#getting the girl

[cheeses-degree]

Just finished Getting The Girl by Markus Zusak!!!

I liked it a lot. I really like how he writes, and I feel very seen every time I read something of his.

It took me a while to finish though because y’know, midterms are coming up, I’ve been sick, etc.. Cameron is just like me fr though big fan

“My problem came, I think, from being inside aloneness for so long. I always just watched girls from afar, hardly getting close enough to smell them. Of course I wanted them, but even though I was miserable not actually having them, it was also kind of a relief. There was no pressure. No discomfort. In a way, it was easier just to imagine what it would be like, rather than confront the reality of it. I could create ideal situation, and ways that I would actually win them over.

You can do anything, when it’s not real.

When it is real, nothing breaks or fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground, and that night, in the park, I had never felt so real. I’ve never felt so lacking in control. It seemed to be the way it was, and the way it would always be.”

[muffinlance]

My baby daughter got her adorable puffin-print dress absolutely CAKED in mud crawling around the yard and my first thought was "oh no her beautiful dress"

And my second thought was "oh huh it really WOULD be easy to unconsciously steer her away from playing in the dirt. Unlike my son, whose outfits are usually some kind of solid dark easily washed pants plus a shirt that doesn't trail in the dirt like a dress does."

Anyway something something gender roles start getting shoved on kids from literal birth, but with a little time to think about things, YOU TOO can let your children of any gender absolutely destroy their clothes in the dirt pit they're digging in your garden

[yourfavecharacterisqueer]

hypothetical scenario for you all: the real king arthur returns. you meet him and you welcome him into your home. what is the first thing you do with him? keep in mind, this is a man from the 500s (he died in 542), and you are from the 21st century (2024).

[sully-s]

Listen, if I had the time I would just make Justice Leauge the mockumentary, lol.

[oars]

girl are you sure???????????????

[girlsnighteverynight]

[dduane]

Meanwhile, in Italy...

"Former culture undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi defends the girl who climbed Giambologna's Bacchus statue in Florence miming a sexual act. 'It is a transfiguration: when art is truer than life. An amorous exaltation. No real man can compete with Cellini's Perseus. A drunk girl performs a critical act, not an erotic one.'"

[elainiisms]

female protagonists will literally go through 30 life altering traumas at the age of 16 and you ppl still have the audacity to call them annoying bc they cry about it and act like teenage girls

[l0caltiredgirl]

when i want fluff/angst fics and all i’m getting is smut

the struggle is real

[novaneondream]

Anyways what kind of music do you think Eri listens to

[stardustmuseum]

girls will be like “this shade of green 😍” about every shade of green they see, and they’re right

[lonepower]

yes i Am paying real money to make you all look at our new dog. we've had her for 3 hours and if anything happened to her I'd kill everyone in this room and then myself. her name is Tater Tot

[fairycosmos]

how does us politics affect places outside the us? you guys are obsessed with us

i think if you cracked open your skull there would just be a bunch of cotton wool in there

[variksel]

i hate you ai art i hate you "unalive" i hate you youtube premium i hate you twitter 8$ checkmark i hate you nfts i hate you therapy app advertisements i hate you non-chronological timelines i hate you instagram reels i hate you subtle tiktok filters that cant be turned off i hate you family bloggers i hate you ads on true crime episodes i hate you facebook i hate you vr glasses on chickens i hate you dystopian social media

[communist-hatsunemiku]

Digiral

[yooo-lets-go]

what sort of music does simon listen to- and what are the others’ opinions on it when they inevitably discover it?

They probably wouldn’t share a playlist

Plus Roach: