i am emily, call me that or call me bear

kaiiiju blue /breathes heavily

i do art, i write things, i am very much an sff fan, euuuh what else

i'm adhd so if i seem to have forgotten something or gotten off track, please remind me

i rp from increasingly obscure canons including webcomics about werewolves and theology, and psychological thrillers from the 50s

big fan of vladimir nabokov hmu if you are a nabokovian

yup.

i live in minneapolis! yeah thats all i got rn

also real life bird enthusiast

known to peep

NABOKOV

LOLITA IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS OF ALL TIME

NABOKOV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes i love lo but "ada" is my fav

I kinda wish RPing Humbert Humbert weren't completely taboo because as a character he is effing brilliant

but wow he'd be the creep of creeps

ADA is great... and pale fire

yes!!! it would also be improbably difficult even if you COULD cross the line of what's appropriate

omg

i have a kinbote account somewhere

omfgalka

and another for ada and another for lucette gOD IM SO PLEASED NOW

you see whenever people say 'i like house of leaves' i'm like GO READ PALE FIRE

gOD YES EXACTLY

writhes. have you read pnin

I HAVEN'T YET SOBS i'm reading Dostoevsky right now

REALLY recommend it, for nabokov it's a very relaxed read

i will add it to my list because i love everything nabokov

pnin's also one of his most sympathetic and genuinely kind characters

if you like creepy men in literature though you should read The Collector if you haven't

it took me like 1 day to read

ive been meaning to!!

ok time to bump Pnin up the list

(like, if you squint you can see Nice People in his other works-- you can tell lolita/dolores is just a kid, and you know that lucette is really just... unlucky)

(but pninwhile not the pov character, that's the unnamed narrator is just so genuinely sweet and kind god i love him)

i love nabokov, though... and when you consider he wrote it IN ENGLISH but his first language is not english

im cry

his language skills are brilliant

hahah yes! though he was fluent from a fairly early age. still, i think you can kind of tell he's essentially esl?

YOU CAN but he's really good anyway

(i also grew up in a ukrainian/russian family so i just hear it in afamily's voice)

a family member's*

OH WELL

who me i apped in already

ALREADY THERE SO HAPPY 2 B THERE

who are you apping??

OH YAY i miss the days of OCs

i used to forum RP heavily

and it was all OCs....

the greatest concern in those days was 'men keep trying to godmode they should quit it'

me too i grew up doing forum rp exclusively

Ye Olde Redwall Fandom

-_-

i did Cheetachat on yahoo chat in the EARLIEST days

ha ha ha ha

that was so long ago

i had dial up

YES

btw ravenbone I am lari, a pleasure to meet you

youve made my day. god bless us every one

i rarely find other people who like Nabokov this much

i try to pimp out Lolita and people think I'm weird

"I KNOW IT'S ABOUT A CREEPER BUT SERIOUSLY JUST GIVE IT A TRY"

im so delighted about all of you

now tempted to app ada or lucette or kinbote or pnin or i dont. even know

writhes. writhes delightedly

lari heres another tiger. www.dreamwidth.org/userp... :''''')

im

somehow i knew

www.dreamwidth.org/userp...

www.dreamwidth.org/userp...

haha im too dedicated to playing a lady alongside luther tho

however charming pnin would be. i also would worry about getting the voice right bc the fuddy-duddy charm is a THING but i dont want to be. a jerk. about Funny Accents

especially since im now remembering an app i wont name that was basically "ha ha the russophone cant speaking englishes"

oh god id forgotten-

distant hollow laughter

i. yes.

id almost forgotten until i remembered it lit. YESTERDAY

like a bolt from the blue. kapow

part of my daily allotted Spite Hour

id forgotten about it completely until you mentioned it it was

really something dang

(author) was really something.

Oh jeez I remember that

and when i say that i mean i literally lack the adjectives

so yeah idb e really hesitant about pnin

bc like while i recognize its a problem... it really is part of the comedy of pnin?

yeah no there was kind of. that person was. hm

the fact that He Talks Funny? but its different when the AUTHOR HIMSELF is russian

and also like the narrator of the book is supposed to be kinda a jerk

yeah he is!

also a big problem with apping nabokovian ppl in general WOULD BE the narrators.

like arguably ada is all van's invention, for example.

i mean also just... appropriateness

like pnins whole thing with mira belochkin is sweet and sad but also i dont want to have to remind everyone "he is sad, because of ww2, and because mira died in a concentration camp."

..........lucette tho

lucette i could try.

THANKS FOR TIGERS LOL

LESS I HAVE TO MAKE A+

LMAO I HOPE YOU DONT ACTUALLY USE THESE

please use them

i recommend this blog for tigers though

thetigers.tumblr.com/

the curator just posts stuff they find by googling 'space tigers'

so, you know

tigers AND stars, what could go wrong

(its actually the best blog on tumblr short of realbusinessmen i enter a world of baffled joy every time i browse it)

I'd argue that onascaleofonetotenitsnotgood is the best blog on tumblr, tho

oh good point

LMFAO SPACE TIGERS

dying

I can back bramble up on this

it really is the best blog

( think i started following it because of you, actually, bramble)

(everyone should follow it and if it's because of me then I have done my duty to the internet)

mister_inkwell no thats the truth. real bear facts.

I suspected as much