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I like when people like a character so way too much that it transcends even self shipping or kinning and becomes more of a patron saint that you pray to type of deal

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oh I see. it was the crime of wanting. that's why I deserve it.

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pope francis? the only francis i gaf about is jude st francis

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obligatory mid april happy birthday jude st. francis post

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Jude when the hyenas came back after going off his meds

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Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

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Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”, Deaf Republic

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The Backwards Man in His Hotel Room by Diane Arbus, 1961 | How I Wrote My Novel: Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life

"For a decade, I thought and thought about that image: I knew I had some words to put to it, but it wasn’t until I began writing this book that I knew that A Little Life would be, in some way, at least, the text that I’d write to accompany that photograph. Although I always describe the book as largely concerning itself with male friendship, I also intended it as a portrait of loneliness — specifically, the kind of loneliness that only city dwellers know."

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3878 from “Interiors/Motels,” by Todd Hido: Alec Soth, Joel Sternfeld, Todd Hido, Stephen Shore, PL diCorcia | How I Wrote My Novel: Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life

"Many of my significant childhood memories also involve motels [...] I still remember the particular bleakness of those one- or two-story structures, usually directly off the interstate, and the particular feeling of suspension — though of course I wouldn’t have been able to articulate that at the time — you experienced while staying in one. [...] I have never forgotten that sensation: the feel of the patterned polyester bedspread that matched the curtains, or the green carpeting worn shiny by hundreds of feet; or the sight of the television bolted to the wall; or the sound, like a river rushing, of cars zooming down the road just a few hundred feet away; or the expectancy I felt as we waited for my mother to return with our food."

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NEW AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR FOR THE TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY???? IM GONNA BLOW UP

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NEW AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR FOR THE TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY???? IM GONNA BLOW UP

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still thinking about this interaction from a few weeks ago when i showed my dear friend mantis the research and outline for my allife fanfic

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Chip Kidd for The New York Times Magazine’s “When AIDS Ends” cover, 1996 | How I Wrote My Novel: Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life

"One of the ways I’d always described the book (to my editor and to my agent) was as a piece of ombré cloth: something that began on one end as a bright, light bluish-white, and ended as something so dark it was nearly black. [...] The other piece I returned to was Chip Kidd’s 1996 cover for a New York Times Magazine article by Andrew Sullivan about how combination therapies could mean the cessation of widespread death from AIDS in the United States, particularly among gay men. I remember being fascinated by the article, of course, but also by the cover, which remains one of my all-time-favorite pieces of editorial art: In it, the type starts out as “sick” — blurry, clotty, barely decipherable — and then, as it moves down the page, gets healthier, crisper, brighter, more legible. I wanted A Little Life to do the reverse: to begin healthy (or appear so), and end sick — both the main character, Jude, and the plot itself."

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I like when people like a character so way too much that it transcends even self shipping or kinning and becomes more of a patron saint that you pray to type of deal

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PART ONE: THE LAWYER

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Me to Jude St Francis