My mind's a mess but I love it nonetheless

[take-some-vampire-money-bro]

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Deadname Remover

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[thorndykes-deactivated20161204]

please stop reblogging sylvia plath poetry 

[thorndykes-deactivated20161204]

For ppl asking why she’s an anti black, anti Semite. She has used the n word and compared her depression to the holocaust

[transwolvie]

Even not counting her poetry her private journals are full of disgusting, overblown antisemitism. She didn’t just use Jewish people for her metaphors, she outright hated them irl and yet decided to use their suffering for her own gain

[foulserpent]

here’s a source with some quotes

[meta-hemeralism-blog]

okay, I’m Jewish and I appreciate this sentiment. and if someone wants to cut out Sylvia Plath, go for it, I get it.

But. by this logic we’d also need to stop reblogging TS Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Shakespeare quotes. Virginia Woolf wrote anti-semetic things in her private journals, too. If you only want to read classic poets who liked Jews and black people, that’s fine, but like. good luck? Sylvia Plath isn’t an exception.

idk. Tumblr’s attitude of “consume nothing problematic” just doesn’t work if you’re part of a group that most culture-creators over the last few centuries have hated by default. For people actually in those groups, it’s not like the only two choices are 1) worship authors who hate you or 2) completely cut the majority of literature out of your life. You learn to read critically and acknowledge flaws where you find them.

anyway, as a Jewish woman, I would much rather see a version of this post that said “please read Sylvia Plath poetry critically because she’s anti black and antisemetic” than just “stop reblogging Sylvia Plath poetry.”

IMO, reblog Sylvia Plath all you want, just not unthinkingly.

[theroguefeminist]

I’m reblogging this now because I’m seeing anti-Virginia Woolf discourse lately due to the antisemitism in her journals and like… as a Jewish person who loves Virginia Woolf’s writing and an English teacher who knows that pretty much every writer of the classics is Problematic just…chill pls

[benevolent-atrophy]

The point isn’t to never consume media that isn’t ideologically pure. That’s never the point. Were that the goal, we would NEVER be able to consume any media. Nothing is ever ideologically pure, especially as time goes on and our social consciousness expands.

We should be telling people instead, “Be critical as you read this person’s work. They held bigoted views. Understand how that is reflected in their work, and be mindful of it. Be critical, be thoughtful”

Compelling others to not engage with something at ALL on ideological grounds is in the same vein as burning books. We should be compelling others to be critical and mindful, not narrow and willfully ignorant.

[antique-scarecrow]

“Understand how it is reflected in their work, and be mindful of it.”

[timegoddess167]

Booom ! No one literature is pure and it is not logical to think one medium is pure. You cannot cancel everything. On the same hand also realize that it is up to you to read and consume their writings or media if you see fit without judgement if you do not support their views about blacks, minorities, etc.

[minerveraminivera]

had a late night study session practicing hiragana 、あいうえお 、I am pretty excited for the rest of it 。it looks so cool！

[minerveraminivera]

PSA

Gowther is trans and the rest of the seven deadly sins are allies and those are straight facts thank you for coming to my Ted talk

[minerveraminivera]

My Life rn

Me,looking at my three (3) friends, pile of books, coffee and music playlist: 🎶 I'm doing better than I ever was 🎶

[minerveraminivera]

I'm constantly stuck between 'life is too short' and 'life can't end soon enough'

On one hand :

I have so much to do, so much to see, so much to feel and be and dream. So much that I think I don't have enough time to experience it all. All the places I have yet to see, all the people I have yet to meet, all the sunsets and sunrises I've yet to witness, all the good music I've yet to hear

On the other hand :

Nothing really matters. Nothing I do can help anyone. There's no reason solid and substantial enough for me to grasp and go with so I'd rather not do anything than do something that doesn't amount to anything in the end. Life doesn't have a reason. I'm sick and tired of it and it can't possibly end soon enough.

[minerveraminivera]

After a whole lot of introspection, I've come to the conclusion that I am, in every sense of the word, literally incapable of holding a grudge.

Like you told me I didn't matter and that you were with me out of a sense of obligation, no problem man, I understand. You used me as a rebound and left me like trash after you got better, good for you, I wish you all the best. You don't like talking to me, even if you did before, I get that and I hope you find someone you can enjoy talking to.

I understand. I accept. I hope for the best. I wish you happiness and peace. And if you ever need anything I have like advise, company, love or anything really, my doors are always open. For all

[minerveraminivera]

Here at last

I've had this Tumblr for a long time now, yet for some reason I never really used it. Lately I've been thinking a lot about a lot of things, people, places and prospects. I've decided to share them here. This'll be like a personal diary, rec-center, playlist blog, studyblr, langblr (sometimes) and basically anything else I want it to be.......