From light to life

You are alive, isn't that enough?. Hi, I am what is considered a young adult, a she and a student. I just post of many things and sometimes drawings I make.

[mothgirlfemme]

"Would you rather use the app? :)" I cannot begin to describe how much I wouldn't

[nooowestayandgetcaught]

lyrawill + sleeping outside together

[nooowestayandgetcaught]

lyrawill + every kiss

[bitchinlyras]

Then Lyra took one of those little red fruits. With a fast-beating heart, she turned to him and said, “Will.”

And she lifted the fruit gently to his mouth.

She could see from his eyes that he knew at once what she meant, and that he was too joyful to speak. her fingers were still at his lips, and he felt them tremble, and he put his own hand up to hold hers there, and then neither of them could look; they were confused; they were brimming with happiness.

Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. Then before they knew how it happened, they were clinging together, blindly pressing their faces toward each other.

The Amber Spyglass, Chapter Thirty-Five: Over the Hills and Far Away (2000) // His Dark Materials, Season Three, Episode Eight: The Botanic Garden (2022)

[kendalls-roy]

Gaia Girace as Lila Cerullo in L’amica geniale: Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta / My Brilliant Friend: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

[teatimeatwinterpalace]

When your mother/mother-in-law is tone deaf and she decides to tag along 💀

[clonazepammer]

The thing about “My brilliant friend” is that both Lenú and Lila are pretty fucked up women with a lot of issues and traumas. They both were raised up in a huge violent environment and basically if you read the novels it’s pretty clear that a very important part of the plot is showing all the different types of violence women are exposed to and how abuse and sexism can adopt different forms and levels, but are always kind of traumatic. So for understand both characters and their decisions it’s essential to remind this. Because for both (yeah, for Lenú too, even if she finally leave the neighborhood and became a middle-class woman) violence is deeply normalized in their way of seeing the world and many attitudes that the reader/viewer may find scandalous, for them are normal.

On the other hand, it is important to understand that Ferrante does not create characters to be liked or friendly. Except for Enzo (because Enzo is a saint) all the characters in the novels/series with any relevance have profoundly negative aspects. They all have selfish, narcissistic attitudes or do things that harm others. Even "positive" or "friendly" characters can be very unpleasant (Pasquale is a good example) This is something that is seen right away with Lila, who sometimes has very machiavellian and terrible attitudes (or maybe it is just Lenú exaggerating things, but I genuinely believe that Lila -at least in her youth- could become very horrible) and of course it happens with Lenú. Lenú is not a kind narrator or a sympathetic protagonist. This is something that is not noticed at first because all her self-centeredness is justified by being a self-conscious teenager. But when Lenú leaves the neighborhood and starts a life that her friends can't even dream of, a life full of opportunities, a life that she continues to despise because she thinks that Lila (her friend who has been mistreated, who doesn't have a penny and who is labor exploited) continues to live great adventures while she continues to be an insignificant observer, there we begin to realize how terribly narcissistic Lenú can be and the lack of total empathy that she sometimes shows. But you also have to understand how Lenú's mind works. Lenú was always someone he watched, who lived life through Lila. Lila is the practical, she is the part that reacts, that is pragmatic. Lenú is the emotional part, all of it is repressed emotions that constantly consume her. She is the world of overflowing ideas and feelings. Lenú continues to see Lila (even when they are both already thirty) as the teenager who ate up the world and could do anything. She has a very childish view of her friendship, stuck in the time of their adolescence. And that happens with everything, it also happens with love. Lenú tends to idealize situations and people, that's why she is totally consistent as a character with what happens with Nino. For her Nino is a childhood dream, it always has been. And she doesn't care what she's heard about him or is aware that he's a piece of shit. For her, Nino is still the boy she liked when she was little, just like Lila is the friend with whom she read books and played with dolls. Lenú's tragedy is that she achieves everything that Lila would have wanted to achieve if she had the opportunity, but she idealized her friend so much since she was little that his mind still thinks that Lila is the one who has the upper hand. The friendship between the two is tragic and beautiful at the same time. Terribly complex, like themselves. Throwing hate at these two characters makes no sense. They are not good or bad, they are just survivors.

[notoriouslydevious]

Arcane Caitlyn by Zheanhmeart

[uservillanelle]

❝ ʏᴏᴜ ꜱᴇᴇ ᴛʜɪꜱ ʟᴏᴏᴋ ᴏɴ ᴍʏ ꜰᴀᴄᴇ? ❞ VI in ARCANE Season 1 (2021)

[dreamingpartone]

a lil’ HP au as my @hdmholidayexchange gift for @spainkitty — I had some fun and kinda combined a couple of the prompts, so I hope you like it! happy holidays & here’s to a wonderful new year!!

[sosuperawesome]

Solar System Embroidery Art

Ophelie Trichereau on Etsy

[mental-ch-illness]

me @ me: please do your fucking homework

me: no homework only sad

[startdusttide]

Is so freaking hard to be in a relationship. Like you have all your problems and it just becomes clearer and clearer all the deficiencies you have. Even if you partner doesn't give you a hard time because of them, you know them. And you are just so sad that you have them.

[startdusttide]

Everything is so hard. Wake up. Eat. Prepare food. Earn a living. Enjoy little things. Smile. Laugh.

Everything

Is

So

Hard

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 28 January 1917, Carmelita Torres, a 17-year-old Mexican maid who worked in the United States, refused to take the mandatory gasoline bath given to day labourers at the border, and convinced 30 other trolley passengers to join her. Her protest spread in what became known as the bath riots. Torres was one of many workers who crossed the border between Juarez and El Paso each day. In the name of public health, Mexican workers were frequently subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment. They had to strip naked, brave, undergo a toxic gasoline bath, and have their clothes steamed. The stated aim of the programme was to kill lice, which can spread typhus. However, it was not applied to everyone crossing the border: just working class Mexicans. In addition to gasoline being poisonous, it was also a deadly fire risk. A group of prisoners in El Paso being treated with gasoline were burned to death in an accidental fire. Furthermore, US health workers were secretly photographing naked Mexican women. On January 28, anger at the practice finally exploded, and within a few hours Torres had amassed a crowd of several thousand mostly women protesters. They blocked all traffic and trolleys into El Paso. They pelted immigration officers with rocks and bottles when they try to disperse them, and when US and then Mexican troops arrived they received the same treatment. The riots were eventually suppressed by the soldiers, and Torres herself was arrested. This appeared to have the effect of discouraging future protests. The enforced bathing and fumigation of Mexican workers with toxic chemicals like gasoline, and later DDT and Zyklon B, continued until the 1950s. The use of Zyklon B at the border appealed to scientists in Nazi Germany, who in the late 1930s began using the agent at borders and in concentration camps for delousing. Although notoriously they later used it to exterminate millions of people in the Holocaust. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1640236589494818/?type=3

[infjadvice]

Credit: Ashley McMinn

[susiethemoderator]

I reblogged this earlier today and i honestly have to reblog it again because AGAIN my mom did some selfish and passive aggressive and she’s trying to feign oblivious innocence.

I needed to read this again.. and AGAIN and AGAIN.

[skrytch]

To quote the old song

“If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.”

[daisyannewinchester]

I only see women into his but it can also me boys. So this is for everyone. You wont live with your parents forever. I’m sending you sl the love

[snek-snacc-two-the-sequel]

Low key kinda needed this

[raedas]

I (thankfully) have a good relationship with my parents but reblogging this for anyone who needs it!!

[startdusttide]

Today, after many years I thought about killing myself again. My life is not that bad, I am not living on the streets, I am not passing hunger. I am in a loving relationship. So I ask myself what's wrong? Am I? Why it seems like I am never strong enough? Never enough. Why it always seems like I am in pursuit of something I do not want? That I do not need. But it seems that what I am pursuing is life itself.

I am just to tired.

I really just want to finish all and go sleep l. Sleep without dreams.