*hysterical sobbing*

“The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.”

[engulfes]

'“It’s the little cruelties that get you,” she told him. “Never the big hurts, the pains you can point to, and say, ‘Oh, I see this bruise,’ but the wounds that you can’t even tell are there until one day you are eating a bowl of fennel soup or sunbathing on the deck of the pool and you can’t move, you can’t do anything, because you think, Well, something is dead in me, what has been done to me, and why did I allow this to happen? And now, and now, and now…”’

- Regina Porter, The Travelers

[cucurb]

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

[victimizationvictim]

[metamorphesque]

tanka #1, Tathev Simonyan

[phantomrose96]

job interviewer: would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for nothing?

[mangonetics]

Dogs serve as a kind of virtue eater for Americans to pour all of their kindness into without the risk of improving society or being nice to someone with any agency

[3liza]

IDENTITY EMERGES ORGANICALLY FROM ACTION

[3liza]

IF YOU DONT DO ANYTHING YOU ARENT ANYONE. SORRY

[vintage-tigre]

Debbie Harry’s iconic “Tiger/Zebra” dress, c.1976

She later explained in her memoirs that she fashioned the dress herself from a set of pillowcases that her landlord found in the street.

[autisticjonathanjoestar]

bouncing on it in repentance

[utopians]

duuuuuude you have GOT to come out tonight we're enacting cruelty upon those who have transgressed so badly that we can justify any act against them... and you KNOW we're interpreting our delight as moral righteousness... Yeah it's fucking crazyyyyyyy get an Uber

[sunburnt-brian]

[pleuvoire]

i think understanding the family as a system of ownership over both women and children will lead you to understand both misogyny and the oppression of children a lot better and also be able to draw informative parallels between both

[9e978e]

via

[aletheyass]

and are death and the maiden perhaps looking for a third

[sunb1eeder]

these people should be tortured in a fucking shipping container there is nothing more obnoxious than the type of person who’s always late. i don’t care if you have ADHD or time blindness you’re getting beat with rusty chains if this is a constant pattern of behavior.

[virgin-martyr]

What was wrong with her, this odd susceptibility to an utter stranger?

Alice Thompson, excerpt from The Book Collector

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse