#This book hurts

[camille-lachenille]

I just finished the chapter Niënor in Brethil and ouch! I had to fight not to start crying in the train.

#tolkien #the children of húrin #this book hurts #like so much

[s4dgayanime]

A little life has damaged me so much ( I haven’t even finished it) that I am consuming so much ghostsoap content at a rapid pace to cope. How are these two connected? I have no idea, probably just timing. Is it working? Kind of

#ghost cod #ghostsoap #ghost simon riley #john soap mactavish #a little life #jude x willem #Jude Malcom JB Willem #the axiom of equality #the happy years #vanities #lispenard street #this book hurts #I am a shell of a man #i am gay and crying #god i am so gay #sadspeaks #personal

[nataliekabra]

alright, loser (with the intention of confessing my undying love for you)

#picture us in the light #kelly loy gilbert #i didn't sign up for this ugh #this book hurts #i just want it to end #when three hours ago i was wishing it would never end #im so tired

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

#it speaks! #sondheim understood this with into the woods; the deconstruction of narrative itself is able to happen because we are able to believe in -> #<- the fairy tale logic he employs prior to this. #its a kids book but adam gidwitz understood this with a tale dark and grimm!! #cant speak for the rest of the series but that first book uses the absurdity of fairy tale logic to speak about the absurdity of -> #<- adulthood and the pedagogy present in many fairy tales to discuss the ways parents hurt their children. #rule of threes is important but theres so much on my list ive yet to read; always welcome recommendations. #fairy tales #into the woods #<- this comes from musings on how successfully i feel that musical functions so it gets the tag

[hanmegumi]

LMAO

edit: turning off reblogs because some of the people that are reblogging are extremely fucking moronic. holy shit

#anti jk rowling #anti harry potter #1) she's not being removed because 'she spoke up about biological sex' she actively influences anti-trans policies #2) it's not misogynistic to remove her. the fact that she's a woman doesn't have ANYTHING to do with her removal #3) the people reblogging this in approval don't 'cry when an artist isn't credited' this isn't the same fucking thing. #this is as the article says (if you know how to read 🤭) the quickest solution to reduce her impact #this bitch doesn't just hurt trans people. it's clear in her books that she's a white supremacist and she's also antisemitic #and she said dumbledore is gay for clout. it's fucking obvious. stop defending this woman and get a life- #-or get involved on the side of trans people #or just generally drop the fucking series you read as a middle schooler. nostalgia isn't more important than the lives of trans/jewish ppl

[twistcmyk]

*person in the ‘70s voice* Big Bear Babes

#help... i'm trapped in a shitty old comic book #no one has read me for 300 years #it Hurts

[egophiliac]

well, I can't say I expected the new chapter to feature Idia (metaphorically) going to (metaphorical) hell, getting a pep talk from his (metaphorical) Phantom brother which helps him finally move on once and for all from his brother's death, and (metaphorically) overblotting again to fight his way back out of (metaphorical) hell, only to have his darkest fear (non-metaphorically) come true when his mom goes through his computer and finds all his secret files. but I am glad it did!

also this is all a flashback for the purpose of explaining to our group what the heck is going on (whether or not any of it is getting through is another matter)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 chapter 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 chapter 7 spoilers #it's okay she said she didn't look in the password-protected folders #your secret recipes are safe #what's up guys it's IDIA TIME #red idia. redia. is this anything #(my thoughts are all over the place so this is not going to be comprehensible sorry in advance) #woooooo and his character arc is resolved!!!! #including my new favorite shroudbros interaction #idia: ortho i need to apologize for how much i must have hurt you -- #ortho: whatever niisan i went to SPACE #they're so stupid. i love them so much. #not to mention idia starting to realize something is up when he pulls 3 ssrs no problem #(stares at 3 currently-running ssr pickups) twst is mocking me personally #aw man though! i forget if he had that line before about crimson muscle coming to his entrance ceremony or if that's new #either way i think that's sweet! #there's been a bit of a running subplot that idia actually really does want to be friends irl #but is too shy/anxious and convinced crimson would hate him immediately if they ever met #so idk. it was kind of a throwaway line but it still got me! when are he and lilia gonna meet for reals :( #(this will definitely involve makeovers) (this is not how idia expected their friendship to go but he has no choice now)

[obsob]

muse :3

✹prints shop!✹

#mine #original #i love doing energetic felt tip drawings. truly what life is about #anywyaay. tummy hurt #also ive had such bad brain fog these past 4 days and been like :( why is it so bad again :( #anyway i actually remembered 2 take my hayfever meds 2day n immediately felt better n was like. ah. #song of the day is gilded lily by cults...HAVENT I GIVEN ENOUGH! GIVEN ENOUGH! #truly a fitz chivalry song.....hes never had a good day in his life #im on th third book i am slwoly making my way thro it good loird

[yaoyaobae]

May you be blessed with sweet dreams

#twisted wonderland #twst #twst fanart #diasomnia #malleus draconia #meleanor draconia #twst book 7 spoilers #i cried alot it hurts #I’VE NEVER CRIED SO BAD JUST THINKING ABOUT EVERYTHING EVERYONES BEEN THROUGH REALLY REALLY MAKES ME AAAA

[ryllen]

🍎⚡

#twitter is so christmassy i feel guilty for not being christmassy enough #twst #twisted wonderland #sebek zigvolt #twst yuu #twst mc #glorious masquerade #does making potion needs magic too #imagine yuu grinding on potion study bcs that's the only way they could help the crews #i imagine pome outfit is cozy & snuggly just like kimono #wearing only kimono is surprisingly warm #i wore it during fall at japan once #i was dying already from the cold even tho it was just fall #i recall even just swinging my hand while walking made it hurts #anyway yea had been thinking of yuu being cozy in pome outfit bcs of book 6 #sebek is just a bonus #jk i also had been thinking of how matching the masquerade outfit with the pome outfitt #so there's only one conclusion #d a n c e #fanart

[beggars-opera]

Hey, so we don't talk enough about A Christmas Carol as being at least a little bit about not continuing a cycle of abuse and neglect, both against others and yourself.

In the book little Scrooge is left languishing over the holidays in a boarding school for some never-explained reason, but it is made very clear that this is miserable and unfair, and that his father is doing this on purpose. His sister specifically comes to tell him that "father is so much kinder now than he used to be, that home's like heaven." This also reflects a bit of Dickens's own childhood when his father went into debtor's prison and little Charlie was forced to support his family working full time in a shoe-blacking factory at the age of 12 (which is also why so many of his books seem to have a moral of "hey, kids are people too and maybe we shouldn't make them work in the mines.")

Whatever family reunion happened after didn't work out, because Scrooge continues believing that no one is coming to save him and pulling himself up by his bootstraps at the detriment of all other social relationships is the only way forward. And the more he lives by that philosophy, the more miserable he gets, because obviously he pushes away anyone who has that hope that he lost. They threaten to break down the walls he's built and teach him that a big pile of money doesn't have to be the only thing that he can rely on, if he'd just let himself be vulnerable and have a relationship with people who care about him, because they're out there even if he's ignoring them.

There is a certain type of person still very much out there who thinks this way. "I've never been happy in my life, so no one else has a right to be either. I was abused in my childhood so it's only fair that everyone else suffer as well." We see this in parents who still try to use corporal punishment, and in wealthy people who ignore the social factors keeping others down and scream that everyone else is just entitled, that only those who suffer and scrape deserve happiness. And they especially hate the people like Fred who represent the past that could have been, who have maintained hope for the future, and seem to be rubbing their optimism in your face, when in reality they're just maintaining hope because it's the only way you can survive.

It's so important for Scrooge to actually see the impact this thinking has on both himself and multiple generations. Rich people have this weird hangup about this story because they think Scrooge is bad because he's rich. He's not, he's bad because he's a horrible person and a miser - he doesn't use his money to better anything, including himself. Salting the earth, everyone suffers here, including him. And he learns that he's going to die old and alone without ever having spent or enjoyed his money, and that his family feels sorry for him, and that the nameless masses of poor people out there that he decries so much are in fact living, breathing people, including tiny disabled kids who don't deserve to suffer just because you decided life isn't fair.

In the end he takes responsibility for actually uplifting the people in the next generation who are trying to make the world a better place and no longer punching down, because it doesn't have to be this way. So many people out there just give up hope because things are hard and they think trying to improve things is a pointless exercise that makes them look dumb. How dare you grow a year older and not an hour richer! How dare you marry for love! That's the only thing more ridiculous than a Merry Christmas! When in reality, there are plenty of people who would love to see them happy if they just had a chance.

It's really sad that, while the language used to describe it has changed, these problems still persist. That people feel so wronged and isolated that they spend their days ensuring everyone else will be as well. That they fail to see their fellow humans as fellow humans who are just as deserving of love and kindness and a roof over their heads. I don't care what time of year it is, we should all be lifting each other up rather than tearing each other down.

#long post #rant #a christmas carol #charles dickens #history #books #literature #christmas #who hurt elon musk

[suntails]

echo

#its the way baul called sebek a human with such disdain and sebek looked so HURT. and thats exactly what he does #it's the way this is his chance to face the music. to realize what he has accidentally carried forward in attitude towards everyone else #it's SEBEK TIME BABEYYYYYYYY it's SEBEKKY NATION!!!! the relationship and similarities between sebek and baul are SO interesting AGHHHH #cannot possibly overstate how floored and overjoyed i was that bauls design was getting put in canon. not even in an event #in the MAIN STORY. as an IMPORTANT CHAR im WHEEZING #sebek's internalized everything is so important to his char. yes we KNOW hes annoying and mean. its bc he hasnt gotten his ARC YET this is #GGRGGAHGAHHAHAHAH #twst #twisted wonderland #twst spoilers #book 7 spoilers #sebek zigvolt #baul zigvolt #oh Also shoutout to all the old man yaoi coming from this update. i appreciate it so much #lilibaul nation #suntails

[s4dgayanime]

A Little Life is ruining my little life I have not had a book made me feel so genuinely bad in such a long time. Like this book is making me think about old habits and terrible coping mechanisms from when my life was so so much and difficult and long and it just never stops. I haven’t even finished this book and all I can do is think about it when I am not reading it and I am so withdrawn and feel like shit and I should probably stop reading it but it is so good. (This is for no one but myself because I am just amazed by how shitty a singular fictional book makes me feel)

#sadspeaks #personal #a little life #jude x willem #hanya yanagihara #this book hurts #ouch ouch ouch #I have been wearing the same shirt for three days

[lyss-sketchbox]

Them with each other's catalyst

#we do not let tism dragon near any camera at all #hed spend all the film on his daughters #also ngl neuvis book look like those thick af dictionaries that hurts when u just balance it on ur head because of how heavy it is #phys wrio moment #ironically stat wise they barely benefit each other #lyss' sketch #genshin impact #genshin #genshin fanart #genshin impact fanart #wriothesley #neuvillette #wriolette #neuvithesley #fontaine #comic

[sweetarethediscords]

It’s Hurt/Comfort. It’s listening beyond hearing. Seeing beyond sight.

It’s finding ways to treat the wound, be it salve or bandage, kisses or quiet.

Salt to cleanse a festering sore.

Honey poured down a throat cried raw.

It's...

It’s limbs entangled in the dark of night, fingers knotted in hair, breath and heartbeats slowing into a steady rhythm, a reminder that you’re both still here, both alive, together.

It’s gentle lips pressed against old, deep scars. Silent prayers of gratitude whispered into the gnarled flesh.

It’s the years past the pain, when you’re both old and happy, but the nightmares still come. Far and few in-between nowadays but just as feverish and frightening as they were back when their cause was fresh. The hand that rests on your shoulder gently. The reverent, patient whisper of your name becoming a lighthouse beacon. Waking you, saving you. Thumb brushing the tears off your cheeks as tender as if it were the first time.

#writing #bookblr #the maiden of the barren rime #fantasy novel #fantasy romance #fantasy books #new books #mbr #hurt/comfort #romantasy #words #fae

[nikki-rook]

from page to screen - Good Omens

#I absolutely love how some scenes are word for word the exact same from book to show #guess thats what you get when you have the author writing the show. wish we had more adaptations like that #yes this took forever. my hands hurt #good omens #these are literal scans from my copy of the book btw #david tennant #michael sheen #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #good omens book #ineffable #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #ineffable idiots #goodomensedit #ineffable spouses #aziracrow #crowley #anthony j crowley #aziraphale and crowley #goodomens #nikkirookgif #gomensnaap