Jasmine

"She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."

[jugurtti-deactivated20210925]

[whenidiehallelujahbyandby]

you should absolutely be a toxic worker and do as much damage to your company's bottom line as possible

[best-friend-quads]

I hope (because I’ve seen people make this argument before) that the people reblogging this take it to mean “be neutral or nice to the people you work with in a way that harms the company” and not “randomly be a dick to your coworkers, who are just trying to make a living and don’t need to deal with obnoxious behavior on top of that”

[nonegenderleftpain]

I'd wager that's what they mean. When I worked at Walmart, my coworkers and I covered each other's back and didn't pay a cent for our lunches for a solid two years. If they wouldn't pay us for lunch, we were gonna steal it instead. For me, it was often the only meal I'd eat that day and I can't tell you how many fresh sandwiches and salad I snatched lol. Eat the rich (and their sandwiches) but not each other

[the-fox-jawed-cryptid]

Do you know how much food I pocketed from the bakery when I worked back there? So much. Every Wednesday they would just have cart fulls (at least 3 full carts) of food they wanted me to throw out, nah I ate that shit and even gave some to others and took a lot of it home.

I only regret not giving some to homeless shelters

[balsambreath]

I thought of texting you “good morning, I can’t sleep” and then I remembered that you are on a journey which I am not a part of and that’s okay but good morning I can’t sleep

[destroymylife]

[missinyouiskillingme]

I really hope your dreams came true

[ohnoit-deactivated20210622]

STORY OF MY FUCKING LIFE

[thoughtkick]

“And if you call me at 4 am, too sad to even say hello, I will listen to your silence until you fall asleep.”

— Unknown

[perrfectly]

[vibrahte]

[quotemadness]

“The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.”

— Unknown 

[velvetandcelluloid]

craigslist love stories

[sphynxified]

The turkey is trying to make a break for it.

[memewhore]

[nonomella-deactivated20171016]

Coraline is a masterfully made film, an amazing piece of art that i would never ever ever show to a child oh my god are you kidding me

[cthullhu-deactivated20170910]

Nothing wrong with a good dose of sheer terror at a young age

[whatthecurtains]

“It was a story, I learned when people began to read it, that children experienced as an adventure, but which gave adults nightmares. It’s the strangest book I’ve written”

-Neil Gaiman on Coraline

[greenbryn]

@nightlovechild

[lierdumoa]

This is a legit psychology phenomenon tho like there’s a stop motion version of Alice and Wonderland that adults find viscerally horrifying, but children think is nbd. It’s like in that ‘toy story’ period of development kids are all kind of high key convinced that their stuffed animals lead secret lives when they’re not looking and that they’re sleeping on top of a child-eating monster every night so they see a movie like Coraline and are just like “Ah, yes. A validation of my normal everyday worldview. Same thing happened to me last Tuesday night. I told mommy and she just smiled and nodded.”

[wahbegan]

Stephen King had this whole spiel i found really interesting about this phenomenon about how kids have like their own culture and their own literally a different way of viewing and interpreting the world with its own rules that’s like secret and removed from adult culture and that you just kinda forget ever existed as you grow up it’s apparently why he writes about kids so much

[12drakon]

An open-ended puzzle often gives parents math anxiety while their kids just happily play with it, explore, and learn. I’ve seen it so many times in math circles. We warn folks about it.

[gokuma]

Neil Gaiman also said that the difference in reactions stems from the fact in “Coraline” adults see a child in danger - while children see themselves facing danger and winning

[sometimesrosy]

i never saw so much push back from adults towards YA literature as when middle aged women started reading The Hunger Games. They were horrified that kids would be given such harsh stories, and I kept trying to point out the NECESSITY of confronting these hard issues in a safe fictional environment.

[jewishdragon]

Also, in an interview, he said that Coraline was partially based on a story his not yet 6 year old daughter would tell him 

SAGAL: No. I mean, for example, your incredibly successful young adult novel “Coraline” is about a young girl in house in which there’s a hole in the wall that leads to a very mysterious and very evil world. So when you were a kid, is that what you imagined?

GAIMAN: When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn’t be a brick wall. So I’d sidle over to the door and I’d pull it open.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: And it was always a brick wall.

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: But it was one of those things that as I grew older, I carried it with me and I thought, I want to send somebody through that door. And when I came to write a story for my daughter Holly, at the time she was a 4 or 5-year-old girl. She’d come home from nursery. She’d seen me writing all day. So she’d come and climb on my lap and dictate stories to me. And it’d always be about small girls named Holly.

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: Who would come home to normally find their mother had been kidnapped by a witch and replaced by evil people who wanted to kill her and she’d have to go off and escape. And I thought, great, what a fun kid.

[wetwareproblem]

“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.” - G. K. Chesterton

[brawltogethernow]

Being a child is fucking horrifying: 2/10 would not do again.

[graciegubler]

I watched Coraline as a child when I was about 7/8. By this point in my life I was already well versed in paranormal subcultures and had indulged in many psychological thrillers/horror films with no problem. It didn’t matter if I watched them at 5 PM or 3 AM, they never scared me. HOWEVER, Coraline is the one film I can’t get out of my head. I have only ever seen it once, ten years ago, and I REFUSE to watch it to this day. Nothing else scares me; literally nothing. But, there is something about that film that haunts me. I actually purchased it when I was 12 for a sleepover, detertmined to get through it because I remembered it being so much similar to Tim Burton films, which I adored and still do, but it never made it out of the container. In the middle of my sleepover I ran into my moms room in the middle of the night and begged her to hide it somewhere or throw it away — to this day I don’t know what she did with it. As a grown woman I still have a very real fear and disdain for this film. To put it into perspective how ridiculous that is; i have the ability to sense and see spirits, I study serial killers as a hobby, and I tour haunted places and ghost hunt in the dead of night for fun. Someone please explain to me why I find this film so terrifying?

[oysterhearted-deactivated202411]

a wee doodle to remind myself that fresh starts are a good thing, everyone grows at their own pace 🌱🌱🌱

[city-of-fiction]

I think my favourite thing about books is how they shape us. Your book history is uniquely your own, no one else in the world has read the all the same books at the exact same times of their lives as you have, and all those books have changed you so intrinsically that you couldn’t erase their influence on you anymore then you could change your DNA.

[fattillthebones]

“I’ve watched girls nibble away at half an apple, diced into little chunks to make it last longer. That’s all she’ll eat today. I’ve watched girls drink five litres of water because ‘sometimes you’re not actually hungry, it’s just thirst’. I’ve watched girls drink tea like it’s liquid gold, to pinch their stomachs and feel sick at the sight of the rolls. I’ve watched girls exercise until they faint, until their hearts threaten to beat straight out of their chest because it’s the only way they feel loved. I’ve watched girls do mental calculations of how much they’ve eaten, 110 calories from a large apple, only 55 from half. I’ve watched girls cry in front of the mirror because they’ll never be size 6, never mind size 4, or 2, or 0. I’ve watched girls hide in bulky clothing when all they’ve ever wanted is to wear dresses that don’t cover everything up. I’ve watched them flinch when people say, “I like girls who have big appetites.” I’ve watched them smile when people say, “you’ve lost weight, haven’t you?” I’ve watched girls who hate themselves so much they refuse to accept affection. I’ve heard their silence when people comment on how little they are eating - they think: ‘at least now I don’t have a reason to look this way’. I’ve watched girls measure their worth by the gap between their thighs, gripping skin and bone, convinced it’s fat that can be burned. I’ve watched girls, living skeletons, who laugh and smile just like everyone else, who needed someone to lend them a little strength when they couldn’t find their own, for someone to reach out and say: ‘can’t you see you don’t need to do this to be beautiful? You don’t need to do this to be loved.”

—

S.Z. // Excerpt from a book I’ll never write #178 (via blossomfully)

🌸🌸🌸

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[octoberis4loverz]