#karen russel

[asoftepiloguemylove]

home is the first grave

Karen Russell St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves / unknown / @/southern-gothic-decay (on tumblr) / Adonis (tr. Khaled Mattawa) excerpt from Body, "Selected Poems" / unknown / Mary Oliver Metamorphosque / Nikki Giovanni excerpt from Adulthood II, "Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day" / Warsan Shire excerpt from Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems / Team Dresch Uncle Phranc / @/elsiewarrenswords (on tumblr) / Wych elm Susan Smith

i. Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

[ "her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bedspread and shrieking, 'I wanna go home! I wanna go home!' Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home." ]

ii. unknown

[ "FUCK YOU IF YOU EVER TOUCH ME AGAIN / I'LL SHOVE MY HANDS DOWN YOUR THROAT / AND RIP OUT THE VERY HEART YOU STOLE FROM ME / UNTIL YOU CAN'T BREATHE AND THE HAUNTING / IMAGES FILL YOUR BRAIN AND THE BUGS / EAT YOUR REMAINS THERE WILL BE NO / REMORSE FROM ME AND I HOPE OU ROT IN THE GRAVE / YOU STOLE MY CHILDHOOD FROM ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT" ]

iii. @/southern-gothic-decay

[ "2. You can always make things more difficult. Draw it out. Make it interesting. Oh, you don't want to follow someone else's blueprints? Oh, you want to create something new? Too bad. We can't all be architects. Some of us were born to lay the bricks. Some of us were born to hide the bodies. You've been building this house since you were born, just like your father. Just like your father, you will not live to see it finished. The house has been a nursery. The house has been a burial site. The house is swallowing bodies before the blood has dried. Your inheritance is a knife's edge. Your inheritance is a culling. When the time comes, even your coffin will be a family heirloom. Come, make sure the measurements are right." ]

iv. Adonis (tr. Khaled Mattawa), Body

[ "And his ghosts said: Let's move on / Before the body is piling itself upon itself / secret by secret / Rot is also a heart / rot is also childhood / rot is also what love is" ]

v. Mary Oliver, Metamorphosque

[ "In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be." ]

vi. Nikki Giovanni, Adulthood II

[ "There is always something / of the child / in us that wants / a strong hand to hold / through the hungry season / of growing up" ]

vii. Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

[ "Mama, I made it / out of our home / alive, raised by / the voices in my head." ]

viii. Team Dresch, Uncle Phranc

[ "My mom says she loves me / But i don't think it's love / Cause she only loves me / When i act just like she does // And that's emotional blackmail" ]

ix. @/elsiewarrenswords

[ "I think that's what happens when you've lived a lonely childhood. You get too attached to people as you get older, in the hope that they'll give you the care and love that you missed out on and never leave you." ]

x. Wych elm, Susan Smith

[ "Why'd you do this to me / I was your baby / You made me" ]

[brekkerholmes]

sometimes a marriage is you, your husband and your emotional support time-travelling alien

(i'm on episode 9 season 5, so no spoilers pls!)

[assortedmelons]

Celebrity Melons

[russellcranebf]

some chibis i did of some characters bc i wanted new discord icons to match with my best friend!! the other two were requested from the cc discord !! :3

might do more if people want them, if you use them please credit me!!

[filministic]

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) dir. James Gunn

[heyho-simonrussellbeale]

Simon Russell Beale as Bently in episode 4 of Douglas Is Cancelled.

Misogyny women can really get behind

[whilereadingandwalking]

Introducing my top most anticipated reads of 2025! I skipped a couple I'm still reviewing, and the heavily hyped ones are at the end. I wanted to focus on books I'm psyched for that you may not have heard of! Anything catch your eye?

[in-love-with-movies]

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

[anxietyfluffy]

SO i have been working on this for a lil bit BUT this is an artwork based on @appleflavoredkitkats's amazing fanfiction 'a mini ontology'!!! it is genuinely so good i recommend reading it!!

[janesurlife]

This is everything

[unladyboss]

THE BEAR CORE GROUP OF WRITERS. THE BEAR SEASON ALL

So this is the core group

They shoot the breeze

Protest together

They meet, write, hang out in groups for I guess what may be team building dinners and lunches

They laugh and joke etc

Win awards together

So I guess if you see extra names being nominated for season 3, the changes to how the show was before, MAY have come from those extra names.

I'm just inferring

[doctorwhohugh]

Continuity errors in Doctor Who

I'm curious, what continuity errors do you notice in Doctor Who? Someone asked me the other day "What movie mistake is so glaringly obvious that you're surprised it made it into the final cut?", and my response was "Not sure about films, but I can name about 20 different continuity errors from Doctor Who alone".

[mymilovesfashion]

[2024 year in review ~ Vogue Italia]

JAN - Benedetta Porcaroli

FEB - Adele Aldighieri, Ajok Daing, Malika El Maslouhi, Marina Moioli, Maty Fall, Paola Manes, Valeria Buldini

MAR - Taylor Russell

APR - Bella Hadid

MAY - Irina Shayk

JUN - Hunter Schafer; Laura Pausini (digital)

JUL - Bad Bunny

AUG - Karen Elson; Sofia Raffaeli, Milena Baldassarri (digital)

SEP - Maty Fall, Mariacarla Boscono, Vittoria Ceretti, Linda Evangelista, Deva Cassel, Isabella Rossellini

OCT - Monica Bellucci

NOV - Lana Del Rey

DEC - Carlita, Alek Wek, Alex Consani, Amelia Gray, Anok Yai, Maty Fall, Paloma Elsesser

[assortedmelons]

Celebrity Melons