#the lightness

[frankencain]

The Lightness, Emily Temple

[elvenpathed]

It’s 6AM and I barely slept 3 hours.

I therefore allow myself to, once again, crash out while listening to 널 만나러 가 and remind everyone that Yunho found a way to my top 10 most listened to artist on this song alone. No need to explain my love for this song (HIS VOICE IS A DRUG I WILL FOREVER INDULGE IN), it kinda speaks for itself.

[spicethymecontinuums]

if you like Yellowjackets, you might like….

Now that season 3 of Yellowjackets has finished airing, I want to send out a recommendation— if you like Yellowjackets, consider reading The Lightness by Emily Temple

This book has some of the most vivid, creative, and gripping prose I’ve ever read.  

If you liked the complicated relationships and unflinching look at the brutality and beauty of girlhood adolescence, you’ll love this book. If you like Lottie Mathews and enigmatic yet compelling teen girl cult-leaders, you’ll absolutely love one of the main characters in this book. The comparison seems unfair because they’re very much their own stories, but trust me— the Lightness is worth a read. (And criminally underrated.)

It takes place at a “Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls”, in which the witty and deprecating outsider narrator becomes enmeshed in a coven of teen girls whose goal is to teach themselves how to levitate. It’s exactly as wild as it sounds. Though there isn’t any cannibalism, it’s just as gripping and suspenseful as Yellowjackets at its best. 

[chaosisinsane]

I know this is impossible now but

VANAHEIMR SOREN!!

[yearningheart]

It’s strange, the importance we assign to handling things our loved ones have touched, or to revisiting historic scenes, of epic battles or first dates. These are attempts at folding time, at pinning one piece of fabric to another. But time doesn’t work that way, you know. That’s why you feel so empty afterward.

The Lightness, Emily Temple

[pensivegladiola]

The Lightness by Emily Temple

[kafk-a]

I cannot be the only woman who fantasizes, sometimes, about spinning the wheel, driving her car off a cliff. It seems impossible to do, and therefore I long to do it. If only to make a hole in the preordained. If only to do something other than follow along, bumper to bumper, a dutiful mirror, for once in my life. If only to destroy something, even if it is myself.

Emily Temple, from The Lightness