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Do you think people are inherently good or bad, or is it the circumstances that shape them?

(p.s your life is worth something)

idk what to believe tbh

one part of me believes all humans are evil, i mean, just look at the state of the world we live in. another part of me remembers my best friend (she's the nicest person in the entirety of the universe), and all the beautiful thing we create as humans, all the music and movies and books and paintings that makes me want to believe things aren't so bad. but then i also remember war and greed and hunger and ego and destrution and capitalism: awful things also created by humans.

honestly, i could go on and go about it, but in conclusion, i think is both? we must fight to be kind.

p.s: thank you for the ask. it caused a lot of good discussions at the office

p.p.s: i really don't think so, but thanks ♡

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im quitting tumblr

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Chapter 8 - 6

The head boy!

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“And who are you, Victoria Spring?” I can’t think of anything to say because that is what my answer would be, really. Nothing. I am a vacuum. I am void. I am nothing.

– Solitaire by Alice Osmen

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decided to re-read soliteire because i just can't let this book go

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snoopy read a little life... thoughts and prayers

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The Social Network (2010) dir. David Fincher

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Addams Family Values dir. Barry Sonnenfeld | 1993

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Now You See Me - 2 (2016)

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people who only use conventional social media are so funny bc they’ll casually be like “can I see your tumblr??” are you Insane. this is no instagram or twitter. this is my vault of secrets

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that's gay dude

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my thoughts on "this winter" by alice oseman

if you follow this blog or at least see a post of mine, you will know that i love everything alice oseman creates. this book is no exception. it was the second novel i read of hers (the first one being my beloved "soliteire") and it was just as good as I thought it would be.

in the comics, we see charlie's decline, his illness at its worst, quite literally taking control of his life. in the book, we have aftermath.

spoilers free down below

it was a nice surprise to start the book with tori's point of view. i've got so used to reading the comics where everything we see and hear is nick's or charlie's that it was a good change of pace. since the book happens a few months prior to "solitaire", we already see how tori is feeling, and how heavily charlie being ill affected her.

the whole bunch of the spring family is coming to christmas and with that, the questions, the stares, the usual family gathering threat, only worse. charlie has to deal with his family being completely ignorants dickheads and tori tries so hard to make things easier for charlie.

it is no use, however. charlie leaves and tori stays. it is simply heartbreaking to see how alone she feels, how she truly thinks that whatever she's feeling doesn't matter. charlie matters, she doesn't.

"can you at least spend christmas with me?" by @anaspringblog

one of the things i loved the most was that we saw a little bit of nick and tori's relationship, how nick cares for her too, how he knows that she will always be by charlie's side (you can see me freaking out about this in this post)

okay, this post so far has been all about tori (can you blame me? she's my favourite) so let's talk a little about charlie.

in the comics, we know charlie is ill, like really ill. but (at least, i) we don't see so up close, we're the audience, and we don't hear his thoughts. in the book, we actively do, so when he says "i started to realise how ill i was. and why i'd ended up there. it's because i was actually dying." just made my stomach roll. just then i realised too how sick he was. we read about how shitty he feels, how all of this is being so hard on him, how he knows how this has affected everyone around him, and how he feels guilty about it.

but one of the most important things i found in this book was how well it represents the recovery of a mentally ill person; how it is kind but not sugar-coating, how real and honest it is. for example when charlie says that when he was in the hospital, he didn't even want to try to get better because getting better demanded effort and energy, a thing that he didn't have, that he didn't think he would ever have again. but with the help of professionals he managed to do it. he managed to try and managed to get better. he isn't "back to normal" especially because such a thing doesn't even exist, but he's better, so that's what is important. right now he just wants to feel normal, to have a good day. which is proving very difficult.

however, nick being the ever sweetheart that he is, tries to do that for him. really tries to understand and be supportive without being pushy, and that's just what charlie needs.

charlie is tori's best friend, but tori isn't his, and that's heartbreaking; so when tori appears at nick's that's exactly what i feel for her. she's trying so hard, and charlie knows that, too.

"i worry about you all the time. did you know that?" gif by @evie-carnahan

so, finishing the book from oli's point of view, innocent, childish, pure oli is just want i need it. just what the book need it. a reminder that in the end, they're together, no matter what. they're a family.

"and then you promise to come back." tori smiles. "okay. we'll definitely promise to come back.

favourite quotes:

“I hate Christmas,’ she says. ‘No you don’t,’ I say. ‘I hate this one.’

‘Everyone hates this one.”

“Sometimes I want to just stop trying altogether. Just stop doing anything at all."

“When people know you’re mentally ill, most people either want to ignore it completely or they treat you like you’re strange, scary, or fascinating. Very few people are actually good at the middle ground. The middle ground isn’t hard. It’s just being there. Being helpful, if help is needed. Being understanding, even if they don’t understand everything.”

this post is a very very long way to say again, i love this book, i love what it does and what it represents. that's all.

next review is going to be about "nick and charlie" if you care about stuff like that.