| |
| The most recent commute audiobook was The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, of The Night Circus fame (although admittedly I have not read that one yet). This is a fantasy novel about Zachary, a young man swept into the drama of a secret underground society and the mysterious figures who surround it. I finished this book on Sunday morning, catching the last 7 minutes of a whopping 19-hour runtime over breakfast, and since then I've settled into a relative disappointment. On paper, this book has so many things that should make it an ace in the hole for me: Book lovers! Cats! Secret magical societies! Queer characters! Women who are something Other taking control of their destinies! And yet, overall, this book just did not land for me. As is a risk, I think, with all stories that are about the power of stories, The Starless Sea comes off a little pretentious and self-important. It is a book lauding the unmatched importance of books. I felt aware at various points throughout the book of how hard it was trying to appeal to people like me, who would enjoy the idea of a dark-paneled underground room with endless books and an on-demand kitchen, and this sense of pandering did take away from it at times. However, it also does some interesting things with regards to what it is like to be the person in a story (such as the fate of Eleanor and Simon, once their part in the story is done) as well as the risks of valuing preservation over change and growth. Without giving too much away, there is a secret society in decline, and a woman so determined to prevent its downfall that she ends up causing significant harm to the organization she's trying to save because she is unwilling to accept that an end comes for all things. I enjoyed this theme and I felt like it was echoed well throughout the story, and in many ways it's easy to sympathize with her ultimate goals, if not her methods.
| |
|
| CANON: MCU. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. CHARACTERS: Sam Wilson | Captain America (Anthony Mackie). ADDITIONAL INFO: 80 Icons. CREDIT TO: ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) inkonic
HERE @ inkonic | |
|
| Experimenting with zooming in super close so you can see the cool brushstrokes and other details, basically. Preview:    The rest here at lakertya | |
|
| I’ve been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite, can stop the bleeding — most people forgot this when the war ended. The war ended depending on which war you mean: those we started, before those, millenia ago and onward, those which started me, which I lost and won — these ever-blooming wounds. I was built by wage. So I wage love and worse— always another campaign to march across a desert night for the cannon flash of your pale skin settling in a silver lagoon of smoke at your breast. I dismount my dark horse, bend to you there, deliver you the hard pull of all my thirsts— I learned Drink in a country of drought. ( Read more... )From Postcolonial Love Poem - pg 1 | |
|
| CANON: MCU. Daredevil: Born Again. CHARACTERS: Matt Murdock | Daredevil (Charlie Cox). ADDITIONAL INFO: 135 Icons. CREDIT TO: inkonic
HERE @ inkonic | |
|
| CANON: MCU. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. CHARACTERS: Joaquin Torres | The Falcon (Danny Ramirez). ADDITIONAL INFO: 50 Icons. CREDIT TO: inkonic
HERE @ inkonic | |
|
| I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison,
Part panic closet, a little room in a house set aflame.
I lock you in a form that is part music box, part meat
Grinder to separate the song of the bird from the bone.
I lock your persona in a dream-inducing sleeper hold
While your better selves watch from the bleachers.
I make you both gym & crow here. As the crow
You undergo a beautiful catharsis trapped one night
In the shadows of the gym. As the gym, the feel of crow-
Shit dropping to your floors is not unlike the stars
Falling from the pep rally posters on your walls.
I make you a box of darkness with a bird in its heart.
Voltas of acoustics, instinct & metaphor. It is not enough
To love you. It is not enough to want you destroyed.
From American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin page 11 | |
|
| Code here ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) speperteristicoTitle: No-Style-Please Base style: Tabula Rasa Type: CSS Tested in: Firefox, Firefox mobile Features: Minimalistic, mobile friendly, automatic light/dark palette switch to match the browser's preferred color scheme | |
|
| Chancy by Louis L'Amour Adventure in the Wild West. ( Read more... ) | |
|
| The lullaby I wrote on your throat about the stained hilt of the knife in my hand begins — Whisper, or snow
will come and make its sadness famous in your mouth.The why of you a radiant devilfish, the what of you a fat little soul bluing at the edges. The surest way to receive a free ram is to tie your son’s hands behind his back. Offer me a metaphor, God said. Abraham stretched Isaac out on a rock, Like this?( Read more... )From Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod pg. 6 | |
|
| Book #7 from the "Women in Translation" rec list: Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah, translated from Korean by Deborah Smith. Trying to accurately describe the plot of this book is an exercise in futility, so I'm not going to bother. All I can say is it centers around Ayami, a woman who is an actress, or maybe a poet, or possibly both, and is on her last day of work at an audio theater for the blind in Seoul. This is a book I feel like I'd have to read at least one more time all the way through to be able to really discuss the themes and motifs at play. It's an incredibly cerebral novel that never gives up a clear answer about what's happening. What's real or not real changes from scene to scene. Is Ayami an orphan? Did she have a wealthy aunt? Is she the poet from Buha's youth? Is the director the bus driver? Who really got hit by the bus, and who was the murdered woman in the attic? Is Ayami Yeoni? The book leaves you to your own conclusions.
( Read more... ) | |
|
| - Tags:customized
- Mood:relieved
 - Music:Dawning Angels ♪ fine-O
| |
|
| Delete the number, trash the boxes give the sweaters away. Stop holding onto things that do not fit you anymore. Clutter has many faces. Forgive them. They didn’t apologize, and you’re still mad, but what I do know is this: a closed fist can punch through a wall, but you can’t fix the hole until you open your hands. The past is one of the few things more stubborn than we are. It will not change and doesn’t care if you have a better idea of how the story should’ve ended. ( Read more... )from Excuse Me as I Kiss the Sky pg. 119-121 | |
|
| CANON: MCU. Daredevil: Born Again. CHARACTERS: Frank Castle. ADDITIONAL INFO: 80 Icons. CREDIT TO: inkonic
HERE @ inkonic | |
|
| to care this way
by Threa Almontaser
is turning me off. so i take a walk.
plums fall from trees and protest
& i can’t see the colour green
anymore & just last night yo
just last night god went SPLAT
on my window like a fluttery lick
spittle & told me all love starts
in a garden. what am i supposed to do
with that? another friend goes. gone
enough. almost never here. those facetimes
inside me out all year, wishing I could see you
in the hospital. life breaks who doesn’t cry
eventually. one more grave in the middle
of all that green. prayers tangle in my pockets
like earphone wire. i think about the best way
to maneuver my mask & eat, then give up.
i think about the best way to sneak
into the hospital. what about the body
& everything it can’t keep? i’m so over
the garden. i stood at its knee, dressed in
leaves, begging for fruit. learned the only
predator in paradise is me. no eating or being eaten.
bony limbs, broken lungs & growing more
unknown. | |
|
| CANON: MCU. Daredevil: Born Again. CHARACTERS: Karen Page. ADDITIONAL INFO: 75 Icons. CREDIT TO: inkonic
HERE @ inkonic | |
|
|
Title: Revolumna InspireeCredit to: layoutlounge Base style: Transmogrified > BasicType: CSSBest resolution: 1600 x 900 + (works with 1280 x ?)Tested in: Firefox & EdgeFeatures: Default userpic image, semi-responsive, Gray and white contrast - Tags:color: gray, color: white, feature: 2 columns, feature: fluid width, feature: header, style: tranquility iii, tested in: firefox, tested in: internet explorer, theme: muted, theme: neutrals, type: css, type: full layout
| |
|
| Under the Sweetwater Rim by Louis L'Amour Adventure, danger, action in the Wild West. ( Read more... ) | |
|
| I made something spring-themed and would love to make one for you, too 🌸 aka, I'm offering freebie requests of this icon :D 
request your own @ killiansicons | |
|
|
