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be the kindness that you seek…

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babygirl I'm avoiding things that I don't even know about

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you’re in her dms I’m at the lowest point of my life

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real or not real 3 (2) (1)

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"but know this: in my mother's first language, the word for fracture, for crack, is the same as the word for gold."

gold, eugenia leigh

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Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma (2022)

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Punishment excludes and excises. It demolishes relationships and community[...] I could not believe it had taken me this long to realize that punishment is not love. In fact, it is the opposite of love. Forgiveness is love. Spaciousness is love.

What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

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"The more I read, the more every aspect of my personhood is reduced to deep diagnostic flaws. I hadn’t understood how far the disease had spread. How complete its takeover of my identity was. The things I want. The things I love. The way I speak. My passions, my fears, my zits, my eating habits, the amount of whiskey I drink, the way I listen, and the things I see. Everything—everything, all of it—is infected. My trauma is literally pumping through my blood, driving every decision in my brain."

What My Bones Know

Stephanie Foo

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knives & nothing more

hanif abdurraqib prestige \\ stephanie foo what my bones know \\ franz kafka letters to milena \\ heidy steidlmayer knife-sharpener's song \\ richard jackson basic algebra \\ mary oliver march

kofi

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“Being healed isn’t about feeling nothing. Being healed is about feeling the appropriate emotions at the appropriate times and still being able to come back to yourself. That’s just life.”

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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“Strength left me some while back. / I tremble, I blur.”

— Euripides, Herakles (tr. Anne Carson)

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“After screaming, [Cassandra] calls out the name of Apollo sixth times, then again a seventh time, but the seventh time, by shifting the inflexion of the name slightly, she shows its etymology. Apollo’s name is cognate with the Greek verb apollesthai, “to destroy utterly, kill, slay, demolish, lay waste.” By crying out “Apollon emos”, Cassandra can designate the god as “my Apollo” and “my destroyer” at the same time in the same words.”

— Anne Carson, excerpt of Cassandra Float Can, from Float

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“CHORUS: Brave girl. KASSANDRA: People never say that to a lucky person, do they?”

— Aeschylus, Agamemnon (tr. by Anne Carson)

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*twirling my hair around my finger* hes just soooooo burdened by his sense of duty and the insurmountable weight of being a mere man written into the role of a myth

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In retrospect, one thing I kinda like in ATLA is how Zuko never tells the gaang how he got his scar.

It would have been cool to see their reactions to Zuko's story and see how their perspective on Zuko changed. And I have no doubt that he tells them about it at some point. But this way, it doesn't come off as emotional blackmail, with him trying to paint his actions as 'Yes, I hunted you across the world, but I actually had a really good reason."

If he did, he might have had a better chance of joining the Gaang, but he doesn't. In traditional Zuko fashion, he takes the most challenging route possible.

Zuko takes full accountability for his actions, even though they came from a place where he felt he had no choice. Because at the end of the day, he realized that even though his father put him on his avatar's path, he was the one who zealously attacked them at every opportunity. He isn't letting himself off the hook for anything.

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personally I think an underutilized ship dynamic is "this is so ill-advised that we are both aware on some level that it cannot possibly end in anything but a breakup so acrimonious that we'll spend the rest of our lives hunting each other for sport, but we have decided to keep making out with each other anyway."