[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Writer’s Diary”

[neenarchive]

i love you films without sequels i love you limited series i love you stand alone novels i love you self-contained stories

[shesnake]

too much "this character did something bad" talking about fictional characters like they're autonomous entities and not enough "why have the writers made this character do the bad thing and how does it contribute to the overall plot and themes?"

[eriebasin]

Early 1900s Oyster Pendant, Gold and Pearl

[littlebunnygf-deactivated202207]

Cluttered kitchens my beloved <3

[fairycosmos]

crazy how much ppl do not care that you are literally losing your mind if you are a quiet woman who doesn’t inconvenience others much

[fairycosmos]

had a snack and realized this sounds very jokerfied but i am literally right

[fairycosmos]

oh this post got annoying soooo quick lol. “how are people supposed to help you if you don’t speak up” how about learn to understand the way neurodivergence and mental illness often presents itself in young girls and women with the same care and attention we give to men and boys who have violent breakdowns that are immediately attributed to their mental heath issues 

[sawasawako-archived]

“Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element. Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing. Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing.”

– Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

[exhaled-spirals]

— Will Rees, “Kafka the hypochondriac”

[smokefalls]

“Most of the time, we think that love means just accepting the other person as they are. Who among us has not learned the hard way that we cannot change someone, mold them and make them into the ideal beloved we might want them to be. Yet when we commit to true love, we are committed to being changed, to being acted upon by the beloved in a way that enables us to be more fully self-actualized. This commitment to change is chosen. It happens by mutual agreement. Again and again in conversations the most common vision of true love I have heard shared was one that declared it to be ‘unconditional.’ True love is unconditional, but to truly flourish it requires an ongoing commitment to constructive struggle and change.”

—

bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

[burningmine-deactivated20230217]

Dirty Harry’s Peak, October 2020

[balkansoul-deactivated20220924]

me and my humanities mutuals. hand in unemployable hand

[sweatermuppet]

please be patient with me i am experiencing horrors unknown to you at all times

[wvterways]

life really is so simple when you sit back and realise you don’t actually have to do a lot of things. i don’t have to be on my phone constantly. i don’t have to sit inside all day. i don’t have to reply to peoples messages straight away. i don’t have to have what’s in my fridge. i can go out and get groceries and make things that I’m craving. i can go on a walk. i can turn my phone off for a day or two. i can sit and read for hours on end. i can journal for as long as i want. i can mediate. i can cook. i can clean. i can breathe deeply. i can get myself a tea or a coffee. i can have meaningful conversations with my family. i don’t have to be in a constant state of “online”. i can disconnect. I’m not obliged to be here. my name isn’t being called out on a list. i can leave. i can take time away. i am allowed to live.

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

tired of the whole movement that’s people saying ’i read 200 books in a year’ and reading as a means of boasting and hardcover books being bought and never read after the instagram picture and most booktubers reading and recommending the same books and poorly written books selling fast because they have pretty covers and tropes people like and authors on twitter being afraid to say anything serious out of fear of being divisive and the whole let people enjoy things dialogue every time someone expresses that they think something is written shittily as is their god given right to form an opinion as a reader without randos on the internet taking it personally because OMG someone else didn’t agree that this book is good!? TIME TO ESCALATE THINGS TO RIDICULOUS LEVELS 😤😤😤 and also i’m tired of book influencers setting up this false dichotomy between victorian classics or modern pulpy romcoms while vastly ignoring the existence of classics written by people of colour and people from non first world countries

[sproutlett]

if you’re not paying attention to trees and how they sway in the wind then what are you even doing

[redlipstickresurrected]

Thomas Zakowski (American, based South Bend, IN, USA) - Twisted, 2012, Ice-covered lighthouse, St. Joseph North Pier on the coast of Lake Michigan, Photography

[tibby]

on one hand i get the “there’s always been bad movies this isn’t new” mentality because yeah, of course there’s always been bad art. that’s just how content creation works. but there is a huge difference between Bad Movies then and Bad Movies now. because if we’re going to define “bad movies” by stuff like poor storytelling, mediocre acting, lazy editing, shock and plot twists valued over a coherent narrative, etc etc…then like. let’s be honest with ourselves. the bad movies of today are the ones dominating the box office and making it near impossible for anything else to get made. bad movies are everywhere and are drowning out a lot of good movies and that’s the problem, combined with this mentality that we’re not even allowed to criticise shit anymore. you can’t call ANY movie bad without some clown being like “ummmm let people enjoy things” and film criticism has turned into a collection of people raised on fandom who think their personal opinion is an objective fact so bad movies get to keep being made and keep being shoved in our faces and keep sucking the soul out of the industry. bad movies back in the day were shit like “the toxic slime creature” which like five people have seen and was made on a budget of ten dollars and absolutely sucks but at least the creators had fun with it and could actually go out and make a movie and put it into the world. bad movies now are fucking dr strange. like it is absolutely not the same.

[killtheteendream]

“The bad movies of today are the ones dominating the box office” is the problem in a nutshell. Look at a breakdown of the highest earning films for each year in the 50s, 60s or 70s and it’s night and day compared to now.