#clearly
i am not immune to [character standing in front of wings imagery so it lines up like they have wings] [character standing in front of halo imagery so it lines up like they have a halo]
there is a scene in the final ep of The Crown S04 where they stage Lady Diana in front of some mounted antlers, and she PERFECTLY lines up with them. Throughout S04 she’s compared to a helpless hunted stag, which was successfully shot [eaten] and its head added to the family’s collection, implying Diana is a helpless animal to be pursued and collected. So this dramatic moment in S04 is really chilling and so evocative~
OHMYGOODNESSYESJONATHAN SAFRAN FOER | NEW NOVEL | 2014
Simon Prosser, Publishing Director of Hamish Hamilton, has acquired British and Commonwealth rights for Jonathan Safran Foer’s third novel, Escape from Children’s Hospital, the follow-up to the internationally-acclaimed, bestselling Everything is IlluminatedandExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
A fictionalised account of a life-changing event that happened to the author as a nine-year-old - an explosion in a summer camp science class, which left his best friend without skin on his face or hands, and whose brunt the author avoided by inches and for no good reason - this is a story about the shared trauma of childhood, the potential destructiveness of storytelling, and the redemptive power of friendship. Weaving precariously between non-fiction and fiction, and existing at the intersection of different styles (suspense, memoir, imaginative storytelling), the book moves out from that moment in 1985 to the repercussions on the ever-expanding circle of those affected by it.
Explaining his ambition for the book, Jonathan Safran Foer writes: ‘What actually happened that day? What is a novel capable of? These are the two questions I have been living inside of, and I hope they will answer one another: my novel is what happened that day; and a truthful, experiential telling of that day is what the novel is capable of.’
Simon Prosser comments: ‘I couldn’t be more excited about a novel or about a writer - and I am thrilled that we are the first of Jonathan’s publishers to acquire this book.’
Picture by Sonja Kresowaty in homage toGray318
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D&D: Yeah, you know, the way Dany reacts to her husband killing her abusive brother who literally just threatened to cut out her unborn child from her womb was really cold and was totally foreshadowing of her going mad later on.
Tyrion: *literally murders his own father with a crossbow after first murdering his ex lover after finding her in his father’s bed*
D&D: Yeah, Tyrion’s a pacifist.
I don’t know about you but one of the best opening credits for me!
Okay listen, I love fall and Halloween and Samhain, but it frustrates me that I still tend to move on from it more quickly than I think I should.
Is anyone else with me? Like, I start fall decorating/excitment mid-August and then switch to Halloween/Samhain mid-September bc I am so damn excited for it. But I have been finding that I lose the excitement before the end of October even (I know! The sacrilege!). My mind already starts wandering to Yule/Christmas and planning for that and excitement for the winter season.
So I am torn on how to change this for next year. Do I limit myself and not let myself put up decorations and do Halloween stuff before October next year? Have I been starting too early and that is what is making me lose interest by October 31st?
Or do I just need to accept that it is the natural way of things, we typically start looking forward to the next season/celebration while the current one is going on? Or is that just me :(
All I know is that the pull has been so strong lately to look at winter aesthetic pictures online, plan my Christmas cards and do some holiday shopping (just a little!!!!) and plan some homemade Yule decorations…..*big sigh*
I don’t know why I tend to spend more time looking forward to and anticipating the next season, than I do appreciating the current one. Thoughts?
just got my wisdom teeth out. rather than saying anything crazy or embarrassing tho, apparently I woke up and immediately started telling the nurse about Star Trek.
what’s the funniest show that could be pitched to someone tumblr style like “omg watch this there is a gay character and autistic representation!”
working on deconstructing all the lessons put into my head by those…I don’t know what they’re called but you know the people that sell self-help books convincing you that you can win capitalism? the writing version of those
Theres a whole genus of bloggers that seem to make their way in the world writing articles that are like “The Harsh Truth About Publishing a Novel” and it’s all stuff like “No one likes your book as much as you do” and “Everyone will hate your book if it has worldbuilding” and “you MUST start the plot in the VERY FIRST SENTENCE NO EXCEPTIONS” and “if you use a single adverb, your editor will break your wrists with a crowbar”
There are a thousand books and articles about writing that are entirely based on the following premises:
- you, as a writer, are competing with tv, movies, and social media for the increasingly short attention spans of your readers, therefore, you have to make your book as fast-paced and immediately attention-grabbing as possible
- Not only are the guidelines of writing a good screenplay applicable to writing a novel, the ideal way to write a novel is “exactly the way you would a screenplay.”
Also,so many books and blog posts about writing and publishing fiction outright say “what worked in storytelling 300 or 200 or even 100 years ago doesn’t work anymore.”
Neat. I guess that’s why “classic” books are never read anymore, and no one has any interest in the stories of the past.
It would explain why no one ever reads or watches Shakespeare anymore. And why Greek mythology and fairy tales have disappeared from the average person’s consciousness. Yup, makes sense, seeing how no one today cares about Sherlock Holmes or Frankenstein.
It’s not like the tropes and conventions of the stories we tell today are directly based on those of stories hundreds of years ago. Imagine if half of our movies, books and shows were adaptations of stories first told hundreds of years ago! That’s clearly impossible.
Also, no one understood anything about storytelling up until a few decades ago, when some editors at the big five publishing houses got together and realized we’ve been doing it all wrong for all of human history.
Two men dancing, Harlem, 1920s.
According to George Chauncey’s eponymous Gay New York, the Harlem Renaissance of the ’20s provided an opportunity for gay men to create their own social and cultural spaces within the burgeoning nightlife in the neighborhood.
ohh this is lovely
i mean i like the subject matter, but also, it’s just an objectively beautiful photograph. the composition, the gentle sense of motion, the smile on the dancer’s face, his partner’s face in shadow, the central focus being on their clasped hands… honestly one of the best photographs i’ve seen.
Isaac JulienPas de Deux with Roses ( Looking for Langston Vintage Series) (x) and here (x) (because links never last)
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ehehehehe nice
i present to u: tipsy me trying to be cute
do you ever feel like you love a character more than their own writers do
