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Aegon, Jacaerys and Lucerys (surprisingly) getting along
I am not ready to lose this tomorrow, Lord help me
I love that this worked
This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but itās also kind of an amazing two-line poem? āHis Wife has filled his house with chintzā is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and āchintzā is a perfect word choice hereāsonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then āto keep it real I fuck him on the floorā collapses that whole mood with short percussive soundsābut itās still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8
I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct
I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.
This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.
As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: āfuck him on the floor.ā The use of āchintzā is indeed great word choice.
Because Iām insane, decided to scan the poem:
Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.
There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of ākeep it realā juxtaposed with āchintz.ā It causes me to interpret the āchintzā more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of āfuck,ā which is a contrast with āchintzā but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where āchintzā is flimsy and inanimate.
And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is āfilled with chintzāāsomething that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with ākeep it real.ā
The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wifeās marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something āreal.ā Thatās a story, and itās just two lines.
This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, yāall. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.
From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.
Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something
Ah dang to go further; the floor is framed as a refuge. As if there is literally no other space in this house that hasn't been populated by his wife with flimsy inanimate fakery. There is no space for this man in this house save for the floor. There is no space for him on the sofa, oon the counter tops, and most notably, no space for him in the marital bed.
Iād also like to point out the use of the word āhas.ā The wife has filled the house with chintz. She isnāt filling the house with chintz. She doesnāt fill the house with chintz. She has filled the house with chintz. Use of the past-tense makes the wife a subtly removed element in the story, someone whose presence we see in the environment, but who is blissfully distant during the actors throes of passion. There is an element of physical as well as emotional separation from the wife that is catalyzed by being fucked on the floor. Use of the past tense is an end to the wife presence in the actors life, a carnal catharsis amid cold fragility and emotional distance.
This is my new favourite post in the world
everyone cheer for the one (1) time tumblr had reading comprehension
you can absolutely ignore this but do you have any merlin fix its or series rewrites to recommend
hi! idk if you would like it canon compliant or going off the rails but i have some i love for you. some are time travel, some are related to specific episodes and some are wholly for the entire show. i noticed you said merlin fix it, so i'm letting you know, all of them are merthur heavy so be aware of that before jumping in
The Book of Merthur by horsecrazy Before the Sun Breaks Another Day by yaccordingtomel, adelagia Immortal and Imperishable byĀ prettysailorsoldier Visited Upon The Son by fiercynn All lives are (love)stories by amithia Change Your Mind and Nothing Changes by queerofthedagger The Once and Future King by CarpeDiem I Still Remember Your Eyes by Infinityattheend As a Sea Shell by bathilda bagshot (wellthengameover) See Me Through My Eyes and I'll Tell You What I See by Emrys MK (mk_malfoy) Unweave A Rainbow by MidnightLeFay And like the cycle of the year, we begin again by katherynefromphilly Captured and Claimed by vintagelilacs I Love You by evokingmemories happy reading anon š
I'm almost done reading a beautiful merthur fic (basically s novel imo) and i Need more merthur fix it fics/series where Arthur finds out about Merlin's magic
Any recs?
Hello there! You have come to the right person, i read Merthur fic all the time haha! I've given many favs of mine before, you can find them all here. Iāll give you some new recs i enjoyed recently that i didnāt rec there! The Isle of Mora by Ceebee This Dark Road Will Lead Us Where We Want to Be by accordingtomel Dirty little secret by oddishly That's What Servants Are For by GeekLover You Looking at Me Looking at You by ArgentSleeper All lives are (love)stories by amithia Have fun reading š
reblog the Don Draper of getting a job heās unqualified for and youāll have 10 years of getting jobs youāre unqualified for
No but my dad actually did this at McDonalds in the 70s!
So hereās a true story: my father, sometime in the 70s was looking for his first job. He went to the local McDonalds and told the staff, [managerās name] said I was supposed to start today. They took his word for it and started training him and by the time the manager saw him and asked who he was, people just said āoh thatās the new guy.ā
Somehow this actually worked. My dad worked there for a couple of years as a cook. He even won an award plaque which he had on the wall until the day he died.
Confidence Helps
Me, walking into FBI Headquarters:
āNameās Burt Macklin, I work here now.ā
You canāt let this be lost in the tags
Not the same anon as the middle name anon but I loved the post so much it gave me extra thoughts!
1) Thomas telling Jimmy to be proud of his middle name because it means his parents cared enough to give him not one but two names. Jimmy asks what Thomas' middle name is (partly to make it equal) and Thomas goes very quiet and mumbles that he doesn't have one. Plus, he's only called Thomas because it's his father's name - it's not like they made an effort to give him his own name
OR
2) Jimmy finds out that Thomas' birth name isn't actually Thomas - instead Thomas chose that name when he left home, to separate himself from the life he left behind (and to protect him if anyone came looking for him). Only Baxter knows his true name
I like both even if they both HURT me.
1. Jimmy doesnāt say much about it but a week or so later he comes back to Thomas with a whole list of names heās created that all mean something to him so Thomas can chose a middle name for himself. Bonus points if Thomas chooses Jimmyās dadās name.
2. This fits in with a conversation we had on the Thomas Barrow discord about Thomasās backstory being his family was involved in crime and he fouled up a job for them when he was a kid and thus had to change his name and went into service to hide.
some of my favourite vĆdeo essays about art history:
whose migrant mother was this? the story of the native american woman who became the face of the 1930s depression (and got almost nothing for it)
bauhaus design is everywhere, but its roots are political how even a simple choice between what font to use can be a political act
edvard munch: what a cigarette means munch + tobacco = art? (yes weāre still on the topic of art as a political weapon)
art that was never finished how great masters sometimes even didnāt finish stuff. also! the history behind the colour aquamarine
fka twigs on mary magdalene (if you like asmr youāre gonna love this)
having a coke with frank ohara (technically not art history but this video is too good for me not to mention)
video postcard: woman at her toilette a quick dive into my favourite painting of woman impressionist berthe morisot
this documentary about georgia oĀ“keeffe (that ive seen about 10 times)
david hockney on vincent van gogh on love of nature, beauty, attention, and the art of looking (essentially a mary oliver poem in interview format!!!!)
dante and the invention of hell short film about centuries of art depicting danteās circles of hell, my favourite works possibly ever made were inspired by his writing (sky arts documentary so itās not your standard v. essay)
whoās afraid of modern art: vandalism, video games, and fascism about the meaning of modern art and the publics response to it, as well as a political campaign to eradicate it or moreso make an example of the so-called āundesirableā nature of their art
how to make communist art on the future prospects of art for artās sake and creativity outside of capitalist restraints
Brigsby Bear, nostalgia culture and millennial optimism a little off topic but an essay about a film that questions our need to attach our identities to our past and our childhoods in particular, questionning whether we should put our faith into recreating our old loves or creating new ones - i think its relevant based on the films perspective on art
museum theft PLEASE watch this introduction if nothing else today, it will make you cling to the edge of your seat; truly a masterpiece
NumbĀ // Linkin ParkĀ 80s Remix
I didnāt know how much I needed this until I heard it.
The original song is how depression felt at first, this version is how it feels now
@l-heure-du-the this is so VIOLENTLY your fucking aesthetic
From āā¦ nothing mattersā¦ā to āNOTHING MATTERS! :Dā
Good omens - Hard Times // The Magnus Archives - Bloody Mary // Hannibal - Apertivo // Killing Eve - You're Mine // The Penumbra Podcast - Juno Steel And The Murderous Mask pt. 2 // The Witcher - Rare Species
wasnt azula being fatphobic when she called iroh uncle fatso??
youāre rightā¦. let me add fatphobe to the list of Why Azula is Problematic right underneath her multiple war crimes
Have you ever thought of a Chinese dragon combined with a dachshund or a ferret?
you mean like. a little. weiner dog dragon ohhohoohh man
OH NOOOOOO I LOVE THIS SO MUCH