#and july talk are the loves of my life

[chaos-and-recover]

Tagged by @life-b4-death 4 albums I've been listening to lately

Gonna specifically tag @earthaboveskybelow @fragmentsofemily @invincible-selfxmade-punk @larry-david-lynch @dirt-mccracken and anyone else who feels like it but you totally don't have to.

[iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight]

this one's for all the yuri enjoyers out there — nsft under cut

meronia event prompt(s): scar

[jibanyans-chocobar]

Hi Octofandom. I know this is sudden but I'm taking a break from posting normal stuff and will only reblog and post stuff about Venezuela now.

I don't want to cause drama or anything like that, but I just want to make people aware of what's happening in my country.

I'll still post art for the fandom, but it will probably be about this too.

I'm honestly really scared. I know we can't lose all hope and I'm not saying I have. I'm just afraid of what will happen if we don't manage to do something. I'm afraid because I don't want the 2016-2017 crisis we had to repeat itself. I don't want people to get k1ll3d because of this. I don't want to have to leave my country, the country where I WAS BORN, to be able to live a better life. I don't want to leave my country until Venezuela is free.

Apart from scared, I'm also mad too, for obvious reasons.

I'm not trying to diminish what other countries are going through. I'm sorry if it seems like that, that isn't my intention at all, but I need to make people aware of this too.

[sysig]

Challenge level: Impossible (Patreon)

[souenkun]

July recap! 🏖

[eggmeralda]

that period of time between south park post covid being announced in 2021 to summer 2022 when everyone got obsessed with truffula flu was moderately heavenly

[kaus-quietis]

A Circus Library - quick recommendations of short stories, poems, comics and novels I've recently read #1

Hello there! I'm the circus resident poltergeist, Eliott, managing this blog until Lav comes back. Today I offer you a slightly different formula of my super awesome super rare super bookclub post, as Lav would say!

Hello hello hello! Is this a bookclub?! Is this chaotic ramble?! Ding ding! You got it wrong!

Writing full on reviews is tiedous and long, and while I appreciate doing it, I'm myself not always in the mood to read a long post explaining why a book is genius. Do I love that from time to time? Yes! Do I have the attention span to write one now? Nope! However, I still wanted to share some titles I recently (re)discovered, and that I think are marvellous reads for anyone wanting to dive into something new.

Here you'll find a few recommendations with the shortest of words to tell you why they are great, or just scream about it.

short disclaimer before I begin because this is tumblr and while I forgot a lot about this website, I remember how the TW thing works lol, it's at your own discretion to search for the works beforehand if you have any trigger you don't want to encounter.

Jack Spicer - Billy the kid

The master of my fate, captain of my soul as Timothée Chalamet would say idk I barely know the guy. Classic and gold, Spicer is an amazing writer and this poem is phenomenal. It's quite short and perfect if you want to know more about the wonder that was US American poetry during the 20th century. Of course I'd encourage you to read all of his works, but Billy the Kid is perfect to start somewhere.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Hell Screen

Classic and iconic, I've recently pushed further than Rashomon and boy oh boy am I never turning back. Hell Screen is a phenomenal short story displaying all the elegance and cruelty Akutagawa can incorporate in his works. It's mesmerizing, it aches, it's everything I love. I read this story in Jay Rubin's translation (Penguin Classics), and even though I do not speak Japanese so I cannot compare, I dare say it's a very good one.

Lucie Bryon, Thieves

I never recommended comic books before but I wanted to for a change! I am a huge comic book lover, but most of the ones I usually read are not available in english language. This one is, though. Thieves is a beautiful comic about growth, falling in love and finding acceptance in others and in yourself. It's light and heartwarming, like eating candy.

Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

Now, this book exploits one of my biggest plot weaknesses ever, and that is fucked up people in medieval settings. Lapvona tells the story of Marek, a sheperd's son, who'll be caught in a series of unfortunate events, political struggles, and secrets, all inside the town of Lapvona. It's dark and unsettling, the characters are scandalous and horrible, yet sickeningly human. Now, I said to check the TW yourselves, but be very careful with this one, if you can think of a TW, then it's certainly in this book.

Osamu Dazai, Early Light

In the Storybook ND series, this book contains three short stories : Early Light, Three Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, and Villon’s Wife. I'd recommend the three of them, as it's a fantastic dive into Dazai's shorter works. I think that reading his short stories is very important to understand his work and the width of the subjects and stories he wrote about. It helps that once again, in my opinion, the translation chosen by this publishing house is so good.

This is it for today! Here you have five of the works I read (or re-read) this summer, and that I'd warmly recommend. There are two short stories (Dazai, Akutagawa), a comic book (Bryon), a novel (Moshfegh) and a poem (Spicer). 'Till next time!

[gloriousangelfuck]

when we have to ask guys to buy us flowers as soon as it leaves our lips it ceases to be a romantic gesture but a chore and i hate it

[wavernot4love]

well guys i am currently a few songs into my first ever actual listen through of boom done and holy crap dude i am ascending. once again, over yet another project, ag autism goes crazy

[rarepairnation]

finished bloodkeep rewatch. as always rotating leiland and markus in my mind. thinking about you don't have to deserve love it is freely given. thinking about love as fealty and the freedom of choice. to decide who it is you will swear yourself to. to decide who it is your heart might belong to. love as devotion but not like it used to be, not a weak little helpless thing, not a futile terrible ache, not chasing something you will never be granted. not as a thing you should be granted at all, not as a favour or a boon or a thing to be won, not as part of a transaction or a manipulation. not something that you have to be worthy of but something that you are given, out of free choice. something that you can give, out of your will and your heart. its about learning how to love its always being a little bit weird and intense and always giving 100% of yourself and learning that you're not going to be punished for it. that you're going to get what you want and the man who you might be falling in love with is someone who can love you back. who will, if you give him the chance. leiland guy of all time.

ALSO thinking about being a pirate mercenary for hire and wanting nothing else (after gold, maybe) than to go home but you can't, you can't, because they didn't even fucking look for you. you were lost at sea and they didn't even look for you, or at least they didn't find you, which when you think about it is basically the same thing. it's about finally meeting someone who has the closest to shared life experience as you've ever come, someone who tells you i know a thing or two about being forgotten royalty, and he's a little intense and a little pathetic and possibly a little too fixated on torturing people for all eternity but hey, who are you to judge. it's about spending the craziest day of your life watching him, watching him come into himself, giving him your kill just so he feels a little bit better about himself, and you don't want to save him, not necessarily. you're evil, you're not really in the business of saving people. you kind of want to fix him and you kind of want to just show him that goddamnit, look at what you could be if you just let people love you. markus also guy of all time.

[rosicheeks]

what’s some good news from this week?

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[fingertipsmp3]

I haaate when apple pay doesn’t work and I have to type my credit card number in because now I have to actually comprehend the ways in which I am damaging myself financially

[mrfoox]

Unfortunately I am the type of person that will tell you everything about myself but also nothing, hope that helps

[lizbethsletters]

letters | 042

𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓻, 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝔂 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮

Today is July 4th which, of course, means FIREWORKS but it also means its our anniversary of being "exclusive" which I had said when we talked about it. When we talked about it I sent you a text late at night after talking about it with my best friend debating if I should ask you what we were. Today, you told me how you felt when we were talking and how many other girls you were talking to at the time, you told me about how you didn't want to care or fall in love but you winded up doing both. I love you so much and you being in my life was the best thing that could ever happen to me. Te amo con todo mi corazon y lo he dicho muchas veces pero tu the significas todo en mi vida no podre vivir sin ti en ningun momento. That month without you was the worst month of my life. I love you so much. Happy one year and when you told me you said "you were gonna tell me but late at night and then get mad at me for forgetting" and you were absolutely right pero ahora me quitaste la satisfacion de hacerte eso. I love you though with everything. I sent you a TikTok that said "one thing in my shein cart for every time I get mad and we restart every month" you said "whatever you want princess starts tmr tho if u down bae" with apparently full genuine intent. I know you meant it but I don't know because that is a lot of things and I get mad a lot at least at you. I love you and I miss you a bunch.

𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓵𝔂,

𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵ᡣ𐭩

[thirdeyeblue]

☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻exactly what @bronzeagepizzeria said

Does it need saying?

[steviescrystals]

there is no feeling worse in the world than missing your grandma :/