Maybe. This word. Why can such a five letter word cause so much destruction to someone. It feels like all I have inside me is doubt and being unsure of everything leads me to question everyone. Including myself.
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Maybe. This word. Why can such a five letter word cause so much destruction to someone. It feels like all I have inside me is doubt and being unsure of everything leads me to question everyone. Including myself.
āIt is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such.ā
āAnne Carson, Autobiography of Red
āWho hasnāt ever wondered: am I monster or is this what it means to be a person?ā
āClarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
āCatherynne M. Valente, The Orphanās Tales: In the Night Garden
āThey say Iām a beast. And feast on it. When all along I thought thatās what a woman was.ā
āSandra Cisneros, Loose Woman
āThe she-monster is hardly a new phenomenon. The idea of a female untamed nature which must be leashed or else will wreak havoc closely reflects mythological heroesā struggles against monsters. Greek myth alone offers a host - of Ceres, Harpies, Sirens, Moirae. Associated with fate and death in various ways, they move swiftly, sometimes on wings; birds of prey are their closest kin - the Greeks didnāt know about dinosaurs - and they seize as in the word raptor. But seizure also describes the effect of the passions on the body; inner forces, looser, madness, arte, folly, personified in Homer and the tragedies as feminine, snatch and grab the interior of the human creature and take possession.ā
āMarina Warner, Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time;Ā āMonstrous Mothersā
āI donāt want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.ā
āAnne Carson, Decreation
āLouise Glück, āBlue Rotundaā
āHow can I teach her / some way of being human / that wonāt destroy her?ā
āMargaret Atwood, Two-Headed Poems
āā¦and what I want to say / is that I am not what I was, I am / a changeling, half-creaturely,ā
āCamille Norton, Corruption: Poems; āWild Animals I Have Knownā
āPeople feel that in her, the nonhuman. People are afraid of her. Something in her inspires a nonhuman attachment. Sur elle, the human feelings seem to slip, they glisserāā
āAnaĆÆs Nin, Nearer the Moon
āCamille Norton, Corruption: Poems; āIndex of Prohibited Imagesā
āShe had a feral gaze like that of an untamed animal,ā
āMargaret Atwood, Murder in the Dark: Stories;Ā āWomenās Novelsā
āā¦does she wander still, searching human faces / For one who might speak of her / In her own language, look into her eyes / And gentle the wildness once and for all?ā
āMay Sarton, Letters from Maine: New Poems
āHow can she bear the pain of becoming human? The end of exile is the end of being.ā
āAngela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories;Ā āThe Lady of the House of Loveā
āHĆ©lĆØne Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa
āA woman in the shape of a monster / a monster in the shape of a woman / the skies are full of themā
āAdrienne Rich, āPlanetariumā
āA monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.ā
āOcean Vuong, āA Letter To My Mother That She Will Never Readā
āPersonally, Iām a mess of conflicting impulsesāIām independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part of the whole. I doubt that Iām the only one who feels this way. Itās the core of monster making, actually. Wanna make a monster? Take the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortableāyour weaknesses, bad thoughts, vanities, and hungersāand pretend theyāre across the room. Itās too ugly to be human. Itās too ugly to be you. Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves. Oh weāre a mess, poor humans, poor fleshāhybrids of angels and animals, dolls with diamonds stuffed inside them. Weāve been to the moon and weāre still fighting over Jerusalem. Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. Itās two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, Iād know it was something true. Now Iām trying to dig deeper.ā
āRichard Siken, Sporkās Editorās Pages: Black Telephone
āIs it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?ā
āFriedrich Nietzsche, Good and Evil
āI was driven because I wanted to be like others. / I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me.ā
āCzeslaw MiÅosz, āAccountā
āWhen I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster?ā
āMary Shelley, Frankenstein
āDraw a monster. Why is it a monster?ā
āJanice Lee, Daughter
Ha. This is a bit 13 years too late
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I donāt even know if feeling sorry for myself is worth it. Iām not deserving of any signs of compassion and pity
my new roommate said that her last roommate had an eating disorder and then talked to me about her clean eating and weight loss goals and how she buys clothes that are a little snug to motivate her to lose more
and like honestly? i have anorexia but this is why i constantly talk about the dangers of the āhealth and fitnessā industry and diet culture bc we have essentially normalized certain symptoms of disordered eating but itās ok if itās under the guise of health i guess???
like how is calling it ācleanā eating NOT a way to moralize food
how is intermittent fasting NOT the same thing as skipping meals
how come when i buy clothes that donāt fit, itās something i have to tell my therapist about because it means i am putting pressure on myself to fit into them, but if a ānormalā person does it then itās just motivation for them?
where is the fucking line???
and more importantly when are we going to start acknowledging that the entire world is pro-ana but thatās too harsh of a description so we slap some health buzzwords on it to make it palatable
when are we going to take responsibility for encouraging disordered behavior instead of labeling those of us with EDs as the crazy/imbalanced ones
your fucking Whole30 or keto or whatever ācleanā diet youāre on is just as restrictive as the diets we create for ourselves due to our disorders. but we are the crazy ones, right
Fucking repost.
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