#a girl is a half formed thing

[folklorebau]

#bunny #film for her #normal people #sally rooney #a girl is a half formed thing #daisy jones and the six #tjr #taylor jenkins reid #the virgin suicides #the bell jar #sylvia plath #the cruel prince #judecardan #holly black #the folk of the air #a little life #if we were villains #death in her hands #otessa moshfegh #the haunting of hill house #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #evelyncelia #evelyn x celia #the perks of being a wallflower #the night circus #the secret history #my year of rest and relaxation #joan didion #the white album #books

[soracities]

Thinking I think of you and me. Our empty spaces where fathers should be. Whenabouts we might find them and what we’d do to fill them up.

Eimear McBride, A girl is a half-formed thing

#q #lit #quotes #literature #eimear mcbride #a girl is a half formed thing #sing me down into the dark #reading #irish lit #m #x

[phaedraismyusername]

Finally finished reading A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

#*just the longest exhale to ever hale* #a girl is a half formed thing #eimear mccloud #book recs #booklr

[danreviewsbooks]

A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing -> Eimear McBride

Oh my dear me folks look up a trigger warning list cus this one's crossing them off like it's bingo night and it's looking for a full house. I am absolutely, utterly devastated. Got a feeling this is one I'm not gonna be able to shake for a while.

4 stars though.

#book review #book recommendations #bookish #books #booklr #book recs #review #Eimear McBride #A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing

[aliyafatima]

Got tired of being a faceless daughter, so I becme a poet. Got tired of being a rotting altar, so I became a poet.

- Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta

#aesthetic words #poetry #literature #quotes #darkacademism #dark academia quotes #dark academic aesthetic #dead poets society #wordsthatspeak #poets on tumblr #poetsworld #daughter answer #a girl is a half formed thing #tumblr poems

[lowlandsofthemind]

Dividing from the sweet of mother flesh that could not take me in again. I curled there learning limb from limb. Curdled under hot lamps. Sorrow lapped. I’m so glad your brother’s lived. That he’ll see you.

Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

#eimear mcbride #a girl is a half formed thing #literature #irish literature #irish #divine feminine #book #books #writing #writer

[xbloodandteax]

I ordered a three wheel bike with a lil basket, did my nails and face care while listening to “A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing”, my natural hair color is really starting to come in, my diets been good, I plan to walk and dance more, and soon I’ll be fixing up my teeth after not seeing a dentist for 10 years. Life is going good and I feel young again despite actually being young

#model #coquette #runway model #sadgirl #lana del rey #poetry #girlblogging #chanel #soft #girlhood #southern gothic aesthetic #southern gothic #writers on tumblr #female writers #writeblr #book #bookblr #a girl is a half formed thing

[venusforfran]

Chapter four from Eimear Mcbrides "A girl is a half formed thing" is possibly the most accurate, heartbreaking portrait of religious trauma, single mother abuse and it being spread to your sibling.

#fucking sobbing #sure im an emotional person but #wow #a girl is a half formed thing #book #reading #eimear mcbride #bookblr #2024 readings

[buglaur]

fireworks show 🎆

material preview version is very cute also :)

i struggled with the lighting on this one so badly, but it turned out alright in the end.

i actually started it last year for new years 2023 but never got around to finishing it, hence no progress pictures this time sadly lol. i do have a very low-res, first draft, test gif though

stills 🥳

#first post of 2024 hi happy new years 👋🎉 #ts4 #ts4 render #tw flashing #flash warning #< please let me know if i need to put any other tags #it took me a whole 90 minutes to jump through every loophole possible and make this gif under 10mb.... #and now the qualitys shit #for the love of all things good please do not look at this on mobile #thanks for stickin with me through 2023 :) #i know i don't respond to comments or asks half the time but i read every single one and they make my day #sorry #haven't even started gameplay with them yet and i'm already making renders #spoilers for what relationships may form 👀 #the urge to design the bands first album and photoshoot and everything is strong #but calm down girl you haven't even given them a name yet #i'll try make a sim dump for anon in the next 2 weeks some time #edits #for now goodnight

[blogmollylane]

Newly acquired A girl is a half form thing by Eimear Mc Bride

#fiction #reading #currently reading #books #eimear mcbride #a girl is a half formed thing

[jennycalendar]

your tags on that fandom post got me thinking of how... defensive fandom is of the status quo kinda? like I'm white so this might come off like I'm absolving myself which I'm not, but so often I see "fandom is a queer run space that fixes canon! buuuut we're going to focus on the white men because they're the only ones with depth :) and we're going to make actually good female characters cookie cutter. and we're going to ignore black men and especially black women. but queer run safe space!!"

the minute i got this ask i knew i had to wait until i was at home with my laptop because my fingers cannot fly as fast on my phone as they can on the computer keys. this is literally so much of what is happening in the buffy fandom. the whole thing is built on intrinsic systemic racism n misogyny that's reinforced within the show and that many in the fandom do not critically engage with in the slightest. it is absolutely objectively insane to me that i can make a post going, for example, "hey, isn't it fucked up as hell that the show treats the romani people as evil for wanting angel to suffer?" and then people will come into my inbox or land in my reblogs and go "well, actually, the show treats the romani people as shortsighted and bad at long-term planning, and i choose to read them that way too :)" and fully not see that there is a hell of a problem with THAT statement as well (real thing that happened). OR that kennedy hate is still hugely in vogue because she's mean and bratty and terrible and doesn't know her place!!! OR kendra's death & how easily she is forgotten by the fandom!!!!! OR the entire trend of handing buffy to a person's favorite character like a little trophy they've earned for being tortured and sad, reducing her to a facet of a romantic relationship & implying that this is what she needs to feel and be complete!

OR OH MY GOD THE ENTIRETY OF EVERYTHING SURROUNDING SPIKE. where do i even start with spike. completely serious, i am honestly endlessly impressed by the people who can still handle being fans of spike, because being a fan of spike means having to wade through 20 million fics where That Bitch Buffy must be narratively punished for abusing poor baby spike who only ever wanted to love her and was totally out of character every time he hurt her (and also drusilla is a vapid whore who didn't love spike, ever.) like i am not at this point in time always strong enough to engage with spike content simply because there is so much spike content that is SOAKED in violent misogyny repackaged as Deep, Torrid Romance. it's exhausting to try and find the good stuff when sometimes even the good stuff will throw you a curveball in chapter five or shy uncomfortably away from the racist realities of spike's character. the fact that robin wood has been hated for so long because he had the Nerve and the Audacity to want retribution for his mom, and that he is framed as in the wrong for wanting that, is in and of itself so fucking upsetting to me.

AN Y WAY. i agree with you. and i get what you're saying. i think an awareness of the pattern and a willingness to feel uncomfortable within your own mistakes is always a good place to start. i try so hard never to dig my heels in if i can avoid it.

#asks #i will say that i do have a softness for xander #but a lot of that has to do with the way i see fanon handle him! #either he is written off as disgusting garbage #OR he is picked up by toxic macho assholes who write toxic macho asshole fic about him #where he saves the girls and tells them all off for not appreciating him enough #i think there is something so compelling about his half-formed journey towards trying to redefine masculinity #and it is so fucked up that he is a tool for a narrative so steeped in misogyny #he raises some interesting questions that he himself can never fully answer #i like thinking about a narrative where his growth towards accepting his role as caretaker would feel more authentic #& of course uhhhh My Joyce Thing but again I Feel Like That One Is Obvious. So.

[soracities]

I have. Nothing against this. No defence at all. But. To fall on the spindle. To be turned into the darkness. To be turned into stone.

Eimear McBride, A girl is a half-formed thing

#q #lit #quotes #literature #eimear mcbride #a girl is a half-formed thing #sing me down into the dark #reading #irish lit #m #c

[petz5]

grabs him by the scruff of his neck like a kitten

#ranma 1/2 #not putting this in my art tag i just wanted to post Something #U EVER THINK ABT HOW HIS MASSIVE EGO IS TOTALLY FOR SHOW #like def the result of genma telling him hes the best martial artist in the world one moment then that he's a disappointment the next #and how ranmas secretly terrified ppl will notice hes only good at one thing and then will see how worthless he rlly is and abandon him #(im not saying hes worthless i just mean from his perspective) #and thats why he has a total breakdown in the moxibustion arc bc hes CONVINCED if he cant do martial arts then no one will want him around #its also why its so important that even tho she cant think of anything else he's good at akane still tells him to stay or at least #let her go with him #bc she values him bc hes a person and she enjoys spending time w him. its not abt what he can bring to the table or whatever #what he brings to the table is his kindness and humor and care for others around him!! #anyway that arc doesnt cure his ego by a longshot but it did open the door for him to trust akane way more and share his insecurities #the other half (lol) of this convo could totally be abt desperately trying to live up to being a Manly Masculine Man #but 99% of the time he expresses genuine confidence in himself and not just his abilities its in girl form #i already made a post abt that a while ago #ANYWAY SORRY FOR THE FUCKING ESSAY

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Girls Are Never Gone

a girl does a summer internship with the historical society cleaning up an old estate where a girl died 30 years ago, so she can investigate it for her ghost-hunting podcast

she’s a skeptic who privately thinks she’ll be able to find evidence of non-supernatural, but weird things start happening to her and the other two girls in the house

spooky lake & creepy dolls

bisexual diabetic MC with a service dog, f/f

#The Girls Are Never Gone #sarah glenn marsh #this is. fine. #it’s like. not creepy until maybe 70% imo #why is she releasing episodes of her podcast every few days….even when she hasn’t discovered anything particularly? #is it not much more realistic for people to finish doing these things and form it into a coherent narrative before releasing episodes #Like that wouldn't have worked for the plot but it stood out to me #If it was one of those things where her personality and influencer-vibes is the main draw that would be feasable #but I didn't really get that feel from the two podcast excerpts we got. #Taking out some of the random stuff slowing the first half and putting bits of the podcast in the actual narrative so we got the feel for w #might have made things more interesting. And put more tension between her paranormal podcasting persona and real life skepticism #don't love stuff that engages with true crime fans without actively critiquing it. Like this doesn't get super deep into that. idk #I did laugh when they see the older lady putting salt around the door and question it & shes like 'it uh works for the boys on supernatural #ajshgfhajgf #anyway it was ok i just think it could have been better! #sapphic books #bisexual books #aroaessidhe 2023 reads

[louderfade]

if you decorated your apartment/house/homespace to be beige/grey/off-white/basically a noncolor i automatically do not trust you. why are you afraid of colors. why do you want to live in a realty photograph or a hampton inn. i asked my sister why people do this (she's my go-to for explanations of normies bc she would've been one except she does drugs and was raised by me so got early immunity from full frontal lobe shut down) and she said "people find it calming" like wow really how strange. expressing zero personality/taste calms them down? that shit makes me feel like there could be a threat lurking near. it puts me on edge. it sets off alarms in my instinct center. i feel like a dog who senses an approaching animal has rabies. warning: some shit is deeply wrong with this organism and they pose a threat to your well being. flee without engaging. my grandparents are 90 and conservative and even they had a house with colors and patterns and art they enjoyed. millennial apartments terrify me. our boomer parents were hit or miss with their ticky-tacky suburban houses. some of those houses had a soul but many didn't. "hanging stuff on the walls decreases the property value" and other such statements that prove you're already dead. millennials seem worse though bc they do it to rentals bc they LIKE it. maybe those old women haircuts all the girls had in hs in the 2000s (this is my fav gen z criticism of us millennials bc so fucking true in hs i was like wtf are these middle aged hairstyles how did this become cool everyone looks 35) are responsible for this particular variety of brain damage. from now on i believe in this link. 32 year olds live in light grey horror boxes bc sporting 40 year old hairstyles at age 16 makes you permanently boring and unable to display any taste or personality. these are people who get uncomfortable looking at art or when a friend cries. these are the people who say "i'm sorry for your loss" to a grieving person instead of "life is cruel af my brother no answers come still we must try to survive do you need a fierce hug at this moment or not also i brought you a xanax" like a real human being would. the craziest thing i ever saw my mom do was pay to paint our foyer "eggshell" when the damn walls were already white. this is actual mental illness. not me screaming in the road about how the modern world makes no sense and all the food is microplastic poison. not a single child on earth says their favorite color is light grey or dark white. your soul is sick if beige calms you down. i diagnose you with a severe deficiency of humanity. you need to be hospitalized and forced to discuss philosophy and engage with music until you remember what is valuable about consciousness, which is beautiful as well as cruel, both a gift and curse but it's worth it. i'd rather be awake and have to go to the hospital sometimes when it becomes too much and i end up sobbing drunk in the yard than lobotomized to the point of trading my precious time on earth for money i then spend on beige curtains and a sign that says "caution: caffeinating" to hang in the kitchen proving i am a corpse whose bland heart forgot to stop beating. i mean they shoot horses don't they.

#my sister bought a 3000 dollar grey couch bc some people have way too much money #but she also asked me to make art for her bathrooms and guest bedroom which is human behavior #i made the art and all those rooms have bright colors but her living room is grey and ugly #she's a strange case: half boring popular girl but half formed by my influence bc we're eight years apart and super close #music is the most important thing to her proving she is sane and she does psychedelic drugs to keep her mind healthy #girls without sisters have a harder time i firmly believe this. i would've liked having a brother i think #but sisters help you improve your self-awareness and develop your gender identity/personal way of being female #it's prolly the same with boys and brothers but men are a mystery somebody else can try to solve #personal #text #important facts #live laugh lobotomy

[nymphvoid]

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

#a brutal book but oh so good #girlhood #a girl is a half-formed thing #eimear mcbride #poem void