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@lovesdaya

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"angry women burn brighter than the sun"

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yoichi midorigawa / dostoevsky

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Keep reading

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alright mooties i'm back from uni prepare for some aggressive booping 🫶🏼

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― Emily Dickinson

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I’m the founder of the “I suck at keeping the conversation going, but I really like talking to you” club

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Elvira Madigan (1967)

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just wanna find the softest grass i can find and lay down in it and look at the sky for a very very very long time

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In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind – that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that’s constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences: in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality – its inexpressibility.

Lin; twenty-three. Master's in Translation studies. | Libra sun; Pisces moon; Pisces rising. Soul of an Aquarius. | Certified Squatting Slav & your esteemed Eastern European Witch. | Coffee-flavoured. Sharp-tongued. Fluent in sarcasm. Aspiring wine aunt. | Keen on linguistics, magic realism, feminism, human tragedies, medieval gender studies, religious symbolism, Islamic poetry, iconography, Slavic folklore. | Writes about female suffering, world's injustices, Eastern European people and their traumas, inner worlds, medieval warlords, intrigues of the powerful, rebels and outcasts, poetic lust.

CURRENT WORKS:

VOIEVOD (masterlist)

OPEN HEART (works on AO3)

CRIMES OF PASSION (works on AO3)

THE WAYHAVEN CHRONICLES (to be published)

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New idea: instead of writing the fic, you come over to my house and I tell you the entire plot while I pace my tiny kitchen. There’s a cup of tea, warm in your hands. The words don’t stop and the affection never leaves your expression.

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‘A Deep Sea Idyll’ by Herbert James Draper (1863-1920)

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mornings

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Reminder that you're actually interesting. Your hobbies are interesting, your interests are interesting, you are important and loveable and people appreciate you. You're just a loveable, interesting person.

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i wish i could save my mother.

@/veniennes on tiktok // Elena Poniatowska, from "La Flor de Lis," published c. January 2011// love drought - beyonce // Athena Farrokhzad, "My Mother Said" // Oleander, by Janet Finch// Hannah Green from "Night Terrors" // Sharon Olds, “Holding To A Wall, Treading Saltwater” // Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mom // take care: mothers, daughters, and inheriting self-hatred by Ella Wilson // tumblr user honeytuesday // Marge Piercy from "our neverending entanglement", Made In Detroit // Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers// supernatural season 12 ep 22 // Silas Denver Melvin, from Grit: Poems; “Twenty” // Hayan Charara, from Mother and Daughter

for @shestrying

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on regret

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If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!