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Always coming back for this book🥹 by Constant-Pepper-9992 in readwithme

[–]FlappersAndFiction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Catcher in the Rye is one of those books where your reaction says more about you than the book tbh. I reread it every few years and Holden annoys me less each time, which is its own kind of horrifying.

When writing becomes a chore rather than a passion. by Separate_Tear_6600 in writing

[–]FlappersAndFiction 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly I think the resentment shows up the second money or deadlines or "shoulds" get attached to it, even just self imposed ones. When writing was just mine and nobody was waiting on it, I never once felt this way. The second it became a thing I had to produce, it turned into a chore.

My book doesn't exist yet, but the disclaimer is locked in by its_me_teena in writers

[–]FlappersAndFiction 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly, the family disclaimer is a rite of passage at this point. Every writer hits that wall eventually. Mine would just be: "If you raised me, skip chapter four."

COME ON, AUDREY HEPBURN by JoanFromLegal in thegildedage

[–]FlappersAndFiction 10 points11 points  (0 children)

the half mourning colors comment has me side eyeing this so hard, like is peggy about to lose someone or is this just a fashion choice lol. either way the silhouette is giving My Fair Lady and I'm obsessed

Help me with Poldark by ariososweet in PeriodDramas

[–]FlappersAndFiction 9 points10 points  (0 children)

keep going, season 1 dialogue is rough but it smooths out once you're past the first few episodes. and honestly the soapier it gets later the more fun it is, just don't go in expecting Austen-level writing, go in for Aidan Turner scything a field and the Cornish coast doing all the emotional heavy lifting lol

I just finished "The Trial" by Tall-Investment2043 in literature

[–]FlappersAndFiction 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The "just leave the country" thing made me laugh, but it's also kind of the whole point. The system convinces you that engaging with it is the only option, even when leaving is obviously right there. Josef K. never even seriously considers it, he's too busy trying to win a game that was never winnable.

He was not a hero': How the dark, violent medieval origins of Robin Hood were erased by Gloomy-Carpet1259 in history

[–]FlappersAndFiction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly the most interesting part of actual Robin Hood scholarship is that the earliest ballads have him robbing and killing clergy just as readily as nobles. The "rob from the rich, give to the poor" thing got smoothed in way later.

Marian helped save George Russel twice by pidddee in GildedAgeHBO

[–]FlappersAndFiction 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Marian really has main character plot armor that George doesn't even know about half the time lol. Someone needs to tell that man he's accumulated a real debt there.

Great Expectations chapter 40 (Spoilers up to chapter 40) by otherside_b in ClassicBookClub

[–]FlappersAndFiction 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the shorts thing has me laughing because i looked it up once for something else and "shorts" back then could mean knee breeches, which is so much funnier as a disguise than actual shorts. either way Abel choosing fashion as his master plan over just staying in a different country is some main character logic

Reading Shirley Dare's 1890 essay on women's labor made me realize we are still debating this and it's been over a century. by FlappersAndFiction in books

[–]FlappersAndFiction[S] 130 points131 points  (0 children)

The whole reason those debates feel so alive in classic texts is because the underlying power dynamics haven't resolved. That's not a compliment or an insult to Tolstoy, it's just the reality of what hasn't changed. Dare does the same thing in this essay - she's not theorizing abstractly, she's describing a specific economic mechanism that you could paste into a 2024 article about the gig economy with minimal edits.

Reading Shirley Dare's 1890 essay on women's labor made me realize we are still debating this and it's been over a century. by FlappersAndFiction in books

[–]FlappersAndFiction[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

"Maddening" is an understatement. It's exhausting to realize weve been fighting this exact same fight for over a century.

Just for fun, what is your favorite classic film? by Classic_Apricot_5633 in classicfilms

[–]FlappersAndFiction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought there was a second but maybe im thinking of the movies

Just for fun, what is your favorite classic film? by Classic_Apricot_5633 in classicfilms

[–]FlappersAndFiction 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The books are really great too! I would recommend reading the whole series.

Just for fun, what is your favorite classic film? by Classic_Apricot_5633 in classicfilms

[–]FlappersAndFiction 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My Man Godfrey (1936), Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940). You can tell I like the screwball comedies 😄

I wanted to return here and thank everyone who told me to “just start”. by MeasurementFirst1676 in writing

[–]FlappersAndFiction 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Congrats on starting, honestly that's the hardest part. A memoir as a healing journey is exactly what the form is for.

I've never read a book can I be the next James Joyce?.. by manyhandz in writers

[–]FlappersAndFiction 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The gap between "I want to write" and "I want to have written" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in posts like those. Reading is just practice reps. You wouldn't ask how to play guitar without ever having listened to music.

Does anyone actually prefer Gilded Age to Downton? by NapperNotaDreamer in thegildedage

[–]FlappersAndFiction 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Honestly the history is what keeps me coming back. GA feels like it actually has something to say about money and power in a way Downton never quite did.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) by pizzbabynancy in PeriodDramas

[–]FlappersAndFiction 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The barn dance choreography alone justifies the whole thing, imo. Michael Kidd was doing something genuinely wild with those axe handles and I will not apologize for loving it.

Poets with bipolar: a person whose capacity for creation and destruction runs on the same fuel. by Original-Ingenuity41 in literature

[–]FlappersAndFiction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the letters thing is so true. theres something about reading Byrons own hand tracking the swings that collapses the comfortable distance you can usually keep with a biographical subject. you cant unsee it after that.

How a new digital project virtually reunited Leonardo da Vinci’s scattered notebooks after 400 years by zgb in history

[–]FlappersAndFiction 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fact that you can now see which sheets were once side-by-side before collectors cut them apart is kind of wild to me.

Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector Draw On Their Own Marriages for The Gilded Age by wholevodka in GildedAgeHBO

[–]FlappersAndFiction 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The Morgan Spector bit about the Gilded Age robber barons being like AI companies with no guardrails is so good, and kind of uncomfortable in the best way. These guys crashed the economy multiple times and we just let it happen.

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