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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

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i just think that in general people need to be more comfortable with interacting with art that makes them uncomfortable, as strange as that sounds lol. imo weve gotten way too used to everything being made to appease us & making us feel good (tm) about ourselves that anything that dares cross that invisible barrier is immediately deemed wrong & immoral