[noah-wyles]

i hope february is kind to you. i hope it's a balm to the horrors that was january. i hope it embraces you in a warmth that feels like a warm blanket on a cold dark day. i hope it brings you love and bliss.

[wetheurban]

I hope February feels gentler to you than January did.

[sadclowncentral]

(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don't, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that's not true. it's the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms

[389]

[kosmogrl]

I hope november is kind to all of us

[wolfythewitch]

This too shall pass but like holy fuck

[samspicturesandwords]

I just saw a Palestinian holding the headless body of a child in Rafah, in front of smoke and flames. This is what the ethno-nationalist ideology of Zionism has lead to. This is what western-backed, racist, genocidal imperialism looks like - a man holding a limp, headless child.

[stargirldotcom]

-despite everything, there is still love

@arthoesunshine/ @artsheila/ @daisies-on-a-cup/ @gayarsonist / @hjarta/ @yunawinter on twitter/ @bakwaaas/ @death-born-aphrodite/ anon on gentleearth/ @classicnymph on twitter

[hungryfictions]

the concept for this list was: fifty books written by women about women, published within the past five years, (2017-now), that aren’t normal people and whatever else sally rooney just released. i also tried to avoid anything that gave explicitly rooney vibes. (here is why.) i stuck mostly with realism, though some have elements of fantasy or magic or horror. if you have questions about triggers for any particular book feel free to reach out.

Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi*

Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong

Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet*

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood*

All’s Well by Mona Awad*

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett*

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson*

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata*

The Push by Audrey Audrain

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch

Weather by Jenny Offill

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

The Comeback by Ella Berman

The Farm by Joanne Ramos

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

Writers & Lovers by Lily King*

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Supper Club by Lara Williams

Vacuum in the Dark by Jen Beagin

In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado*

Severance by Ling Ma

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

Lurkers by Sandi Tan

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Edie Richter is Not Alone by Rebecca Handler

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Betty by Tiffany McDaniel*

The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Ordinary Girls: A Memoir by Jaquira Díaz

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland

Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin

My Life as a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates*

Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng*

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Penance by Kanae Minato*

Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito

a note: this list is obviously limited to books that i have either personally read or know a lot about.

* means the author has other good books that i know of, i just didn’t want to repeat any authors

[a-study-in-bullshit]

"I love you , I'm glad we're friends"

[campcomputers]

[fandom-trash-goblin]

a girl of fear, a woman of anger— look how we've grown

girls contain multitudes, heather o'neill / king, florence + the machine / The Affront (L'affronto), by Antonio Piatti / In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado / this pin / cassandra, florence + the machine / What If This Were Enough?: Essays by Heather Havrilesky) / crush, richard siken / the closest thing i could find was this soundcloud link / a womans beauty, susan sontag / a vision of fiammetta, dante gabriel rossetti / stop me, natalia kills / fury, yevgeny yevtushenko

everyone say god bless you to @pe4rl-diver for the sources

[lucidloving]

D. Alan Holmes, Enlightenment // Signet Amenti // @cryptonature // Alan Wilsom Watts // Evan M. Cohen, "Oceans" // Nikita Gill // @pauladoodles // Julian Gough, "Minecraft End Poem" // Sleeping At Last—Saturn

[lelif]

On Love and Community

@princes-heels // ? // @inkskinned // mitski, my love mine all mine//@littlespoonsokka // @boymiffy // @2aminhouston // ? // @theviralwitch // @noodle // @criterioncollectiongirl // @fatsoupy // ? // @mjalti // george saunders, congratulations, by the way// @jb-blunk // @ponchopeligroso // @headspace-hotel // everything, everywhere, all at once(2022) //@cheruib // ? // ? // @tordenvejr

[peachyyykat]

kaveh akbar, 'calling a wolf a wolf' // doc luben, 'love letters or suicide notes' // @/nutnoce, tumblr // 'my body's made of crushed little stars', mitski // @/ojibwa, tumblr // 'spring', mary oliver

[foxeia]

Sara Kaye

[lunamonchtuna]

— Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters