Flicks, Fiction, and Frivolities

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[wrotten]

there’s a very specific aesthetic i’m going for on this blog and it’s called cool things i like

[yms1]

I love days when it feels easy to find beauty in everything

[rozieramati]

How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong

[winged-thinged]

You have to let people love you. You have to let people get to know you. You have to let people help you. Being so completely selfless that you try to erase yourself off the face of the planet and never ask for anything and reject everybody's offers of support makes you very hard to love! Unfortunately. Emptying yourself out of everything that makes you, you is not actually what your loved ones want from you, generally. They want to make you happy! They will be so so sad if you don't give them the chance. It's not all selfish. I promise.

[silverystardustt]

the books I’ve read all make up the tiny pieces of my soul; to read them is to read into my heart

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Olive Higgins Prouty written c. 1950, featured in The Collected Letters

[emliyarmstrong]

OFF CAMPUS 1.02 “The Practice”

[fairycosmos]

why is it so hard for people to grasp that disabilities disable and chronic illnesses are chronic. yes even when it inconveniences you. yes even when your patience runs out

[thequietesthing]

i need you all to hear me!!!!! i don’t care!!!!!! i don’t care if it’s different from the books, if they changed some scenes, if some were missing, if others were added!!!!!!!!! i don’t care!!!!!!!!!!!! it made me giggle and blush (iykyk) and laugh and be sad and everything in between!!!!!!!!!! it has been sooooo loooong since a tv/movie adaptation has made me feel exactly like reading the book has!!!!!!!!!!! i love it!!!!!!!!!

[nixscriptum]

[theorangepdf]

i have good taste except when i don’t but when i don’t it’s in a sexy way

[robotclefairy]

2026 zutara crumbs, don't ask me anything about the plot

[beggars-opera]

Just lost a few braincells reading an nyt article about gen z "treat culture" and I can't even fathom that this is a thing. We're living in a dystopian hellscape where someone spending $5 a week on a cookie is considered a wasteful brat because they should have just gone for a nice free walk instead and saved the $250 a year that roughly equals four days' rent. That's why these ungrateful kids can't buy a house, naturally.

I am ALL for free treats, like hiking or reading in the park. But at some point you can't budget your way out of poverty, and you will literally go mad if you deny yourself basic pleasures that are literally all around you. They even lamented that little treats could snowball into doing something absolutely unforgivable like learning how to play the guitar or buying concert tickets.

At what point do we just start saying out loud that living an enjoyable and fulfilling life is now only acceptable at a 100k+ salary, and if you're one of the millions of people unlucky enough not to be in that category you should just eat dirt and be grateful?

[demonprincex]

it's literally millennial avocado toast bullshit all over again, but with nary a pause in between them.

[littlethingwithfeathers]

Yep. They did this to us millennials too. And probably Gen X before us. Don't fall for it. Push back.

[cardassiangoodreads]

I think this is true but I do think that it has also become increasingly easy to live beyond your means, with things like "Buy Now, Pay Later," and that a lot of Internet "self-care" culture has increasingly become about specifically buying products for that purpose - including communities where accumulating products is seen as proof of passion. Think about haul videos, think about how many fandoms have made accumulating limited-edition merch into a form of prestige, think about the existence of gatcha games using techniques from gambling that are designed to get people addicted and thinking less when they press a button to spend money, think about the normalization of sports gambling even! I've met people personally who have taken this "self care is spending sprees and no one can tell you to stop" so to heart that they are regularly buying concert tickets and expensive trips they objectively can't afford while begging friends to pay their rent for them. Hell, I went through a big chunk of my 20s and early 30s doing shit like that! (Well, not on that level, but impulse buying little shit that added up over time, and then begging other people for money when it meant I ran out for necessities.)

Two things can be true at once: a) older generations are insensitive to the broader structural issues that keep millennials and Gen Z out of poverty and demonize them for relatively inexpensive hobbies and b) the Internet and the apps have made it increasingly easy to spend money on things you don't need without thinking too much about it, to thinking things that are actually debt traps are great deals, and to a population without great financial literacy.

Cara Nicole's videos (she is Gen Z herself) are a great resource on financial literacy that target a lot of the specific ways that the Internet goes after financially-insecure young people, without demonizing her peers for their interests. Even when she was asked to "deinfluence" a really expensive fursuit she tried, as a non-furry, to be as nonjudgmental as possible. You can watch them here:

Cara Nicole

Hey there! I'm Cara, and I make videos about money, media, and intentional living. My goal is to share accessible financial education while

[allsadnshit]

Keeping an alive tumblr in 2026 is proof of one's sincerity and authenticity - a type of person who enjoys posting for the sake of it with absolutely nothing to be gained....just the enjoyment of curation and self expression untainted by opportunity and relevance

[metamorphesque]

— James Baldwin, They Can’t Turn Back

[ryebreadgf]

real yearners miss shit that never even happened

[kabigon143]

The beautiful thing as you get older is that you realize so many “rules” are made up and you can just do whatever. Posters can go anywhere in the house not just my room. I can sit down while cooking a meal or taking a shower. I can make the same thing for breakfast lunch dinner for a week straight. I can roam around the house shirtless. I can wear a dress with jeans. The world is my oyster key word my and I can live as I please embracing little things such as this