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[knithacker]

Knit An Nydia Hat, For Babies, Kids & Adults, Designed By Vanessa Smith: 👉 https://knithacker.com/2025/06/knit-an-nydia-hat-for-babies-kids-adults-designed-by-vanessa-smith/ 💜

[wildhoneyvalancy]

“Oh, Valancy, I didn’t mean to be bad—I didn’t, indeed. But I loved him so—I love him yet—I’ll always love him. And I—didn’t know—some things. I didn’t—understand.”

(The Blue Castle, Chapter 23)

“You ought to have been more careful if you didn’t mean to get him to make you his wife!”

“O mother, my mother!” cried the agonized girl, turning passionately upon her parent as if her poor heart would break. “How could I be expected to know? I was a child when I left this house four months ago. Why didn’t you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o’ learning in that way, and you did not help me!”

(Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Chapter 12)

[pehme-kiisu]

[gaysie]

literally what would we do without gif makers thank you gif makers THANK YOU GIFMAKERS i love nothing more than to watch a tiny moment of a scene loop over and over and over the world is so beautiful

[sing-you-fools]

i recognize that my body would probably benefit from such as a yoga or pilates class but. well. not to be an edgelord but i need like yoga for assholes or something. i am from massachusetts and the vibe at these things puts me directly into fight or flight mode. why are you acting like this let me out let mE OUT

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[stuckinapril]

Honestly it boils down to reparenting yourself & rewiring your own neuronal pathways & telling yourself a firm “stop” when you notice your mind slipping down negative loopholes & being present in the moment & enjoying being mid task rather than waiting for it to end & not thinking of inertia as your baseline and natural way of living

[stuckinapril]

So tempting to keep embarking on the same self destructive cycle over & over & over again . But at some point you have to put ur foot down w ur own behaviors & be the thing that truly saves u

[wildhoneyvalancy]

Commentary on Chapter 22 of The Blue Castle

“The next thing the Stirlings heard was that Valancy had been seen with Barney Snaith in a movie theatre in Port Lawrence and after it at supper in a Chinese restaurant there.”

I wonder if the problem is just her being with Snaith and her “scandalous” attire or do Stirlings have a problem with cinema and Chinese cuisine too?

“I’m going to the Port. Will you go there with me?”

His eyes were teasing and there was a bit of defiance in his voice.”

Barney absolutely heard the “I wouldn’t mind him kissing me” comment.

“They tore into and through Deerwood. Mrs. Frederick and Cousin Stickles, taking a little air on the verandah, saw them whirl by in a cloud of dust and sought comfort in each other’s eyes.”

Amelia and Christine, under a tree, kissing 🎶🎶

“Valancy, who in some dim pre-existence had been afraid of a car, was hatless and her hair was blowing wildly round her face.”

Love that for her.

“A slave to moth-eaten traditions.”

I love this sentence.

“They went to the movie—Valancy had never been to a movie. And then, finding a nice hunger upon them, they went and had fried chicken—unbelievably delicious—in the Chinese restaurant. After which they rattled home again, leaving a devastating trail of scandal behind them.”

Best date.

“Mrs. Frederick gave up going to church altogether. She could not endure her friends’ pitying glances and questions. But Cousin Stickles went every Sunday. She said they had been given a cross to bear.”

Mrs. Frederick clearly only went to church for social reasons.

[dandelionsandderivatives]

“You should have been stricter with her when she was young,” said Uncle Benjamin. “I don’t see how I could have been,” said Mrs. Frederick—truthfully enough.

this line cracks me up every time I read this book

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

the supreme irony of orson scorson corson's virulent transmisogyny is that ender from enders game is like one of the most chillingly and accurately transmisogynized characters in all of science fiction

[xenasaur]

ohhhh yup. yeah. so that's why I liked that book so much as a kid. it was very easy to immerse myself in ender's world

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

if you take the explicit notion that is in the text that peter represents masculine power and aggression and valentine represents feminine love and nurturing, which the two of them discuss when making their decision to argue one another's viewpoints in the public sphere so as to temper each of their extremities, and you read that onto the notion that is again explicit in the text that ender, a "third" child who is illegal by birth and has only been permitted to be born in hopes that he can be the goldilocks child between his siblings' poles, is somehow the fusion of both of their natures, a quality which best qualifies ender out of anyone on earth to be sent to The Child Abuse Institute for Making Boys Into Weapons and trained through homosocial abuse to view genocidal violence toward an alien other as a game to be won, an experience which breaks him completely, it kinda just is like. bruh

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

fuck would estrogen have saved him, would estrogen have saved the buggers??? (what a name)

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

he is constantly wishing he was valentine and hating any part of himself that is peter. the most haunting line in the book, to me, which i can quote to this day from memory, was always after the brain implant which lets the military scientists monitor him is removed and he's ambushed (!) by a group of older boys (!!!) and he explicitly breaks the masculine code of fair fighting (!!!!!) by cheap shotting the ringleader and then stomping him on the ground, and once the fight is won and he gets away and he's completely sick with guilt and self hatred at having lashed out in violence, in his despair he says "I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter."

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

my explicit goal in writing this post is to get it reblogged and spread so widely that orson scott card sees it and finally cracks her poisonous self hating little egg. it's never too late you wack bitch

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

everybody wants to fuck my run-on sentence that has like 8 clauses and is a 4 full inches tall on a screen

[quotespile]

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

[omtai]

Hate how lighting a candle does wonders to my mood. Like wowwww. Grug like fire? Grug not sad anymore because Fire in Cave? Wow. Real predictable of Grug.

[flintandpyrite]

The problem with reading murder novels is that I always think I’m better than them. If I, through inaction, allowed my frenemy to die, surely I would not be consumed by guilt and self-doubt. Surely this is an illogical response to the situation. Surely I could just get on with my life, free of the thought of their last rattling breath. And then I realize I am exactly like them, and therefore I keep reading murder novels.

[kleinergeist]

After 9 months of work, my Oseberg tapestry sweater is complete!

This was my first sweater knitted in the round, first stranded colourwork project, and my first time steeking. It was definitely my most challenging project so far, and a lot of learning and research was involved. I used a colourwork chart created by the very talented Molly Gifford, which is available for free on Ravelry

For reference, this is one of the fragments uncovered from the gravesite:

Some scholars think that the Oseberg tapestry includes the earliest known artistic depiction of Odin's ravens, Huginn and Muninn. So I added them to the sleeves as a little Easter egg.

[crimeronan]

sometimes i have strong opinions but they're also so inane that halfway through writing a post i'll be like "yeah, this is Absolutely not worth the energy it's taking" and delete everything. but then the opinion is still in my head. and i still want to share it. so within five minutes i go "you know, i bet i can phrase it more succinctly this time" and anyway. you all see where this is going. sometimes i do this four times in a row before i give up on the specific inane opinion and instead write a vague post about the concept of opinions as if that'll satisfy the urge to post the entirety of my inner monologue online. may or may not be relevant to what you're reading right now. and now all our lives have been enriched. you're welcome

[jadwigaspeaks]

The fact that antisemites are using the word "noticing" and "noticing patterns" as dogwhistles is annoying because I do actually notice a lot of stuff, patterns included, and one of the most obvious patterns I've noticed to date is that all antisemitic rhetoric makes no sense if you think critically about it for 5 seconds. Often less

[jadwigaspeaks]

A TERF liked this post so I just want to clarify that another pattern I've noticed is the massive overlap between anti-trans rhetoric and antisemitic rhetoric

[minimushr00m]

the fact that the main criticism of If We Were Villains is the fact that the characters are one dimensional is crazy to me bc it shows that these people missed the entire point of the book. the characters are so immersed in the world of Shakespeare that they become the archetypes they acted as in the plays. they take part in the worst kind of method acting as they strive to be perfect. the whole story is centred around themes of losing yourself in an act. OFC THEY HAD NO DEPTH, THEY EACH STARTED AND ENDED THE STORY AS ONE THING AND ONE THING ONLY, THE SHAKESPERIAN ARCHETYPES THEY PLAYED. SOMEONE WENT TO JAIL OVER IT AND TWO PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF IT, THE PLOT OF JULIUS CAESAR PRETTY MUCH PLAYED OUT IN THEIR FUCKED UP LITTLE ARTS COLLEGE. OFC THEY'RE ONE DIMENSIONAL MY GOD.

anyways :D

[surayart]

If we were villains (by M. L. Rio) 🎭 Fanart by me, painted with Procreate