Cruel_Agony @cruelagony - Tumblr Blog

it's okay to like Bojack as a character and it's okay to relate to him as long as you acknowledge that he's Not A Good Person and he does shitty things and his actions hurt other people

like. I want him to be happy and I'm so so proud of him for getting better and he makes me laugh. but I will also never ever forgive him for what he did to Penny or Sarah Lynn bc that was fucked up

you can like Bojack and still recognize he's awful and want him to get better while hating him at the same time

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ink-and-oceans

“Wearily, she took every stone they had thrown, every lie and bitter word to form dark shell around herself, silencing the voices that haunted her every waking moment. When she emerged, she flew into the daylight with the wings that she had grew from all that hurt and melted the ice around her heart that she never thought she’d be able to live without.”

— tara love

thewanderingmillennial

So very true.

inkbyaporia

yesterday i met a drunk man in the streets of my favorite city in the world. he runs up to me. clutches me by the arm. looks me in the face. and tells me “i hope you marry the love of your life.” i laugh kindly, dismissing his words, dripping with hennessy, for drunken ramblings. i continue to roll down the concrete street that smells like coffee breath and dreams far too large to entertain and wonder where you are. is california being kind to you? do you ever think about me when you’re alone, when you are lonely, when the smoke and the sunlight and the strobe lights fail to chase away your thoughts like you’d always hope they would? do you remember when we found each other in being lost? when we were far too young to recognize the line between love and the idea of it? do you still want me? would you ever admit it? because the truth is we found each other trying to lose ourselves, and when i lost you, every day was a battle against your absence. i collapsed over you. i shed so much ink out of my pen it started to look like blood spilling out of my veins and as the months went on, i began not to care about the difference. i saw your eyes in hennessy bottles and rain that flung itself onto concrete and in every person in who saw my beauty and treated it with apathy. i mistook the end of our love for the end of love itself. i told myself i’d never find someone who cared like you, spoke like you, penetrated my mind like you. i told myself you were the last person to ever mean more than a night, a month, a kiss, or a regret to me. but you were never the ending of anything. i never should’ve been angry at you, because you were the beginning of all the love in my life. you were the first to show me i had the capability to cut myself open and spill open without a weapon. you were the first to show me i could fall in love without effort and my mind had room to fit the reality of someone else inside of its own drunken ramblings. thank you. thank you for showing me it is possible. thank you for finding me everywhere as a constant reminder. thank you for making me admire brown eyes again. thank you for allowing my limbs to grow in the absence of your skin. thank you for leading me to the person who will become the love of my life. i hope california is being kind to you. i hope i was kind to you. i hope you marry the love of your life.

— we found each other in trying to lose ourselves (ap 12.18.18)

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pulpsandcomics2

“Nightmare” #2 February 1971 cover by Boris Vallejo

surrealist-lyricist

Half - Pvris

thorndykes-deactivated20161204

please stop reblogging sylvia plath poetry

thorndykes-deactivated20161204

For ppl asking why she’s an anti black, anti Semite. She has used the n word and compared her depression to the holocaust

transwolvie

Even not counting her poetry her private journals are full of disgusting, overblown antisemitism. She didn’t just use Jewish people for her metaphors, she outright hated them irl and yet decided to use their suffering for her own gain

foulserpent

here’s a source with some quotes

meta-hemeralism-blog

okay, I’m Jewish and I appreciate this sentiment. and if someone wants to cut out Sylvia Plath, go for it, I get it.

But. by this logic we’d also need to stop reblogging TS Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Shakespeare quotes. Virginia Woolf wrote anti-semetic things in her private journals, too. If you only want to read classic poets who liked Jews and black people, that’s fine, but like. good luck? Sylvia Plath isn’t an exception.

idk. Tumblr’s attitude of “consume nothing problematic” just doesn’t work if you’re part of a group that most culture-creators over the last few centuries have hated by default. For people actually in those groups, it’s not like the only two choices are 1) worship authors who hate you or 2) completely cut the majority of literature out of your life. You learn to read critically and acknowledge flaws where you find them.

anyway, as a Jewish woman, I would much rather see a version of this post that said “please read Sylvia Plath poetry critically because she’s anti black and antisemetic” than just “stop reblogging Sylvia Plath poetry.”

IMO, reblog Sylvia Plath all you want, just not unthinkingly.

theroguefeminist

I’m reblogging this now because I’m seeing anti-Virginia Woolf discourse lately due to the antisemitism in her journals and like… as a Jewish person who loves Virginia Woolf’s writing and an English teacher who knows that pretty much every writer of the classics is Problematic just…chill pls

benevolent-atrophy

The point isn’t to never consume media that isn’t ideologically pure. That’s never the point. Were that the goal, we would NEVER be able to consume any media. Nothing is ever ideologically pure, especially as time goes on and our social consciousness expands.

We should be telling people instead, “Be critical as you read this person’s work. They held bigoted views. Understand how that is reflected in their work, and be mindful of it. Be critical, be thoughtful”

Compelling others to not engage with something at ALL on ideological grounds is in the same vein as burning books. We should be compelling others to be critical and mindful, not narrow and willfully ignorant.