“Why do people like a character who’s committed war crimes but hate this other character just because they’re annoying” because it’s fiction Susan, and being annoying in fiction is a greater sin than being a supervillain, because it won’t make me want to read about them. It isn’t difficult to understand
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” (Oscar Wilde)
The war crimes are fictional but my annoyance is real.
the concept of how sir arthur conan doyle was as a person always sends me into fits. imagine making the most famous literary character of all time but you hate the character so much you try to kill him off. but everyone is so horny for this asshole detective they make you bring him back. even your own mother gets mad when he’s dead because she likes him. raising your prices to ridiculous rates to avoid writing holmes stories backfired and now you’re rich. it’s absolutely a pain because it’s keeping you from your true passion which is spiritualism despite how one of your good friends harry houdini keeps telling you it’s bullshit. you consider your best novels to be historical ones but they’re well over shadowed by the nemesis of your own creation sherlock fucking holmes. some fake photographs from some kids convinced you faeries were real and you wrote a whole book about it. you started writing stories in medical school. and yes, also you are a doctor. after you’re dead, they erect a statue of sherlock holmes across the street from your birthplace, causing you to probably roll over one hundred eighty degrees in your grave and scream into your casket pillow.
i started listening to an audio book of twenty thousand leagues under the sea and my first impression of captain nemo is that he’s a dramatic nerd
These are my own suggestions based on what I know about each type. Feel free to add more suggestions! Click here for Part Two.
ISTJ - The Duty Fulfiller
Moby Dick - Herman Melville Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISTP - The Mechanic
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell The call of Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
ISFJ - The Nurturer
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
ISFP - The Artist
The Three Muskateers - Alexandre Dumas Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
INFJ - The Protector
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien Life of Pi - Yann Martel Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
INFP - The Idealist
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Persuasion - Jane Austen Tess of the d’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
INTJ - The Scientist
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
INTP - The Thinker
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Animal Farm - George Orwell And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
"my child is fine" your child's favorite trope is a tough old warrior who could kill a man with their bare hands in over a hundred different ways grudgingly adopting a small reckless child they grow to love and protect with their dying breath
Johnathan Harker was found white-haired, half-alive, and fully feral in the woods, spent two months screaming about vampires in a Budapest nunnery, and Mina decided to wife that immediately
Wilhelmina Harker was tormented by dark visions while she slowly and horribly turned into a creature of darkness and evil, and John decided that he’d stay totally, unquestionably loyal and loving to her
The Harkers were the Victorian equivalent of the Addams family, basically
shout out to all the people who identify with gifted kid burnout syndrome who are probably just neurodivergent but werent diagnosed as a child, who used to devour books like it was nothing and never really understood why the protagonist would leave their cool fantasy world behind to go back home at the end of the story, and who are now extremely disappointed in reality and use escapism as their primary coping mechanism. how’s that bisexuality and deep-rooted anger at the school system going for you?
When Lady Macbeth asked to be unsexed in hopes of escaping (seemingly powerless) femininity to gain (substantial) power, I felt that.
one time i said that i LOVE male versions of the lady macbeth archetype because of how much they flip gendered expectations and i have literally had 2 people tell me that gender bent lady macbeth is just macbeth.
and like. NO! the appeal of lady macbeth is the manipulation of your spouse into doing the deed that you cannot or will not. the blood not being on your hands, but you still having a major hand in their deaths and reaping the benefits AND the guilt afterwards.
“gender bent lady macbeth is just macbeth” my ass
Forget about the modern anti-aging beauty products and get yourself a gay painter.
A good book and classical music playing softly in the background is what I enjoy on every afternoon
–The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Can we just take a moment to acknowledge how dramatic Dorian is
jane austen writing persuasion about a woman considered "aged" by society dreaming of a lost love coming back into her life and then it does when in austen's life it never did and she wrote it and never showed anybody and it was only published after she died
2020 has been a garbage year, we deserve nice things. and by nice things, i specifically mean a HOT wentworth in the new persuasion adaptation
Ed Begley, Jr. (via asking-jude)
