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Can't be sincerely dark without being called edgy, can't be sincerely emotional without being called melodramatic, can't be sincerely silly without being called stupid. They're gonna hate every emotion you put in your art no matter what so make it anyway and be as sincere as you can be

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Paris, Texas (1984)

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“weird and unhealthy relationship that cant be categorized neatly as sexual or romantic or platonic but has a defining air of devotion and obsession to it” wins sound of the summer for the 13th year in a row

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LIAM PAYNE DEAD?

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the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides

tw - suicide!

the virgin suicides is centred around five sisters who all commit suicide as teenagers. the novel is told from the perspective of the boys who lived on their street and went to school with them and are still fascinated by the entire situation. set twenty years after the girls' suicides, the boys who grew up with them tell the story of the girls and the eery household the girls lived in, still trying to put together the pieces of what happened to them.

i don't think i'll ever stop thinking about this book. i was hooked into the lives of these sisters from the very start, captured by the manner in which the boys are fascinated by them and want to know more about the secrets behind their family. the story is written in a way that feels incredibly real and i just couldn't put it down.

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a summer of beach reading

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penance by eliza clark

a decade after a teenage girl was murdered by her alleged high school friends in their small coastal town, a journalist decides to write about the circumstances that led to her death.

penance interrogates the difference between true-crime and fiction, questioning what happens when a journalist writes about a real murder whilst incorporating his own fictional elements, expanding upon on the truth, without the disclaimer that the events he discusses are exaggerated and adapted to fit the narrative he creates.

despite the main characters all being adults when this is set, the book focuses on the high school drama that led to the murder of joni which made it felt more YA than i was expecting it to be - a large portion of the book is the characters retelling their teenage experiences.

i was hooked from the very beginning of this book. i loved the way eliza clark portrays the high school experience of these teenage girls - so much of it felt real and believable. you know from the very start of the book who was killed and who did it, and yet i still wanted to keep reading to find out more.

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a coastal summer

cornwall, august 2024

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The kind of love that you don't stop loving even after decades

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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“Portrait of an Unkown Lady, Madame St. F.” (detail) de Gustave Richard (1860-61) à la Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum de Copenhague, Danemark, septembre 2017.

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Reblog this to place a small flower in the hair of prev, and that you're very proud of them

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ripe, sarah rose etter

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'Taking the Moon for a boat ride' by DD Mclinnes

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Uncle Yanco dir. Agnes Varda

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Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life