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“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat…giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien.
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The highly social and expressive grey wolves are most well-suited to cooperative hunting of all the canids. Playtime looks pretty much the same though! ©
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oh so when other people say "eat the rich" it's a rallying cry for the working class, but when i, sweeney todd,
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the best part of being an adult is being able to buy things without having to explain shit to anyone. and the worst part is everything else
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Lovely edition of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame with illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard
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It's Sunday 🐈🍃
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capybara
cousins!
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when u use cgi blood u r literally depriving ur horror actors of enrichment which is essential to their health
24 in 2024 - April Update
We're a bit more than a quarter way through the year, so I figured I'd post an update on this. (Really I saw @the-forest-library post her update, and it reminded me of this list's existence.) I feel like 5 out of 24 is quite respectable. That's about 21%. And two of these (Sister Novelists and Cecilia) are my top two books of the year so far!
- Antigone by Sophocles (classic)
- Ariadne by Ouida (classic; dissertation)
The Biographer’s Taleby A. S. Byatt(historical fiction)2 stars- Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller (historical fiction)
Ceciliaby Frances Burney(classic)5 stars- Contes by Charles Perrault (classic; in French)
- The Daisy Chain by Charlotte Mary Yonge (classic)
- Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau (classic)
- The Doctor’s Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (classic; dissertation)
- Fairy Tale by Stephen King (fantasy)
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (classic)
- How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman (nonfiction)
- Ideala by Sarah Grand (classic)
The Idiotby Elif Batuman(literary fiction)4 stars- Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin (nonfiction)
- Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura (fantasy)
- Mortomley’s Estate by Charlotte Riddell (classic; dissertation)
- New Grub Street by George Gissing (classic; dissertation)
The Perpetual Curateby Margaret Oliphant(classic; dissertation)4 stars- Richard & John: Kings at War by Richard McLynn (nonfiction)
Sister Novelistsby Devoney Looser(nonfiction)5 stars- The Stranger by Albert Camus (classic; in French)
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (classic; dissertation)
- The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (classic)
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ok what’s your florence + the machine song. mine is rabbit heart (raise it up)<3
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Anna Karenina the book, oil on canvas
The canvas is not thick enough, obviously, but other than that I'm pretty satisfied with the end result.
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I absolutely adore the illustrations in this Wind in the Willows book.
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Sofia Coppola photographed by Bibi Borthwick for Another Magazine.
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Our Favorites: [Day 23/24] Nat’s Favorite Scene Overall (The Lord of the rings) ↳ I can’t carry it for you. But I can carry you.
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Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.
All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.
No need to keep this in the tags, you're completely right about this scenario!