#/lit/

[emotionalwords]

i’m such a “i want your attention” but “won’t bother you” kinda person

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[monstrousliarstold]

[futuristic-koala]

[usefulquotes7]

[flowrrs4u]

I am good. I am loved.

[mournfulroses]

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2019

[dangerouslyfurrydragon]

Date someone who naturally brings out your inner child, makes you laugh, never stops flirting with you, and loves you a little extra on the days you don't feel so loveable.

[resqectable]

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

Sylvia Plath

[flowerytale]

Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

[problemnyatic]

the steven universe hate is insane bc people are (or at least were) more upset that fictional war criminals got fictional hugs than they recognize that it singlehandedly advanced queer rep in children's media by lightyears and then straight up ate heavy retaliation for the nerve.

It does have real flaws that are worth discussing, but it also put their male protagonist in dresses and skirts and played it straight and even empowering, they aired a lesbian wedding on television, it was a genuinely queer, genuinely diverse piece of media through and through. It did a lot of real good for the real world.

But also the fictional characters caused fictional harm to other fictional characters, and didn't get an onscreen firing squad sentence. So, you know, it's basically ontologically evil in real life.

[perfectfeelings]

I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.

Unknown

[brightdeadthing]

love as recognition

anna gavalda / friedrich nietzsche / clarice lispector / jandy nelson / rebecca perry / mhairi mcfarlane

[thepersonalquotes]

the streets are not for me, i belong in my room sleeping