karina

morrigan crow #1 defender

[beguines]

Mark Laver, "I'm gonna shine out in the wild silence" / "Everything looks beautiful, when you're young and pretty" / "I may never be unhappy again"

[celebrinienjoyer]

you may be losing the idgaf war but they wouldn't even let me enlist. on account of my poet's temperament.

[coffeepeople]

currently allowing myself the decadent indulgence of believing wholeheartedly in my ability to survive this.

[coffeepeople]

I’m going to live and it’s going to be horrible and awful and wonderful and painful and joyous and like going across monkey bars with a sprained wrist and like drinking a glass of freshly made orange juice and difficult and so damn long. but I’m going to and I’m going to and then I’m going to wake up and survive it all again.

[sadclowncentral]

(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don't, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that's not true. it's the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms

[nevermoorian]

the fourth episode starts with "he had loved her before they went their separate ways" and ends with "he has been loving her ever since he first met her"

[theboookwitch]

Place your bets:

Will Love Next Door have a serial killer subplot?

Yes

No

Voting ended onAug 25, 2024

[dear-ao3]

[x]

[dancinginmyeyes]

the mughals colonized india, therefore india should genocide muslims, the romans colonized palestine, therefore israel should genocide the palestinians, the ottomans colonized kosovo, therefore serbia should genocide kosovar albanians. colonialism isn't an actual ongoing process of exploitation and displacement but actually a grab bag of historical grievances that one may pluck out at their convenience whenever there is an ethnic or religious minority to exterminate. maybe one day denmark will make the dirty swedes atone for colonizing skåne

[2manypdfs]

The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

[wizardjpeg]

you all only hate me because you do not like me and i am mean to you. grow up

[mysharona1987]

[exigencelost]

Okay look. Stephanie Meyer contributed four (4) cool things to the contemporary fantasy genre, which I shall now list here in the hopes of getting it out of my system. In descending order of importance:

1. Writing a story about a girl who wants something. Plot driven by a woman’s (non-vilified) desire. Truly dreadful execution but still a good idea, sort of a literary incarnation of the “he a little confused but he got the spirit” meme.

2. The fact that when Bella becomes a vampire she can still breathe but “there’s no relief tied to the action” which I remember verbatim because it fucking slapped. The idea of human physical sensations being partially defined by our mortality and the sensations still exist after you become undead but your experience of them is fundamentally different because you no longer need any of it? Extremely cool. The closest Meyer came to taking an interesting stance on vampires being dead.

3. Werewolves are immortal but they can literally stop whenever they want. That shit’s hilarious. Curse of immortality who.

4. The fact that vampires don’t sleep or get tired so their communally-raised baby doesn’t have a crib because she is always in someone’s arms. That was extremely cute and there’s a different, better book contained somewhere in that specific concept.

[hugintheraven]

5. Depression being represented by like 6 blank chapters titled with months.

[sadclowncentral]

"if mushrooms are the superior lifeform that really calls the shots on this earth, why haven't they destroyed us yet?" listen to yourself. have we as humans gotten rid of every mountain on the planet just because we are smarter than big rocks? no!! because they don't pose a threat to us. sure some people die rock climbing or skiing and that's tragic but mountains aren't dangerous to us as a global society. do you see where i am going with this. it's your misplaced hubris that makes you think that humankind is worth destroying to a mushroom. we are a part of the mundane landscape on the surface. we pose no threat to the mycelian era. humble yourself

[astrayan]

[msvhs-deactivated20251231]

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

[6thlovelanguage-deactivated2020]

Keith Haring Journals, February 15, 1989

[irtenyev]

when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

[treethymes]

when toni morrison said “i just think goodness is more interesting. evil is constant. you can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. but you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that’s complicated.”

[azbukivedii]

when simone weil said “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

[fairycosmos]

my friend is very confident and free and i always want to know how she does it so once i asked her and she just said “the only difference between me and you is that when people treat you badly you think it’s because there’s something wrong with you but when people treat me badly i think there’s something wrong with them.” scalped