madness?

22 - she/her - Romania did I damn myself along the way? was I doomed from the start?

[carnadelions]

disliking your father for personality traits you have yourself but keep firmly repressed

[meanbuddhist]

just identified a behavioral pattern within myself

[egberts]

i got that dog in me but it's poorly socialized and i don't take it on as many walks as i should

[kocalls]

[not-right-wof]

[honeydewdropp]

imagine having a little garden where you grow strawberries for your cakes and cucumbers for your sandwiches and you have tea with your partner every midmorning.  you plant each other’s favorite flowers and give each other bouquets. thats the life.

[sharpenededgess]

[pmamtraveller]

Luca Ponsato - Does Anyone See My Suffering

[pvrrhadve]

you've met me at a very wild animal caught in a bear trap gnawing off its own leg time in my life

[fairycosmos]

most fucked up thing about parents is that you get what you get and nobody else will ever be them

[kosmogrl]

[s4nctum]

“through the window”

2008

[theancientmar1ner]

no one has ever described girlhood like elena ferrante. the expectations. the inherent dissatisfaction, with your body, with who you are, or rather who you’re becoming. the competition. being the centre of your universe, viewing everyone pretty much exclusively in relation to yourself. learning not to. beautiful and in sparkling prose and not overly romanticised. i am so emo abt my brilliant friend rn. Elena Ferrante the woman you are.

[8bitharlot]

— Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay. The Neapolitan Novels

[fitzcrozier]

[venuscrows]

ferrante is so good at putting into words the inherent masochism of engaging in heterosexual relationships, feeling love and desire for a class of people that very rarely if ever considers your humanity equal to their own, that doing so can often be detrimental to one’s own personhood

[cuuno-moved]

its unreal how all of my favorite characters have exactly the same traits and hobbies and diagnoses as me

[technicalzombie]

oh, have you been tricked into loving yourself?

[cuuno-moved]

oh my fucking god is that what just happened