some of the other books I've bound so far

GILMORE GIRLS 05.12 | Come Home

textual notes on antigone i found interesting

Still thinking about contrast between Jane Eyre and the second Mrs de Winter. I think Rebecca is clearly a retelling of Jane Eyre as psychological horror, the main characters all villainized (even the narrator) to a heightened degree. And I think the main thing that people forget about Jane Eyre is that it is not just a romance (though that is central to the story), but also a bildungsroman. We see Jane's unhappy childhood home and her persecutions at school, but also her friendships, her joy in art, her steady progress with her pupil, before Mr. Rochester ever steps onto the page. She is a whole and complete person, and can live (with some trials!) without him. Not so for Mrs. de Winter. Like Jane, she has no money and no connections, but we learn virtually nothing about her life before Maxim. Both she and Jane sketch, but it's a cruel joke for our narrator--she is lugging around her pencils and her art books, but the beauty of Manderley only oppresses her. The second Mrs. de Winter's only possession is raw nerves. All of this is to heighten the contrast with her and Rebecca. Bertha Mason is a physical reality but a specter in Jane Eyre, her personality barely more than a footnote. While Rebecca shapes the entire eponymous book. Mrs. de Winter is a void. The horror of being only a wife, only the mistress of the house, fills that space.

i've loved bbc gwaine for 13 slutty, slutty years but it wasn't until i watched eoin macken's depressing ass film (that he made with tom hopper and funded partly with donations from merlin fans 😭) called Leopard about generational trauma and gendered violence and uhhh severely messed up brothers with an oedipal complex? and a 5.7 imdb rating. the protagonist eoin plays is basically modern gwaine if he was appropriately half-dead from alcoholism and pub brawls and sick with worry over his brother percival i mean tom hopper. and the movie goes crazy with the symbolism. i'm talking the painting of ophelia floating on the water being a puzzle they work on together cutting to literal dead women floating in water leading up to the wildest mommy issues you've ever seen type symbolism. anyway it wasn't until THEN that i was like. oh i see. this guy eoin is not normal. about themes and narratives. and gwaine was his dream role of a lifetime like that's still his special guy so i just KNOW he overanalyzed him to hell and back he did all those microexpressions on purpose he took that shit SO seriously. and now i do too. now i, too, am. the gwaine overthinker.

blackout poetry

i know this is kind of vague but i want input solely for fanfiction lol

btw you can comment nuance if you think like only the headmaster lives there or only teachers who don't have families - you also don't need to adhere to canon which isn't super explicit in terms of teachers living quarters (although, there are night supervisors and mr keating is there really late fsr 🤷🏼‍♀️ )

also share w ur friends pls <3

i actually fucking love arthuriana guinevere bc whenever theres too much drama in camelot she goes “a-maying” and does fuckall in the woods for seven hours at a time

TAYLOR SWIFT

Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020)

The beauty of living in a walkable city is that when you feel sad you can just walk and walk and walk till you stumble upon a place that makes you feel better

"hello love, my invincible friend"

one of my favorite things to do in limited perspective is write sentences about the things someone doesn't do. he doesn't open his eyes. he doesn't reach out. i LOVE sentences like that. if it's describing the narrator, it's a reflection of their desires, something they're holding themselves back from. there's a tension between urge and action. it makes you ask why they wanted or felt compelled to do that, and also why they ultimately didn't. and if it's describing someone else, it tells you about the narrator's expectations. how they perceive that other person or their relationship. what they thought the other person was going to do, or thought the other person should have done, but failed to. negative action sentences are everything.

🤯 Snow angels ❄️