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shouting into the void about books and stuff | 23 | she/her

[matineaux-deactivated20260222]

kind of weird how parts of your soul are left in various locations without any warning… like yes i’m always at the top of that hill, sitting at the bus stop, in the cool light of the Japanese restaurant, standing at the pier etc etc

[hi-im-ryn]

[queerliblib]

it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library

[meeliesaysno]

its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times

[ksfoxwald]

The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3

[zo-mb-ie]

and if i said neil josten????

[savethelifeofmychild]

once i read everything on earth then i think ill be prepared to write

[dramatic-dolphin]

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

[hiveswap]

^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.

[ryebreadgf]

once I snorted a fat line of nuance and everything started depending. watch out

[kikmessenger]

sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

[kikmessenger]

skips a stone over a few posts

[fangorn-forest]

mutuals let's sit at the end of the dock and splash our feet in the water while we watch the sunset

[wizardnaturalist]

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

[bloodyhandprint]

sorry to anyone who followed me for anything. you're not getting that

[jtl-fics]

Personally choosing to believe that if Neil ended up on the Ravens instead of going on the run with his mom that within a year he'd have Regina George levels of influence.

He was doing everything in his power to stay hidden with the Foxes and still ended up the vice captain within a year.

Does this ignore all the absolute insane bullshit that absolutely does go on canonically there? Yeah. Do I just want to imagine Neil, Kevin, Riko, and Jean having a lunch table clique, Neil's eyes being insured for 10 million dollars, and them having a burn book (Riko is maybe mildly disappointed that it doesn't involve fire) about Exy players? Also yeah.

[jtl-fics]

I am absolutely enraptured by the mental image of Riko Moriyama as Gretchen Wieners hitting everyone with a:

"I don't think my Uncle, the inventor of Exy, would be too pleased to hear about this."

[exylover32]

i have this theory that jean's big cathartic moment at the end of tgr when he breaks down and admits he didn't deserve the sexual abuse he experienced is actually preceded by a more subtle version of this moment, one made possible by the fact that it involves the only other person who can understand what he's been through. when andrew realizes that neil could have been similarly abused at evermore, he asks jean to confirm or deny it. jean tells him that it would not have been an appropriate punishment for neil, and andrew, clearly shaken and unimpressed with this answer, presses the issue, asking what circumstances would have made it appropriate. it is jean's response to this that i find most revealing: he says, "you of all people should not have to ask." yes, this is a pointed reference to andrew's own experiences with sexual abuse, but what is jean actually saying? i think he's saying, "you of all people should know there is nothing that could possibly justify it. of course there isn't. but your abusers will tell you there is, and you'll believe them because how else can you make sense of what is happening to you." after he says this, jean digs a thumb into andrew's wrist and drags it up his forearm, where he knows from riko that andrew has self-harm scars. this is him driving home the point, saying "you've had to do things to survive too." because that's what jean's deep-seated conviction of "deserving it" is— a survival mechanism. and at the end of tgr, he finally feels safe enough to let it go.

[stixy]

Send him to space

[max-worm]

the foxes giving it their all on just dance and andrew winning simply by sitting on the couch and shaking the wii remote around

[buzztimez]

Nell Josten - the dykeification of a favourite blorbo

I’m a simple lesbian, what can I say?

[diablo-sera-tops]

hey don't cry. blorbo coughing up blood

[dustisus]

andrew spends the entire plane ride home from california asking himself if he could be picked up by jeremy with a lighter. he tries to tell himself that would never work on him, but there’s a flicker of doubt there