#for one more day

[huxloween]

One more day!!

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[litandlifequotes]

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

For One More Day by Mitch Albom

[orchid-baby]

I am in New York

[typewriter-worries]

what seems like forever ago, @geryone so kindly tagged me and asked me to share nine book recommendations. after combing through some of my recent reads, here are some of my favorites:

My short little summaries and thoughts are listed under the cut:

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room is about a young man in David and his summer romance with another young man named Giovanni. Through the lens of love and heartbreak, David goes through a journey of identity.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - We follow our narrator, for now we can call him Joe, as he begins a very unconventional friendship with a man named Tyler. Men fight, they also bite and many a problems arise.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini- Historical fiction novel that is set agains the backdrop of many events from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy to the rise of the Taliban regime. I don't think I've cried harder reading a book so that's my own weird way of saying I can't recommend it enough.

For One More Day by Mitch Albom- Little read with a lot of heart. Fictional baseball player has the chance to spend one more day with his late mother, who he misses more than he ever thought he would. Another book that kept me crying into the middle of the night.

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio - I feel like if you like dark academia; this is an essential. A group of Shakespearean acting students at the fictional Dellecher Shakespeare conservatory get wrapped in a murder and it's an ongoing case of whodunit.

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood - A delicate look into the mundane crafted through the lens of grief, loss and heartache. We follow the life of George, a middle-aged gay man mourning the loss of his partner. Like Giovanni's Room, I think it's a staple of queer literature.

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy - A heartbreaking memoir that's sprinkled with the well timed moment of comedy. We learn about Jennette McCurdy's tumultuous relationship with acting, the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and her own way of working towards healing.

Promises of Gold by José Olivarez - If prose isn't your thing; this might be! Promises of Gold is a poetry collection in which Olivarez family, identity, love and quarantine. One of my personal favorites is Regret or My Dad Says Love

A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck - A story about first love that in ends heartbreak in more ways that one. It's first person and it's YA, two things I normally never read, but it's just so so good. Forget crying into the middle of the night, this had me crying well into morning

no pressure tagging: @firstfullmoon and @soracities if you have anything you want to recommend <3

[obstinaterixatrix]

not trying to make an explanation or excuse for how media & attention cycles, just processing, but it does make sense the oceangate thing is getting more attention seeing as it’s tragedy and spectacle and there’s something of interest to dig into, the logistics and safety and engineering aspects, the implications for fallout, etc, whereas the intentional (or even just. indifference to?) mass death of vulnerable people is just. depressing. it’s really depressing. despite having tragic elements, the oceangate thing is something that can be brought up in casual conversation and dissected in a way that doesn’t kick the participants into the gaping maw of despair. man. I do hope there’s… some sort of consequence. some sort of response that acknowledges and prevents tragedy on a larger scale. that’s so many people.

[allo-frouto]

can u open the messages?

Tomorrow is the day!

[kindredwisteria]

"When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you even at unlikely times."

- from the book For One More Day by Mitch Albom

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[stemmmm]

gotta hand it to him, he is a cutie in that prison uniform

[lit-crits]

(2007) For One More Day, Mitch Albom. 23/09/2024

First time reading? Yes

Rating: 6.5/10

Favourite quote: "So," she said, moving away, "now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted." (The way I SOBBED AT THIS)

Another book from Albom, didn't read this one as a teen but I think my mam did and must have told me about it because I vaguely remembered the plot. This one hit A Lot harder than "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" in terms of emotional response to the plot and the characters. Chick/Charley is an ASSHOLE, I know we are supposed to feel sorry for him by the end of the book because he lays his soul bare and he tried to off himself but he was nothing but awful to his endlessly loving mam and chose her over his borderline evil dad throughout his entire life, and was shitty towards his wife too. Also, Leonard (Chick's dad) is a horrible horrible horrible man. He makes Chick pick between being a mommy's boy or a daddy's boy when he is a child (he picks his dad), he instils his own dreams and ambitions of being a baseball star into his son to the point where Chick lies & abandons his elderly mam on her birthday to go to a baseball game for "networking", he cheats on his wife to the point of having a whole other family, he chooses this 2nd family over his 1st and THEN abandons his 2nd family!!!! Posey (Chick's mam) is a wonderful woman, who went through so much being a divorced single mam to 2 kids. I know she literally isn't real but god DAMN she did not deserve the shit the men in her life put her through!!

[chez-cinnamon]

What if Pomni seeks out comfort from Kinger bc of the last episode?? Part 2 !!

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GRRRRRRR THEY MEAN EVERYTHING TO MEEEEE

Also hc that Kinger glowing is something he can control, like his own little cartoon physics gimmick. He mainly uses it for Pomni comfort purposes, like a warm nightlight!!

[malenjoyer]

WE'RE SO BACK

[spiribia]

once you hit adulthood a day will come when you’re suddenly like VEGETABLES 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 and it never goes away

[raybeetle]

Baby globoxes: Wahhh wheres my dad

Rayman: such a strange trio we made, each of us, at some point, longing to be loved by the same man

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

[zorangezest]

switcheroo part 2 electric boogaloo (soundwave edition)

for those of you who were wondering, yes soundwave is still the most loyal hes just a flamboyant conniving megalomaniac, and yes starscream is still traitorous hes just calculating and methodical and very very patient

part 3