don’t try and make it a moral high ground, don’t take this weird Ayn Rand stance that the reason you like it is that it’s objectively better. Like “Ducktales” because it’s fun and it has a great voice cast (same reasons I like “Archer”), and like She-Ra because it’s got good visuals and compelling characters (same reasons I liked “Orphan Black”) but this attitude that like “I’m looking for GOOD shows and you just can’t find those for adults!” just advertises that you haven’t tried, and “I’m looking for POSITIVITY and ESCAPISM and you just can’t find that for adults” tells me that you haven’t tried AND that you’re a little bit of a weenie

[wildeoaths]

you can say the same about people who exclusively read YA and refuse to try branching out

[movingscastles-deactivated20210]

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY in COLETTE (2018) dir. Wash Westmoreland

[brandysmellville-deactivated202]

girls after saying something smart: So yeah

[wildeoaths]

we gotta downplay the smarts right after we whipped them out and its bc of Internalised Fear

[wildeoaths]

Calamity Jane (1953): it’s so gay it’s barely even subtext how did this film get made??

anyways everyone go watch this film it has its problematic aspects (as do all golden age Hollywood films) but it’s campy and fun and it’s a barely concealed lesbian cowboy western musical with Doris Day and she has a WHIP and a HORSE there is no hetero explanation for this film

[wildeoaths]

Cinema... it really makes you a different person huh

[sttyks]

[deadpersonas]

rb/reply with links to your profile on storygraph, i’d love to follow more people!

[wildeoaths]

my link is in this post!

[wildeoaths]

storygraph about me (in reading tastes)

storygraph’s options are bit limited, so this is my ‘about me’ page for now. the reviews section of my profile will probably give you a good idea of how I tend to engage with books. my storygraph (if you don’t know what it is check this post out)  /  my goodreads if you want to see my shelves.

i’ll continue to use both services for now until storygraph is more developed and has the functions i use GR for.  feel free to send me your profiles on either platform, I’m looking for people to follow!

disclaimer that my storygraph looks Like That because nothing I read before late 2017 is on there. I was bad about keeping a book log when I was younger and now I sometimes come across great books and go oh! I’ve read that before! but now I can’t remember anything about it except an impression. rip.

for the most part I read literary fiction and poetry, and I tend to pick medium-paced books. I tend to love anything featuring:

 - unreliable or reflective narrators

 - multiple-perspective narratives

 - retrospective novels

 - historical fiction

 - poetic prose

 - dreamlike and atmospheric moods

 - magical realism

 - mythmaking and the idea of creating narratives

 - themes of identity, settings where the culture features prominently

 - books featuring friendship and family tapestries

 - romantic tension

 - feminist fiction

 - the idea of decadence mixed with the decay of time or moral decay

 - journey novels, urban landscapes, urban ennui, outlaw runaways

 - characters that are a bit in their own world

[wildeoaths]

hi i would like to announce that i've been emotionally destroyed

[wildeoaths]

literally why do i keep choosing books that will break my damn heart??

[wildeoaths]

hi i would like to announce that i've been emotionally destroyed

[mossyshadows]

sometimes u read poetry fragments on here and it’s like oh that’s beautiful in a haunting way, how well written, how evocative, and then you click on the source and read the whole poem and sometimes the fragment embodies the essence of the poem but other times, reading the whole poem gives it a context that shifts your interpretation of it, makes the poem raw and energised and painful and so much more devastating, and you look back at the posted fragment and it’s like a warped shallow version all of a sudden, even if it’s wonderful in its own way, but there’s something there that feels almost vicious about how it’s been separated from its context, like it was viciously yanked out and left the poem missing a limb, left the real poem behind, and forced the fragment into something easy to digest, easy to relate to, something blandly palatable, some imposter because some poems are rooted in their context and to completely disrespect that, to remove the poet’s intention UGH

[wildeoaths]

poems about war, poems about conflict, political poems, poems about race, religious poems, poems by non-white writers, poems by lgbtq writers, poems about ab*se and other dark issues... just some of the common victims

[mossyshadows]

fragmentation of poetry

here, i want to argue a point. just follow on with this if you’re interested. 

1. first read this fragment of a poem. 

2. what are your thoughts on it? how does it make you feel? what do you think it’s about? do you relate to the emotions of it? 

3. think on those questions a second. 

3. yes i sound like an english lit teacher but bear with me please. 

4. then read the full poem (below the cut) 

Keep reading

[wildeoaths]

this this this! somewhere in my drafts there's a textpost that says struggling with my love for words vs my discomfort with them being taken out of context

i do think there's phrases that are beautiful on their own and can stand on their own, and often I come across writing that's too beautiful not to share. but to take a fragment is to create another layer or a new meaning entirely and I often wonder if we're doing the original creator justice (and then you start to get into whether the meaning of art is in the creation or the perception which is a whole other thing).

but if you think something needs the context, put it in under a cut. check out the writers you keep seeing and whose work you love! your life can only improve by having read them

[thealogie]

Sometimes reminiscing about pre-quarantine I feel like minor Russian royalty reminiscing about pre-communist revolution times. I’m like...ah yes I used to wear different beautiful outfits to work every day and shake the hands of many people without fear. I would simply leave my house and stroll into a bar for a last-minute cocktail with a friend. I would knock back oysters, sitting elbow-to-elbow with others at the counter. there were plays and concerts I never went to. The tzar invited us over often and had a GIANT chandelier

[wildeoaths]

Some Aspects of Life in Paris: Street Corner Viewed from Above, Pierre Bonnard, 1899.