Eve Starling

Just a literary whore (she/her)

[musingsfromeve]

I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me.

Christa Wolf, from Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays

[sprnklersplashes]

"we need more complex female characters" you guys could barely handle lorelai gilmore being slightly uncomfortable around her parents after going through years of subtle emotional abuse in their house

[musingsfromeve]

If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go and hide in the closet for three or four hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

Heather O'Neill, from Lullabies for Little Criminals

[musingsfromeve]

Now, do not misunderstand me;

when I call myself a shell

I mean-a used up bullet casing.

As in, the aftermath of something lethal.

As in, an echo of inflicted evil.

Amrita C.

[kwistowee]

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[musingsfromeve]

I don't know where I get the courage to keep on living in the midst of these ruins. Let us love each other to the end.

George Sand in a letter to Gustave Flaubert, 27 June 1870

[crystallizedtwilight]

People I met for a few moments that live in my head forever.

[biocrafthero]

Babe are you okay? You reblogged crystallizedtwilight’s Strangers that live with me forever. again

[catchymemes]

[musingsfromeve]

It's a fitting punishment for a monster.

To want something so much - to hold it in your arms - and know beyond a doubt you will never deserve it.

Renee Ahdieh, from The Wrath and the Dawn

[musingsfromeve]

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

This may be me at my best.

Kaveh Akbar, from Calling A Wolf A Wolf: Poems; “Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)"

[ashstfu]

born to love forced to grieve

[ashstfu]

[lady-averie]

This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

[author-a-holmes]

I just had a debate with myself over using the word mezzanine, wondering if I should describe it instead. Ultimately I decided the character would call it a mezzanine, and therefore readers could look up a new word if they didn't know.

It's how I learned words like myriad as a seven year old reading Lord of the Rings for the first time, why would I steal that experiance from someone else by simplifying language?

[headspace-hotel]

I don't know about y'all, but books are how i know my vocabulary in the first place

[autumn-imara-deactivated2023120]

“Children don’t need to earn their humanity. Children aren’t humans in training, they are humans right now. They’re not waiting to live their life, this is part of their life in this moment. Society treats children as though they’re preparing for a time where they’re allowed respect – and not before then. Until that time it’s acceptable to treat them as sub-human under the guise of parenting and education. For many, parenting is synonymous with punishment and learning is synonymous with schooling which are both so far off the mark. This all comes down to childism and it is so deeply sewn into the fabric our society. So much so that talking about it creates such cognitive dissonance that I know I’ll get defensive, even angry comments sharing these thoughts. People who genuinely respectfully parent and speak up for the injustices towards kids are so often ridiculed. Like I’ve said in the past, I don’t want to be viewed as a ‘good parent’ by a society that thinks so little of children.”

— How Many Well Intentioned People Dehumanise Children | Racheous

[musingsfromeve]

When I pray I feel as if my four walls can't even hear me

- Samara Faith Norris, 'Sincerely, A Sinner'

[musingsfromeve]

Isn't it ironic, perhaps even cruel that the most intimate of things feel satisfactory only when you experience them alone; the only way you experience ecstasy is when everything else is melancholic

- @anelaboratecosmicjoke

[spiteandmytears]

Thank you for the tag @delicatetaylorsversion ♡

Everytime you get tagged you add your current favourite song to the playlist and then tag 5 other people to do it

Tagging @louisbff @wtnytv @taylorswiftaylor @staystaystaylorsversion @ohh-goddamn

[zouisbreakup]

thank you for tagging me @spiteandmytears <3

everytime you get tagged you add your current favourite song to the playlist and then tag 5 other people to do it

tagging: @crankydee, @princetomlinson, @just-another-multifangirl, @bfjacketmybeloved, @orangesunbeam

[greeneyesfriedrice]

thank u @louisbff ily

everytime you get tagged you add your current favorite song to the playlist and then tag 5 other people to do it

i am tagging @rainblou @whaleharry @farawaytatmybeloved @avocadolouis28 and @purpleflicker

[heartshaped-lou]

thanks laur!! <3

everytime you get tagged you add your current favorite song to the playlist and then tag 5 other people to do it

@niall-harry @thosefookinavacados @ddeerr @loulovehome @tanktop-lou if you want to!!

[loulovehome-deactivated20220122]

thank you to my lovely @farawaytatmybeloved and @purpleflicker for tagging me !!

everytime you get tagged you add your current favorite song to the playlist and then tag 5 other people to do it

tagging @louzhan @justalarryblog @marrltt @tanktop-lou and anyone who wants to do this (just continue this thread !)

[tanktop-lou]

@loulovehome @avocadolouis28 @farawaytatmybeloved thank you all for tagging me <3

everytime you get tagged you add your current favorite song to the playlist and then tag 5 other people to do it

(This is my current favorite song but I've been listening to this song for years, just rediscovered it)

Tagging @moonelust @hearyouhowling @louismyantidote @larryinfinitylt @angeliclouismybeloved

[0x1-home]

Hiii ty Clauu <3

everytime you get tagged you add your current favorite song to the playlist and then tag 5 other people to do it

I absolutely adore this song, it makes me break in tears but what the hell <33 Tagging @ladychlo @holyshit @laurelier @adoreinbloom

aannd @idontknowwhatitshouldbecalled if you want

[idontknowwhatitshouldbecalled-d]

thank you @angeliclouismybeloved 💞

everytime you get tagged you add your current favorite song to the playlist and then tag 5 other people to do it

I am tagging @larrysballetslippers @thelastfunctioningbraincell @imaynotbecoolbutimfriendly @scrambled-eggg and @ anybody who wants

[thelastfunctioningbraincell]

Thanks for the tag 💙💙

No pressure ✌️

@malfoytookmyheart @nerdyfuntheorist @shadowhunting-hooligans @noah-herondale-lightwood @like-we-are-made-of-starlightt14 @fandomsandmess @justanormaldemon @mentally-unstable-fangirl @fangirlinindia @fangirl2o20 @anyone

[angel-of-fallen-dreams]

Thank you!!

@the-purple-duck @battleofbunkerhill @chaotic-coexistence @fandom-but-chaotic @anyone

[viere]

Thanks for the tag @dreams-of-blood-and-books <3

Tagging @scarletblakeney @theleechwhodrinksbleach @queen-asteria04 @lqdyofroses @i-think-i-can-speak-here @and anyone else who wants to :)

[classicallychaotick-deactivated]

Thanks for the tag @chaotic-coexistence

Tagging @etheralcreature @musingsfromeve @ anyone else

[musingsfromeve]

Thanks for the tag @theleechwhodrinksbleach

Tagging @ anyone who wants to :)

[musingsfromeve]

nothing ever ends poetically. it ends and we turn it into poetry. all that blood was never once beautiful. it was just red.

- kait rokowski