i know a lot of people didn’t like the first kiss but my take on that scene is that when ur will solace and ur just a kid and your boyfriend is catastrophizing in the face of horrific grief that is triggering unspeakable trauma that has him sliding back to a dark place and you’re a healer and you’re used to fixing things but you know you can’t make this better but you need him to know you’re here for him and you love him and you’re not going to leave him and you’re serious about that and the best way you can think to show him that is to kiss him for the first time then that’s kinda beautiful 🤷
(and then nico going on to associate kisses with soothing pain bc of how many times he kisses will to reassure him)
i really liked it.
and that’s why i’m gonna draw a comic of it 😘
i know there's people saying if you have procrastination issues you should really work on them so you don't fuck yourself over but unfortunately the universe keeps letting me get away with it scot-free every single time and for as long as that's happening i will keep doing it. may the world continue holding me like a baby
Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; “The Fear”
in general i agree that encouraging unsourced twitter hysteria is a bad thing but there is absolutely a media blackout happening in ohio rn and posting links to the occasional news article about it doesnt necessarily disprove that. this is a major, entirely man-made and preventable environmental catastrophe that should be plastered across the news 24/7 but that didnt even get 10 minutes of weekend coverage on the most “left” liberal channels like pbs. this shit is being actively sidelined by alien balloon hysteria bc it’s a direct result of the conditions rail workers were set to strike over until the millionaire railroad bosses colluded with biden and congress to forcibly prevent them from doing so. the fact that people in east palestine are being told everything is safe and fine while fish float up dead in their rivers and streams is not invention or overstatement. meanwhile buttigieg still hasnt said shit about any of this and apparently has no plans to reinstate baseline safety regulations to prevent this from happening again in the future.
You know a piece of media is special when it's in your top 5 but you wouldn't recommend it to a single other person
I don't even remember what brought me to tumblr originally, tbh.
(I think I came here because LJ imploded under the Russians)
I don’t remember how I got here, but in 2010, I think that was back when Tumblr thought it was going to be Vertical Flickr.
“Writers are among the most sensitive, the most intellectually anarchic, most representative, most probing of artists. The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. The languages they use and the social and historical context in which these languages signify are indirect and direct revelations of that power and its limitations.”
– Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992)
i think i've been tagged in the "nine books you want to read in 2023" thing a few times but i lost track of who tagged me...im sowwy. anyway here are my picks
these are just the first that come to mind, either because i've already downloaded them or because i've been particularly curious about the subject matter: the membranes by chi ta-wei; last words from montmartre by qiu miaojin; psychopolitics by byung chul han; abolish the family: a manifesto for care and liberation by sophie lewis; the body in pain: the making and unmaking of the world by elaine scarry; labyrinths: selected stories and other writings by jorge luis borges; kalpa imperial by algelica gorodischer; if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino; how europe underdeveloped africa by walter rodney
i'm not gonna tag anyone because im shy </3
lets talk about her actually!