#Everything is Poison

[lesinthearchives]

Everything is Poison

Joy McCullough

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Book of year: 04

Favorite Quote:

“There are so many who have no one else to turn to, even if you think you know otherwise. Even if it looks like they have a mother, a sister, a friend. Maybe there’s a reason they can’t turn to those closest to them. That’s where we come in. That is the daily work we are here for. Giving women a choice over what happens in their bodies. Are we clear?”

I absolutely loved this book—words can hardly do justice to how much I enjoyed it. The themes felt incredibly relevant, and I was especially drawn to the relationships and deep understanding shared between the women. When I first came across *Everything is Poison* on NetGalley, I was thrilled to dive into it, and it did not disappoint. The writing is exceptional, and the interludes about the people of Campo Marzio added such richness to the narrative. Carmella’s story feels like a coming-of-age journey, but in a wholly unique and compelling way. This book was so captivating, it’s made me want to grab a La Tofana Apothecary sweatshirt. Absolutely phenomenal.

[hummenkube]

idk where to put this but i think here is good bc no one really checks here. but im so fucking dysmorphic lately. i need to go on my meds again but i dont think i can afford it. my fucking bpd is so untethered and vicious and i keep going from numb and unmotivated to level 1 billion everyone i know hates me and is out to get me and im unlovable and ugly and only kept around because i am easy to use and the world is crumbling and im going to lose everything and i cant do anything about it

[strawberryswag]

there are many reasons to hate trump but a big one is the fact that his removal of usda regulations in meat processing plants while he was in office have directly lead to millions of products getting recalled for listeria contamination. thank god these corporations were able to save a couple bucks tho!

[putmeinaparka]

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[bamsara]

Concept comic for a scene I'm writing for Trod

Takes place in the before-Shamura and mass dissention arc. I think the menticide mushrooms would react horrifically combined with godhood. Instead of seeing things that aren't real, they see real things they're not supposed to

[egberts]

companies really have got to be okay with stagnant profits. what is wrong with earning the same amount every year? why does it always have to be more? it's not sustainable. there are only so many people on the planet you can profit from 😭

[thedreadvampy]

people seriously pretending EEAAO is overrated suddenly bc it swept awards? it swept awards largely because it is very very very good. I cried like someone who's just had a religious revelation BOTH times I watched it bc it touched something raw and real and beautiful but it was also just very, very funny. everyone's performance kills and the concept is creative and interesting and doesn't distract from the emotional core. you guys are just contrarian.

[anistarrose]

amnesiac barry bluejeans is still one of the most existentially fucked up characters of all time to me. you wake up with a gaping hole in your memories, naked in a tank in a cave that screams "dark magic and horrific experiments." your own voice tells you you've lost more than you can imagine, and you sound like you know what you're talking about. you run away from that place, knowing you're on a death mission. wishing you didn't have to wonder what happened to you — how some nobody like you got caught up in something so terrifying and incomprehensible, something so much bigger than you.

and then, you die. and you realize it's the other way around. you are the terrifying, incomprehensible thing that the fate of the world has been caught in. and you've just failed. again.

[reality-detective]

FACTS: She breaks it down perfectly 🤔

[courttwoknee]

The theme is neurodivergent anime main characters that would cause hell together

[naturecalls111]

don't interrupt the kage meeting

[theresa-draws]

at least she's alive, at least she doesn't have to see what he's become, at least she hasn't given up on him

[bunnieswithknives]

Gore, Violence and Blood under the cut

What a mess

[fairsweetlonging]

just thinking about how binghe had no idea that without-a-cure even had a cure and he spent all his years as a disciple thinking his shizun would at best be disabled for the rest of his life and at worst die a slow and painful death, and it was to save him.

[vespermyotis]

i think possibly the chiefest point of horror in my first viewing of the terror, which still gets me every time, is Irving encountering the Netsilik family.

it’s a great, gutwrenching scene. Irving doesn’t intend any violence to them. he’s earnest, and they’re earnest in return—Koveyook feeds him, and you know it won’t save him, he’s asking too impossibly much of them when he mentions the rest of the crew, but it’s good in what it intends. on both sides, even.

and you know watching, from the outset, that somehow Irving is going to kill these people. somehow, in short order, this officer of the largest empire in world history is going to blow all their lives up. just by showing up, he’s condemned them to something; just by being aware of them, he’s taking from them. blast radius of imperialism.

and it’s so terrible, because they fed him and he gave them the only pretty and sentimental offering he had on him and ultimately, Irving won’t ever even know he got them killed, though they will have died thinking he meant to do it.

and even so: it doesn’t matter that he didn’t mean it. because they didn’t know him!! and they fed him! and they were murdered for it. take and take and take and take. fuck

[bietrofastimoff23]

"Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Larys does what no one has done for Aegon: he's teaching him. he tells him the harsh truth, which hurts. Otto and Alicent did it too. but the difference is that Larys also demonstrates to Aegon that he is not alone in his path and he will have his support, he is here to help, not harm. He doesn't look at him as useless, even when he's lying in bed unable to move. he sees potential in Aegon - a combination of the ability to listen and the desire to return what is due - which is why he gives him a weapon "your mind is all that remains to you", rather than a finished result.

Larys can manipulate, using his own experience and genuine pain, and sympathize with Aegon's situation at the same time, these are not mutually exclusive things, especially when Aegon showed him his respect by giving him a position on the council ("i should be glad of your talents") and when their fruitful cooperation will bring victory to both of them. Aegon will become Larys' greatest creation if Larys continues to teach him inner restraint and cunning.