teen angst

hi i'm johanna and i don't even know what i'm doing anymore

[bookravager]

I think I was put on this earth to read good books but unfortunately I have to be "employed" to "live"

[heavensghost]

I dream of soft fruit

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

existing in this world as a deeply sensitive person geninuely feels like being sanded down into nothing

[unconditionalstudio]

[millipedemypants]

the cornerstones of life are failure and play and learning and they are like a beautiful trinity and you have to do all of them to grow as a person and they are all consequences of a curious being and curiosity driven action

[local-lesbian-tree-demon]

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[whizpurr]

[theweirdwideweb]

I've been at my job for almost a month now and I'm starting to form relationships with my coworkers. Something that makes me so sad is that I can't tell them that I have bipolar disorder. It's something I think about all day every day. I have to structure my entire life around it. It's a giant part of who I am and it's this burden I carry, and I want to tell them because it's such a big part of my life and it's horrible and I want to be close to them and be understood. But it's like....we've had this big cultural shift in the past decade where public attitudes towards mental health have changed. Anxiety, depression, autism, ADHD---these things are no longer unmentionable. My boss has ADHD--he told me so! But not all conditions have undergone this shift and certain mental illnesses are still taboo and unmentionable. Schizophrenia, anorexia, bipolar, really all the conditions that are the most difficult to deal with are still relegated to secrecy whereas if I had like CANCER I could just say that. It could be part of how people understood me and wouldn't be this secret burden that I have to hide and explain my way around. I was out yesterday sick and I showed up today without the flu. Would love to say, oh that's my condition. But it has to just be a secret.

[unchildhood]

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI

House of Leaves (2000);

photos by George Ngayu, or @monstertalent

[traumatizeddfox]

“omg peoples mental health is so bad they don’t shower??” girl some people have such bad mental health they kill themselves

[estrogenesis-evangelion]

my rule of thumb for this, for any behavior that you look at and go, "god, how can you not (X)?" is to ask myself: well. how bad would it have to be, for me? how bad would it be before i would stop doing that thing? how bad would i have to feel?

what would have to go wrong in your life, and how wrong would it have to go, for you to stop bathing? to stop eating? to let the garbage pile around you until you can no longer see the floor?

how bad would you have to feel, and for how long, before you would stand on the street screaming at anyone & anything? beating your fists on your head and crying? how bad would it need to be?

do you think there's some fundamental difference between you and people who suffer until their lives are unrecognizable to you? can you face the knowledge that if things went badly enough, you would be just like them? just like them? just like

[dogpuppy]

[deceasedcardinal]

[theehorsepusssy]

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[sugar-sacrament]

[loveridden1999]

do you think watching a million movies & shows is going to fill the hole in my heart. be honest