chaos reigns

[pointnclick]

does anyone else remember grass. the warmth of the sun

[pointnclick]

winter makes me feel like the guys at the of the lotr. do you remember the taste of strawberries mr. frodo

[headspace-hotel]

I want to summarize what I’ve been reading about in the library. hhhhhh how do I do that

I’ve been reading (and have read) a lot about trauma and anxiety, and also literature, literary theory, literary criticism, things like that. I feel like I’m comprehending something vast about human nature and my own nature that makes me want to vibrate at the speed of light.

It’s something to do with picking up a book in the literature section that was a survey of woundedness, or scars and wounds as motifs in classic literature, and picking up a book in the psych section about feeling safe and healing from fear, and realizing the books’ prefaces talked about essentially the same things in essentially the same language

sufficiently advanced psychology, that is, compassionate and human centered, is indistinguishable from literary studies

[headspace-hotel]

This book is about coping with real life horror, but it also is just one fantastic insight after another on how to write about horror, probably more so than anything I’ve read actually for the purpose of showing how to write horror.

[headspace-hotel]

I literally cannot stop returning to these lines in my head, especially “And only two processes are strong enough to reduce and contain fear. Those two processes are: knowing and loving.”

Does this writer know what a searing artistic insight they have happened upon? That a horror story, a story that delves in fear, must also be a love story, not in the sense of a story about falling in love or that centers the feeling of love, but in the sense that wherever love and understanding is absent, there true horror is, and whatever loves or is loved or must be loved, whatever understands or is understood or demands to be understood, that is what lets us fight back.

Like there are all these thinkpieces on what the core of the horror story is, what is the fundamental human fear that drives it, and I think this is it. It’s right here

[flora-flauna]

I ask the little little kids I work with to imagine growing a flower in their heads and then to tell me what color it is after we finish a particular activity and today in my one of my groups I had two kids and one said he grew a dandelion and the other told me she grew grapes but they WERE NOT delicious.

[dailywomen]

JADE Wonderland Magazine, Spring 2025

[nolevansagegap]

Javadi's and Mckay's relationship with sex and romance both being that they're frustrated... Javadi bc of her inexperience and Mckay bc of her long dry spell.... they can fix each other's problems 💜

[nolevansagegap]

and Javadi is a young woman who feels misunderstood by her mother, while Mckay is an older woman who's been too busy being a mother to have intimacy... two different sides of rhe same coin. They can fill that hole for each other so easily. Please pitt writers I never asked for anything

[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

[sweatermuppet]

written dec 16 2023. ID in alt description

[yesterdaysprint]

The Saturday Post, Piedmont, Alabama, June 2, 1888

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[alleesaur]

Red Herring - ever shifting to capture a room's attention, but always fish °‧ 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 ·｡

[nervousnotion]

Esquire KOREA _MINNIE i-dle (아이들)

[sapphling]

people will understand that owning an exotic carnivore as a pet is a high-risk activity that requires extensive care, research, training and resources to even begin to approach something resembling a safe and ethical situation but if you say anything about how they probably shouldn't let their 160lb untrained mastiff off leash at the mall to growl at toddlers they'll be like but he's just a pupperino and also you LITERALLY brought a human baby within my eyeline, which is a form of violence

[flora-flauna]

It's been a while since a song sank its claws into my brain the way everybody's eyes has.

[notkatniss]

Ok

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

[junglejim4322]

[tlirsgender]

Crazy thing about #healing #recovery Small Victories is when you'll have some shit going on that's like, saying this would involve admitting how you used to be doing. You know? Like hey guys good news I'm gonna change my bedsheets this year

[tlirsgender]

That's the thing about Doing Really Bad you kinda keep it to yourself. And then you start doing a little better & when you try to tell people this the vibe is like "what do you mean you were living in the sewer this whole time are you good?" while you're standing there like Yeah that's not the important part never mind that. I'm literally out of the sewer