jinxed things

i can’t believe i’m updating my tumblr app in the year of our lord 2026 AD

[ceren2]

[feldfrog]

As a kid, I wasn’t allowed to touch the hot stove with my bare hands. But now I get to do it whenever I want

[petaltexturedskies]

But I do feel strange—almost unearthly. I’ll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

[idc0o]

Somehow being a person does not come naturally to me

[lunamonchtuna]

Pandora’s Box (1929)

[scaryfangsremade-blog]

well i used to be attracted to people but now im exclusively attracted to abstract art and the concept of death

[nunaco]

the thing that broke my heart the most about reading catcher in the rye was how many people saw the result of a teenage kid who was mistreated and abused and well, basically betrayed by everyone he trusted which would fuck with anyone’s perception of people, when repeated or not, and decided that the only lesson they’ll take out of the book is that he’s crazy or annoying

it’s so bizarre to me how most people who argue that he’s crazy or annoying can’t connect holden with real cases of how most victims of abuse are seen as and treated, because most of the time a perpetrator of abuse is a normal human being, just like you or me, and often is seen as a model human being, such as a close adult or youth leader or parent or teacher or family member, in comparison to a victim who may already be unlikable in their community

and that’s what leads to shunning victims both in real life and what holden experienced, being viewed as a troubled teen and embracing that label as a defense

this is the way you’d tell me that you didn’t understand catcher in the rye without actually telling me “I didn’t understand catcher in the rye”

[kaikartel]

people really do say fuck you in different ways, just pay attention

[papayajuan2019]

thinking about experiencing my first sensation soon

[csny]

the bus is never going to come because im a bad person

[tinytimism]

franny glass you are just like me

[loveridden1999]

when james baldwin said "why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home anymore. then you will really be in trouble. as long as you stay here, you can always think: one day i will go home."

[noahseby]

theyre going to shoot me out back tomorrow and i will enjoy it

[scissorsaint]

nice wound. Could use some salt though

[dracstoevsky]

i love that holden positions himself as super jaded and untrusting but he continues to love people he shouldnt just because he cant help himself. he has so much love to give :(

[pinkblanc]

The Ballantyne Press, Cathedrals, 1926

[thecatcherlntherye]

holden and eustacia should’ve met it’s honestly such a shame they didn’t