The stories that stay with us forever

She/Her (demigirl), asexual (ace of hearts), autistic, writer and fangirl

[zeelady2004]

It's time for Tiktok video of the day from my stash 🎶

Heh

[cryoverkiltmilk]

"Amore! [derogatory]"

[everydayarsonist]

credit where credit is due, he didn’t fall for it. i was 100% expecting him to make shit up but he knew what he was talking about.

[lesveeanism]

Insane how the dynamic between the wicked fairy and the princess in sleeping beauty has many varieties.

We got "barely interacted"

mother and daughter figure

"you stole my fucking boyfriend"

potentially doomed yuri

and doomed brotherhood!

[yonaswarrior]

The power of the public domain

[fakecrfan]

There are few delights in the world like having a friend start to read Jane Eyre for the first time and then as they are commenting on it you slowly realize that they don't know. They don't know Rochester's deal.

This is like the literary equivalent of meeting someone who doesn't know Darth Vader is Luke's father.

So they go "I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with this relationship! Yeah he's older and there is a class/power difference but he clearly respects her as a person and it's so refreshing!" and you just cackle, cackle, cackle behind your screen until the inevitable day you get this message.

Everyone congratulate my friend @anonymoustypewriter, they just found out one of literature's biggest 100+ year old shock twists authentically without anyone spoiling it for them.

[lilstinky-deactivated20221002]

sci fi is about one thing and one thing only.....actors throwing themselves around a room to simulate the ship being hit

[remainsingrey-deactivated202405]

[crystalsoulslayer]

[randomgermancupcake]

[thelovelygods]

[aaatinaaaa]

I miss peak playchoices so much. I remember staying up to play It lives, Perfect Match, and Open Heart and then immediately going on tumblr to talk about it. Watching it get infested with AI and dying a slow death has been so painful

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

oh wait just realized i can edit my own posts.

like you can't edit reblogs anymore but you can still edit your own post even after it has a thousand notes or whatever.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

i have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

[depsidase]

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

jeez. sorry you didn't like it.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

it is very interesting to see the language of contemporary book criticism co-opted by Christian Nationalists to remove books from classrooms and libraries.

One recent example: My novel Turtles All the Way Down was banned from being taught in English classes because one school board member claimed it "romanticizes mental illness."

(It does no such thing, of course. TAtWD makes mental illness seem really unpleasant and not at all either lowercase-r or capital-r romantic. To acknowledge something's existence is not to romanticize that thing. But part of co-opting this language is misusing it for the end of removing books thematically centered on mental illness, or physical illness, or sex, or anything else that might be deemed insufficiently inocuous for Educational Literature.)

But the question of when writing about something veers into romanticizing it IS actually a very important question for contemporary literary criticism, and one that's been explored a lot (sometimes with generosity and care, sometimes not) in book discourse online. So the Christian Nationalist Right is using the language of analysis that we are using in ways that are at best misguided and at worst disingenuous.

It's really discouraging--I mean, on a personal level obviously but also just as an American who believes teachers should be allowed to teach--to see such widespread book bans in American high schools and libraries. But it's not surprising, really. Books retain a lot of power--to deepen our empathy with those who are suffering, to connect us to ourselves and to others, and to see the full humanity of those who might be dehumanized or marginalized by the social order.

On that front, the Christian Nationalists are right to worry. Books can be a path into loving one's neighbor as one's self, and seeing the full light of the sacred in the experiences of the marginalized. God forbid.

[sophsun1]

Holes (2003) dir. Andrew Davis

[mshfar2a]

I don't like to admit it, but sometimes I actually miss John Green.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

Sometimes I can almost hear him.

[gifs-by-renegadesstuff]

EVIE COOPER & DESHAWN JACKSON ❤️

↳ NCIS: SYDNEY | 3.20 “Killer”

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+ bonus:

MICHELLE MACKEY & JIM 'JD' DEMPSEY ❤️

↳ NCIS: SYDNEY | 3.20 “Killer”

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MICHELLE MACKEY & JIM 'JD' DEMPSEY ❤️

↳ NCIS: SYDNEY | 3.19 “Hunter”

[marveldaily]

LOKI (2021)

[koala2all]

My dear friend Johnathan Harker has begun his lovely food blog as he travels through the countryside of Transylvania. Hope his journey is smooth and his business concludes swiftly!