Literature Memes - Blog Posts

Sometimes I wonder how much fanfic of classical/iconic literature exists because of school projects. Just floating out there. In a drive somewhere. Not to mention that nothing is more unhinged than bored middle/highschoolers being forced to liven up books they might not care about. For every deranged ao3 crossover fic there is an infinitely more deranged crackfic written for the great gatsby or antigone or to kill a mockingbird or whatever by a bored highschooler and his friends for 10th grade English. I wanna read it

literally so funny in tbk the amount of times alyosha scurries and vaults himself over walls and hedges and gates while in his longass monk robes. the image of it described every time is the funniest thing ever i love him so dearly

Me back in the day, reading Moby-Dick for the first time: Sh*t, another Ahab monologue incoming, better pause to go fetch a bunch of handkerchieves.

Me now a day, rereading Moby-Dick for the [redacted] time: That Ahab monologue incoming today, better load up with a bunch of handkerchieves.

Another email from our good friend Jonathan and I'm beginning to think it's not the paprika making him feel odd.

At least he’s staying positive!

Americans don’t wear cowboy hats all the time? What’s the point then?

Goddamnit Victor, just because your a genius in science doesn’t mean your a genius in other aspects of life!

Horace’s Carmen Saeculare is wild

I knew all of these names individually but I never realised how insane they sound put together. Someone who doesn’t know Horace please make a story using these as the chapter names.

Frankenstein looking at his monster before and after seeing the eyes

Me @ sth I just finished writing: This is peak poetry. This is epitome of beauty. * chef's kiss *

Me @ same writing 1 hour later: Is this my hideous progeny?

Hercule Poirot but it's a film noir and he speaks like an american detective (still with the accent)

"Yes...I see zat ze doll waz gutted by her fate az much az by her attacker...and maybee it iz bettere zis waye, when you see ouat this town iz becoming. Sometimes chazing city lightss leadz a dove's life off tracke"

*wistfully gazes at train tracks disfiguring Brussel's city center while bitterly chuckling, hands in a trench coat's pocket paired with a bowtie*

If the schematic design for the creature was made with Microsoft - which does not allow parentheses as of the late - after a LOT of swearing and cursing, the name would be changed to Creature_Final_FINAL-this one-_3_

since Microsoft doesn't allow parentheses as of the late, after a lot of swearing and cursing the name would be changed to Creature_Final_FINAL -this one!-_3_