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something something fatness (and more broadly being conventionally unattractive) and feeling not only completely invisible to romantic attention but also like a monster. like something disgusting and horrible and monstrous. feeling like every extra inch of space you take up is unwelcome and strips more and more of your humanity

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We should change the definition of Mary sue from “flawless character” to “character who the narrative refuse to admit is flawless”

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When you become 20 something, you have to forgive yourself or you will never grow up. You have to forgive yourself for everything and learn from it.

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send anti-recommendations. sick of seeing which books i should read. please send books that i should not read at any cost. lengthy explanations necessary and appreciated

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Wild Geese // Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

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I Worried

by Mary Oliver

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it?

Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better?

Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am, well, hopeless.

Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia?

Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And I gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

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richard siken ‘does this remind you of something? yes - the world is good and we belong here’ + florence welch ‘you remind me that it’s such a wonderful thing to love’ + mary oliver ‘it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world’

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“Your silence furnishes a dark house. But even at the risk of burning, the moth always seeks the light.”

— Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X 

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Harry Prenen - Schedel

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put “top 5” anything in my ask and i will answer ok go

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ask a bookworm!

what are you currently reading?

how many books have you read this year?

how have your reading tastes changed from when you were a child?

physical book or e-book?

where do you love to read?

what is your ideal reading atmosphere? background noise or silent? alone or with others?

are you a writer?

what was your very first baby book?

what was the first book you read on your own?

how many books have you read in total?

what has been the longest gap between books?

what are your favourite genres?

what books make you happy?

what books have made you uncomfortable? why?

can you read anywhere? moving vehicle? rollercoaster?

how do you bookmark books?

policy on book-lending?

do people know you’re a bookworm?

how well do you take care of your books?

can you read in other languages?

what is a total book turn-off for you?

what is an essential element of a good book?

genres you rarely read?

do you read non-fiction?

do you read reviews on a book before you read it?

do you judge a book by the cover?

do you read cover to cover or sometimes skim parts?

do you always finish a book, even if it is dull?

how do you organise your books?

favourite book this year?

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“Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.” -Wuthering Heights

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A boy is fostered among his betters. He falls in love with his foster sister. Can’t marry her. He becomes rich. Through schemes takes control of his foster family’s lands. Marries a woman he doesn’t actually love for gain. His foster sister (one he’s in love with) dies. After his wife’s death, he takes control of her sickly son who doesn’t like porridge. He kidnaps his old love’s daughter. He forces her to marry a guy to gain her father’s ancestral lands. His foster sister comes back from death.

Is this boy Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights or a certain character from ASOIAF?

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Ok so the thing about reading like books which are “predictable” is that I, a story enjoyer, go completely bonkers about it bc its like Enrichment in my Enclosure. A scene parallels another earlier scene between different characters thus serving to highlight the differences in their views and priorities???? A line makes me think “hmmm I bet that’s gonna be relevant later” ends up being relevant later????? I am a tiger chewing ice cubes out of a pumpkin. I’m so so happy. Please foreshadow more things. Throw the completely anticipateable plot beats at me like catnip mousies!!!!!

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Anyways, this is fucking disgusting.

^ Becky Albertalli author of Simon vs. the Homosapien Agenda

^ Dove Cameron

Listen, I understand being curious about celebrities' lives. If you see a celebrity doing a bunch of gay things you might think "hey, maybe that artist is queer" but that's as far as it should go. You should never harass, or threaten, or force anyone to come out. That is fucking disrespectful and wrong. Queerness is about including anyone who feels that they do not fit into normal society, there is no one way of being queer. It's not a box, it's free and open and that's the beauty of it, so how about we fucking stop forcing queer people to come out, or label themselves, it's none of your business.

This has become a pattern and it needs to STOP

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Mary Shelley ― Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus