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“And thank God, because I do not want simple. I do not want easy or small or uncomplicated. I want my life to be messy and ugly and wicked and wild, and I want to feel it all. All those things that women are made to believe they are strange for harboring in their hearts. And I want to surround myself with those same strange, wicked women who throw themselves open to all the wondrous things this world has to offer.”

— Mackenzi Lee, The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

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 when sylvia plath wrote “the silence depressed me. it wasn’t the silence of silence. it was my own silence.” and when anne carson wrote “why does tragedy exist? because you are full of rage. why are you full of rage? because you are full of grief.” and when jenny slate wrote “and i am getting older but i am not growing up and my heart is getting soft dark spots on it like a fruit that has gone bad.” and when virginia woolf wrote “to want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain.” and when susanna kaysen wrote “when you’re sad, you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.” and when margaret atwood wrote “already my childhood seemed far away – a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. did i regret its loss, did i want it back? i didn’t think so…” and when gillian flynn wrote “i was not a lovable child, and i’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult.”

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Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me? A quote from Little Weirds by Jenny Slate engraved in a wooden spoon, 2022. instagram

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for halloween i’m being the most scared girl in the entire world

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since the tender age of 11 i have been so Scared due to everything being so Scary

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women who can’t feel normal unless the kitchen is clean make some noise

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this is so embarrassing. i want to love & be loved & drink really nice tea & eat really nice pasta & not feel like the loneliness is a part of me anymore. i want a herb garden

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devita ravani behind the scenes of pear magazine

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this is not an onion headline

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when mitski said “i love everybody because i love you” and when mitski said “it’s just that i fell in love with a war and nobody told me it ended” and when mitski said “im not happy or sad just up or down and always bad” and when mitski said “i was so young when i behaved 25 and now i find i’ve grown into a tall child” and when mitski said “though i close my eyes i know who you pretend i am” and when mitski said “i always want you when i’m finally fine” and when mitski said “i thought i’d be done by 20 but now i’m 29 and the road ahead appears the same” and when mitski said “if i gave up on being pretty i wouldn’t know how to be alive” and wh

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this is your brain on media

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i think the thing that makes me the most emotional in life is the realization that everything i have and everything i see has been touched by other people. someone designed the logo of my favorite tea bags and someone decided which paintings should go in the calendar hanging on my wall. someone built the roof above my head and someone paved the street outside my house. someone made this pair of glasses specific for me, someone picked the pear i ate with my lunch and someone designed my favorite sweater. every book i read, every song i listen to, every film i watch, tens, if not hundreds of people had to be there to make it happen. even if i am alone, i am always surrounded by other human beings - a fact that makes my heart squeeze in on itself everytime i remember it.

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Sleepy Hollow (1999), dir. Tim Burton Melancholia (2011), dir. Lars von Trier Game of Thrones (2011-2019), cr. David Benioff, D.B. Weiss Edward Scissorhands (1990), dir. Tim Burton Pacific Rim (2013), dir. Guillermo del Toro The Fades (2011), cr. Jack Thorne Reign (2013-2017), cr. Laurie McCarthy, Stephanie Sengupta Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), dir. Quentin Tarantino A Little Princess (1995), dir. Alfonso Cuarón Crimson Peak (2015), dir. Guillermo del Toro

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Watch: Hilarious Party Over Here sketch gets at the dark truth behind “mansplaining.”