#PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS BOOK

[ohwarnette]

as long as the lemon trees grow by zoulfa katouh

every lemon will bring forth a child, and the lemons will never die out.

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[heavensdollface]

I'm so gonna re read ALLLLL the shatter me books

Thank you my blessed queen Tahereh Mafi 🙏🏽🩷🩷

[nayswriting]

Who can say if beautiful things are beautiful because they are twisted, or if they are twisted because they are beautiful?

Shibusawa Tatsuhiko, Takaoka's Travels

[thisonesatellite]

People - i need you to listen to me, please.

This is an incredibly valid point, but -- hear me out -- The Neverending Story is a BOOK. A brilliant book FULL of valid points and ruminations on what it means to be human, wrapped in plot and action.

This is a children's book FOR ADULTS. WRITTEN LIKE THAT ON PURPOSE.

It is also TWICE as long as the movie, meaning -- there is an entire SECOND HALF to the story that is the actual, vital part of it. That you need to read as well, to understand the WHOLE POINT.

i am BEGGING you to read it. If i were in charge i would make it required reading for every single human being on the planet.

Since i am not in charge, all i can do is beg. And so i am.

Read the Neverending Story. Please.

Foolish boy. Don’t you know anything about Fantasia? It’s the world of human fantasy. Every part… Every creature of it is, a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundaries.

THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984)

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[loveelizabeths]

love elizabeth s.

[coffirat]

typical sibling fight tbh theyll hug it out or whatever

twst book 7 ending is unreal im sad so heres how im coping

anyways the ending gonna feel like a disney movie musical ending with song and dance 🤝

[fulltimecatwitch]

when they said in Dune that they needed spice for space travel i thought it was used as some sort of fuel but no apparently it's just because your pilot needs to be hight out of his mind to be able to safely navigate big ships into space

[cartoon-enjoyer]

Jumba and Pleakley were left unsupervised for like an hour and the idiots joined a K-Pop group. THIS BOOK CAN'T BE REAL. I MEAN, THE OUTFITS?????

[emariedraws]

This man is NEVER beating the dog allegations

[the-antlered-one]

Oh hehe that's funny, why is the cover of this book a quarter of an inch shorter than the insid-

[yabee-tea]

Nothing gold can stay.

(Closeups under cut)

[frenchublog]

💃...

[shwinlsol]

I apparently have an affinity for drawing grizzled old men and their psychopathic exes

[lazylittledragon]

ok someone please correct me if i'm wrong but am i weird for thinking those 'audiobooks don't count as reading' posts are ableist as fuck????