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every day I use my self control to not say something so absolutely vulgar and explicit about that guy
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“Lolita isn’t a perverse young girl. She’s a poor child who has been debauched and whose senses never stir under the caresses of the foul Humbert Humbert, whom she asks once, ‘how long did [he] think we were going to live in stuffy cabins, doing filthy things together…?’ But to reply to your question: no, its success doesn’t annoy me, I am not like Conan Doyle, who out of snobbery or simple stupidity preferred to be known as the author of “The Great Boer War,” which he thought superior to his Sherlock Holmes. It is equally interesting to dwell, as journalists say, on the problem of the inept degradation that the character of the nymphet Lolita, whom I invented in 1955, has undergone in the mind of the broad public. Not only has the perversity of this poor child been grotesquely exaggerated, but her physical appearance, her age, everything has been transformed by the illustrations in foreign publications. Girls of eighteen or more, sidewalk kittens, cheap models, or simple long-legged criminals, are baptized “nymphets” or “Lolitas” in news stories in magazines in Italy, France, Germany, etc; and the covers of translations, Turkish or Arab, reach the height of ineptitude when they feature a young woman with opulent contours and a blonde mane imagined by boobies who have never read my book. In reality Lolita is a little girl of twelve, whereas Humbert Humbert is a mature man, and it’s the abyss between his age and that of the little girl that produces the vacuum, the vertigo, the seduction of mortal danger. Secondly, it’s the imagination of the sad satyr that makes a magic creature of this little American schoolgirl, as banal and normal in her way as the poet manqué Humbert is in his. Outside the maniacal gaze of Humbert there is no nymphet. Lolita the nymphet exists only through the obsession that destroys Humbert. Herein an essential aspect of a unique book that has been betrayed by a factitious popularity.”
— Vladimir Nabokov (tr. Brian Boyd), Apostrophes (1975)
Véra Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov’s editor and wife (among so many other things), mentioned in interviews with her biographer that he threw the Lolita manuscript into a fire several times (she pulled it out). Vladimir Nabokov spoke openly about his fear that the industry and an idiot public would pervert his book into a saucy sex fantasy instead of a study on predatory patriarchal horror. I hate how right he was.
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look at my factions bruh the commonwealth is doomed
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Disco Elysium inspired portrait
"I'm simply going to harvest your organs." - F A L L O U T ( 11.04.2024 )
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tumblr is such an echo chamber i forgot about people like this
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what’s your opinion on the jeremy allen white nebraska biopic news?
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Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon in SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995) dir. Ang Lee
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JAVERT’S DISGUISE(S)
(across multiple productions)
the plaid coat is actually criminal. NO one else in the show is dressed like that . He’s so bad at this
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Sole Survivor: My wife is dead my son is missing I've eaten nothing but dog food for 3 weeks and I'm dying of radiation poisoning
NexusMods 4K Improved MacCready:
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Do you actually care about transmascs or do you just like slapping top scars on fictional twinks and talking about boy pussy
Do you actually care about transfems or do you just like talking about girl cock and throwing around performative 'yass queen's and call people 'mommy' on their transition timelines
Do you actually care about nonbinary people or do you just like talking about 'they/them pussy' and drawing skinny white fem-leaning androgynous people and calling them 'nonbinary'
Before this gets much farther: this isn't a post aimed at cis folk only. being transgender does not prevent you from being transphobic.
people reblogging without this last addition are cowards btw
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Today is the only day you can Reblog this
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this patient on house md hallucinated meeting bruce springsteen. like many people on this site
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We've had strap ons since at least 400 BC, and people still have the nerve to go on gay hook up apps and ask "how can an FTM be a top?"
Sucks that this post got derailed with "lol large historical phallus statue" and that the point of it went over everyone's head (stop assuming that gay transgender men are bottoms, because of "biology", when people without natal phallus' have been fucking other people with strap-ons for over 2400 years, at minimum.)