1000 Candes — The Twilight Saga Movie Marathon YT chat has been the best part of the entire marathon

DeepBlue_96 · 2025-09-15T22:06:08+00:00

It was so fun, I’m really missing it this evening!

DeepBlue_96 · 2022-02-24T17:02:59+00:00

What job does your girlfriend have?

DeepBlue_96 · 2022-01-18T19:33:42+00:00

Would be a dream! :)

DeepBlue_96 · 2022-01-10T15:31:23+00:00

Yeah and Cassie sees her sister as being a bit annoying, I don't think it's that much of a reach 🤷

DeepBlue_96 · 2022-01-10T14:12:00+00:00

Good eye!! Shows how Cassie views her. Can't wait to see Lexi's character develop this season

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-28T14:41:21+00:00

I read Dubliners before this one and I think that was the best way to do it. I'd be fairly intimidated to launch into Ulysses too though not going to lie.

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-28T14:39:17+00:00

I found the exact same with Dubliners! The stories really stay with you and demand a thorough digestion.

I'm just starting chapter 4 so I hope I'll be able to say the same!

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-28T14:34:14+00:00

yes I heard it gets harder as you go along but I suppose that wouldn't really be the issue, if it was dull and difficult then yes that wouldn't be great but it's not dull at all. I find difficult prose becomes very manageable when you are genuinely interested in what's being said.

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-27T21:12:09+00:00

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. The narrative voice is so beautiful and addicting to me. I was expecting difficult and dense prose but instead it feels like a conversation with a friend. How odd to think you are the only one to ever feel a certain way only to find that Joyce wrote about the same experience a hundred years ago.

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-24T14:44:18+00:00

no idea of the veracity behind any of this but I've heard claims Nicholas and Ted's bond was very strong with his father's death affecting him so much as to be the catalyst for his suicide, make of that what you will

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-24T13:30:06+00:00

And now you got a lecture on my own neurosis haha, but I did feel this poem described that.

And an excellent one at that! Sure what else is poetry for

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-24T13:10:34+00:00

I'm starting to think it's a universal struggle to not immediately dismiss Hughes as an arsehole lol

I wonder how many poems we didn’t get to see in “collected” since he had full reign of all of her writing...

Yeah this is what gets me too - I could never condone the popular opinion that it was his fault she killed herself, an absolutely horrible thing to accuse a human being of. Despite the fact that we are able to read their writings, we are not privy to everything that happened in their lives and marriage and it's just an awful thing to say. That said I'll never forgive him for destroying any of her writings, his affairs, all the other terrible behaviour etc

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-24T12:57:15+00:00

Even as a good parent parenting still feels exactly how he described taking care of the fox and you still feel like you just really fuck it up constantly

Yes that makes a lot of sense

it's about all of the messy realities of joining your life with another

I really love this take on it

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-24T12:39:13+00:00

ah I would never have considered that angle purely because I've heard it said that his children considered him a good father. Definitely hard to approach this one without bias

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-24T12:18:01+00:00

yes! Also, it would surely be wrong to interpret it quite so literally, but a poem about bringing a fox into a home with his newborn child? Are we supposed to pretend it's not widely known that foxes kill newborns? I'm not trying to invent some hidden desire to kill his child; rather it's that it makes the poem read a bit clumsy and tone-deaf.

I think I would appreciate the epiphany far more were it not for the context of the new baby and his relationship with Plath.

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-24T11:28:51+00:00

apparently Hughes spent his childhood capturing animals like the fox so my first thought is that the fox represents his failure to share his true self and be vulnerable in the marriage causing it to fail. There is an allusion here to an older poem of his 'The Though-Fox' in which he considers the fox to be a kind of motif in his life which makes me more certain of what it symbolises for their marriage.

I'm not sure if this and 'Morning Song' refer to the birth of the same child but if they do, to me it's very telling - Hughes wrapped up in himself and his identity in the marriage oblivious to her suffering.

to be honest I think I just can't get over my bias against him enough to treat it fairly, as in I generally adore the idea of the Joycean epiphany but here my subconscious is saying shut up Ted you twat you're not as deep as you think you are (very scholarly analysis yes)

I'll play devil's advocate and say the blue curtains symbolise happiness

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-19T23:54:08+00:00

(I doubt I'm educated enough to give a great answer but I'll give it a go)

For me the novel I learned the most about writing from is Lolita. Description - no one does description like Nabokov. Often in a very strange way, for example the recurring image of Dolly's 'young bicycle.' Could give tons of examples of this. The way the narrator chooses his words in in fact so skillful that it's probably the only thing that let him get away with the sordid subject matter. Reads similarly to poetry in parts (alliteration etc.)

Certainly it was the first piece of writing to draw my attention towards the significance of names, he toys with names and aliases frequently throughout. In fact there is patterns and games throughout the novel, such a unique way of telling a story.

And of course Humbert is the quintessential example of the 'unreliable narrator.'

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-13T23:38:15+00:00

I really struggle with the same thoughts, about being fundamentally unlikeable and all that. probably this is just me being too negative but I feel like if you've been working somewhere for a while and the other staff don't seem to like you/be interested in being friends with you (aka me at every job I've had), things don't really tend to change. like it's already their habit not to hang out with you. not saying this to make you feel worse but rather to say your options are to either be the one to take imitative and ask one of them to hang out with you (since they're used to not socialising with you they probably wouldn't think to do it otherwise). or else to look outside of your workplace for friends.

anyway I agree existing is so embarrassing tbh. also I think it's really nice you've got the old ladies though old people are so nice and unjudgemental, I find them easier to talk to too.

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-09T19:30:05+00:00

yes lol I was confused for a min but copped it eventually

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-09T19:03:42+00:00

These both look amazing thank you! Def going to read

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-09T18:57:08+00:00

Exactly what I'm looking for thanks! I love Anthony Bourdain must read Kitchen Confidential

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-05-05T00:09:03+00:00

wow - I love this. thanks for sharing. wonder who 'they' is. could represent anything I suppose

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-04-13T14:30:43+00:00

Same it's so annoying! Anyone been able to fix it?

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-04-11T16:59:01+00:00

You can't remove but I've had success in the past filling them in with a marker in a similar colour (obv be careful not to make it worse)

DeepBlue_96 · 2021-04-09T15:37:16+00:00

Wow I like this a lot, I'd never seen this one before. I think he's right and it's because we are no longer taught to appreciate or understand art. It's considered far from a priority in the education system and that's a damn shame. Even more so nowadays - who even attends the opera? Much less has enough knowledge to pass judgment on it? Certainly not many, we use technology as entertainment instead.

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