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super-nova5045 · 5 months

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sylvia plath, todd anderson and virginia woolf (aka ACTUAL tortured poets) watching taylor “im breaking up with my boyfriend for his intense depression and blaming it on him, im dating a racist who enjoys watching woc being brutalized and harasses young woc artists, i sent my fans out on a hate train to attack a young woc actress for a line she had to say as part of her job to show how mentally ill her character was, im dating a maga supporter, i refuse to say anything about a current genocide despite being the most influential person in the world right now, i am a billionaire, i fly 13 minute flights and have the highest carbon emission of any celebrity, i am a known white feminist who only speaks about issues when it affects me and has constantly let my fans get away with extreme racism and even encouraged it by associating myself with known racists” swift call herself a tortured poet (her writing sounds like a bunch of thesaurus words slapped over gabba hanna and rupi kaur-esque poetry that was created purely as a trinket for an edgy pinterest board)

#anti taylor swift #like she can be problematic that’s okay #there are SO many problematic artists i like #but she’s not even that good #like read sylvia plath or virginia woolf or listen to LDR or fiona apple or mitski or lorde or boygenius or olivia rodrigo #aka her peers #and realise how much better they are #they truly write art because they have a compassion and rawness for it #whereas taytay only writes to get more money LOL #she’s so extremely privileged that her life is not at all relatable and now she tries to make it so #by romanticizing the most mundane #thats never been your brand babe now it’s going to sound like dogshit #GUTS by olivia rodrigo is better because it has such an intensity to it. liv means what she says and you can feel it!#fiona apple means what she says when she writes about begging her lover to love her back!#mitski means what she says when she writes that she is self destructive and puts herself in bad situations since that’s all she knows!#lana means what she says when she writes about her suicide attempt at 15 because of constant abuse from her mother and crippling depression #all of it such haunting and beautiful works because it truly comes from the soul and isn’t a cash grab #Anyway i’m so sorry virginia and sylvia and todd #todd anderson #AND JOE ALWYN #joe alwyn my favourite man ever #joe alwyn #dead poets society #anderperry #sylvia plath #virginia woolf #the bell jar #lana del rey #fiona apple #mitski

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amicus-noctis · 2 months

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“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.” ― Franz Kafka

Drawings by Franz Kafka from his sketchbook, circa 1901-7. Literary Estate of Max Brod, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. Photo by Ardon Bar Hama

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nicholasbritel · 1 year

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-"Elm" by Sylvia Plath

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untitledcandicexx · 2 months

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toastery · 10 months

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she wasn't ready

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benitariums · 7 months

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from the shelf [001/???]: the bell jar, sylvia plath

#from the shelf #literature #classic literature #the bell jar #sylvia plath #lit #bookblr #literary fiction #literary quotes #dealing with grief #on grief #grief

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feyres-divorce-lawyer · 8 months

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hello.

#idk i like making good morning posts sometimes #cuz i feel like it’s jarring to my moots dash if i just disappeared for 8 hours and then suddenly reappeared again.#like no worries i was not randomly chosen for a ridiculous quest to retrieve the jingle bells for a jester’s hat i just fell asleep #gooooooooooddd moooooorrrniiiiiingggg #like from the lorax #never watched that btw

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mossmittens · 21 days

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bad choice to reread the bell jar. that fucking fig tree.

#shadowboxing with the fig tree from the bell jar #in My Mind #moss bloggin

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fearandhatred · 6 months

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#just watched a jack edwards video where he read yellowface and let me just give my 2 cents that no one asked for #so i'm asian. surprise. if y'all didn't know already #and i really feel like rf kuang's books are just not that good. in fact i would say they are very catered to white people #who are learning about colonialism or even asian people for the first time #it's like barbie being feminism 101 lol #most of the people i've seen say that babel or yellowface are the most groundbreaking books on earth are guess what. white people!#i've read babel. it was good and she obviously knows what she's talking about because there was so much information in it #but it was not the best book I've ever read. characters were bland. I've read the poppy war. good but not that great towards the end #my friend (singaporean but born in china) read yellowface and she absolutely fucking hates it #she gave me her copy to read but idk if i want to because none of rf kuang's books have stood out to me so far #that's not to say you can't love her books. and if you learn from them then that's great!#but don't treat her as objectively the best writer of our time when it is your own lack of knowledge that leads you to think that #also while we're on the topic #i fucking hate the bell jar #it's so WHITE #and the racism towards chinese people that 90% of y'all don't seem to get from reading the book is quite insane

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ctrl-esc · 10 months

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the bell jar was really good but i couldn’t read it again because it would send me into a deep depression. i feel this way about many books. like girl interrupted or the perks of being a wallflower. the writing had me so immersed i'm scared to return

#these are all primarily also books i read from ages 13 to 16 so maybe that’s why idk #i could be able to do it now #like i want to reread and re experience it but without all the sadness and anger #but if you take that out what’s left?#books #sylvia plath #my beloved #x #the bell jar #girl interrupted #tpobaw

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flanneryculp · 1 year

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oh also one more thing from pinterest anon (sorry if i’m annoying you with these 😭)— i have an atwq board too if you’d like to check it out <3 (with some shameless moxie/kellar shipping bc it’s my personal hc that they got together after witndfon) https://pin.it/1qplbEf :)

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HEY, WOAH, THAT'S SO GOOD. PINTEREST ANON BEING A GENIUS ONCE AGAIN. lets go through all of them!

lemony snicket

so glad we agree with lemony having darkish brown eyes. i don't know how you chose it but all these images just convey loneliness in the best way possible. secrecy, too... big fan of the way you mixed in funny quotes and heartwrenching ones, too.

moxie mallahan

THE MOTHER QUOTE, OH MY GOD? </3 looove the letters and the lighthouse and the stairs a whole lot, too.

ellington feint

my favorite girl! <3 i agree with completely all of this and it is gorgeous. loove the record player one and her outfits!

armstrong feint

ohh all those suits and "i am the beast i worship"... perfect

dashiell qwerty

all v v accurate

pip and squeak

that left photo with the two of them is SO accurate. i didn't really have a clear mental picture of them before but it is definitely that now.

jake hix

just looking at this board makes me hungry. loving the warm tones in this <3

kellar haines

the sweaters look so soft and cozy. to be honest i never found kellar very interesting but i love your interpretation of him--it's making me change my mind :)

cleo knight

so pretty!! i love all these outfits, too.

funnies

THE "ELLINGTON DEFENDERS VS LEMONY DEFENDERS" IS SO ACCURATE. I'M BOTH. especially love the one where lemony doxes stew. he so would. oh, to be on atwq twitter with the aoa...

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these are so accurate (as are all of them!) love the themes of change, a damaged childhood...

association of associates

ohhh my god they're friends. </3 that dead bird one is so sad. i love how many pictures are happy and sad and a little bit of both, but they all go together so well.

lemony and ellington

these hugs are breaking my heart. :') this is one of my favorite dynamics in the book and it's portrayed so well here. i really like how sad their relationship is and with the quotes it's just perfecttt

lemony and moxie

THEYRE BEST FRIENDS!! <3 <3 <3 <3 </3 </3 </3 </3 </3

armstrong and lemony

such a fascinating dynamic that isn't talked about nearly enough imo. i think i'll be thinking about that mirror imagery forever.

armstrong and ellington

i knew this one was going to wreck me before i even opened it and i was right. the text about the pigeon.........

moxie and kellar

so cute. so soft. exactly what they deserve.

cleo and jake

the pajama one is SOOOO accurate!!!! i have been thinking about it for the past ten minutes

lemony and kellar

love the eyes

moxie and ellington

the WINDOWS!!!! the distance, being so close yet so far, more similar than either of them will ever know. the curse of being narrative foils

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thank you so much for sending this, it's so well put-together and i had a lot of fun looking through it! you really have a talent for this kind of thing. :)

#you never annoy me! i like hearing from you :)#also i see your bell jar and shakespeare and jane eyre boards... love your taste in literature

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amid-fandoms · 5 months

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your post made me finally pick up a book after not reading for a while (i have 5 different books on my desk right now, in approximately 10min i will play a dapg video and forget about them)

ohh how i relate 😔 i have a three-stacks tbr on the living room table judging me every day while i continue to binge dapg like i haven’t memorised each video atp

(but i hope you find the focus and motivation to pick up yours 🥺)

#still need to finish the bell jar #and i’m 3 books behind in my book club reading god #dnp need to release me from their hold for at least 3 days a week i can’t get shit done at all #ask

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blossoms-and-petrichor · 1 year

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most underrated thing about the bell jar is the consistent parallel between women being deprived of interiority and autonomy by both men and women's sexism and heteronormativity + mentally ill people being deprived of interiority and autonomy, their opinions and say over their own mind and body sidelined as a symptom or a hassle.

#literally one of my favorite parts of the book is the electric chair because it brings these two ideas together in the same scene with #her able bodied male doctors flippance. that shes just being hysterical rather than examining his methods.#the fact that both men and women in the book keep talking about her lack of beauty or desirability after BEING HOSPITALIZED FOR AN ATTEMPT(#i didn't appreciate the casual racism and homophobia in the book. but i will say at least plath doesnt have esther's digust at her lesbian #aquiantance validated. and tries to treat joan with humanity i wouldn't have expected from plath #the bell jar #sylvia plath

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timeframe2286 · 8 months

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THE BELL JAR BY SYLVIA PLATH AND RETIRED FROM SAD, NEW CAREER IN BUSINESS BY MITSKI ARE THE SAME THING I CANT EXPLAIN BUT THEY JUST ARE

#bell jar #sylvia plath #retired from sad new career in business #mitski #mitski miyawaki

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i-am-the-oyster · 1 year

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