i am ribbons under you

i will the world bend for my mad need’s madder campaign. she/they.

[shisasan]

Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf (1927)

[sorceryhounds-deactivated202603]

Stars and roses

[rottentotems]

All the Lovers in the Night, Mieko Kawakami

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All the Lovers in the Night, Mieko Kawakami

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Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

[tlirsgender]

Things people hate hearing:

You are capable of harm

You have some level of power and agency

Ergo it is your responsibility to communicate your needs and boundaries

If you lie to someone about something being okay when it isn't, that is on you

Something being a trauma response doesn't exempt it from harming your relationships and the other people in them

Enabling your trauma responses will not make them go away, and it is your responsibility to work on yourself for your own wellbeing as well as the people around you

Being A Victim cannot be a pillar of your identity forever, and being victimized does not make you incapable of harming other people (see above)

You are not a mouse in a jean jacket you are an eel with a gun / adult human being who can use your words even if it's Scary

Having a personality disorder doesn't make you evil but you have got to get off of Personality Disorder Tumblr (see above, re: enabling)

[tlirsgender]

Deep sigh. You want me to ~be compassionate~ here's the compassionate answer: your trauma will tell you you're a helpless child forever and you need to Not Think This Way for yourself (living under the assumption you're still in danger whether you actually are or not) and everyone else who has to tiptoe around your Sensitivity. That's how you break the cycle and you can only do this by accepting responsibility for your actions. And it seems like a small semantic thing but imo step one is calling yourself a survivor instead of a victim. Self identifying with your victimhood helps No One. You lived, now get up

[rottentotems]

Oranges are the only fruit, Jeanette Winterson

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Shoko's Smile, Choi Eunyoung.

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Oranges are not the only fruit, Jeanette Winterson

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Oranges are the only fruit, Jeanette Winterson

[theweight]

black turtleneck… save me..

black turtleneck

save me black turtleneck

[sentimentalbeing2001]

[shisasan]

9 October, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[saimusage]

Martha Brown, the loyal servant of the Brontë family revealed to a parsonage visitor about Charlotte Brontë's situation after her two younger sisters Emily and Anne died from consumption. The Brontë sisters used to walk around the dining table at night to discuss and share ideas about writing the plot for their novels.

[rottentotems]

Mr. Salary, Sally Rooney

[mournfulroses]

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

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Mr. Salary, Sally Rooney