#jeanette: can

[chipmunkweirdo]

HAPPY CHIPETTE DAY! 💖💜💚

(And the 41st anniversary of the 80s Show)

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY…

CHIPETTE DAY!

[stuworbutwithchipmunks]

Little scenario i have in my mind

[witchhatgnat]

Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is such an amazing semi-autobiographical novel because it is beautifully written, undeniably witty, and deeply sad story about a girl coming to terms with queerness. and it was published in '85. but it's also got so much great stuff about neglectful parents and it makes me shred couch cushions.

the main symbol in the book, the titular orange, is used to represent the neglect Jeanette faces at home. any time Jeanette's Mother is unable or unwilling to meet the emotional needs of her young daughter, she hands her an orange. like, every time. and it's kind of bizarre when and where she'll dole them out. Jeanette gets oranges in the hospital, at church, while walking around town. oranges as a response are so ingrained in Jeanette that when she has gone deaf and can't get her mother's attention, she just takes an orange and tries to sleep it off. like any time she needs a parental figure or someone to help her, she either gets an orange, is given an orange, or goes to someone else because her mother is too engrossed in her evangelism.

and the most depressing thing about choosing oranges as the symbol for neglect is that they have such a hard peel. like of all the most common fruit in europe and america, oranges are arguably the hardest for kids to reasonably open by themselves. even bananas, which also have a peel, are easily opened by most kids Jeanette's age. but oranges require work. you have to spend time getting to the actual sustenance in there. which is an amazing parallel to the way Jeanette's mom takes care of her kid. she provides all of the material goods necessary for a decent life (the family is poor but not destitute by any means), and even some community in the form of church (as toxic as it may be), but she does not provide any labor for her child. she refuses to do emotional labor, which is mirrored by the fact that the oranges are given to Jeanette in the place of emotional intimacy, regulation, and care. Jeanette has to do that part herself. in all ways, she is given the orange, but it never comes pre-peeled. she will always have to peel those oranges herself. she will always need to be the adult in her own life, because she does not have a mother who is willing to do it for her.

[doverstardoodles]

teenage 80's/90's era Alvinette kiss

[forthesakeofoddities]

"When I was locked outside, or the other favourite, locked in the coal-hole, I made up stories and forgot about the cold and the dark. I know these are ways of surviving, but maybe a refusal, any refusal, to be broken lets in enough light and air to keep believing in the world -- the dream of escape."

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?

[8lue8ird]

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[dnjgd]

malkavian(s), huh

[devoutjunk]

“Tell me a story.” // “Tell me how it ends, then.”

THE SEAS by Samantha Hunt / LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING by Jeanette Winterson / WHITE IS FOR WITCHING by Helen Oyeyemi

[spacediddly]

New addition to Team Should’ve Been A Polycule:

[mlobsters]

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

[eleanornicholemiller]

“Does anyone else like to bite the heads off gingerbread men? Or is it just me?”

[alvinmichaelmurphyseville]

“Glasses aren’t marketable for a main character? Okay, so what about Daria, Arthur, and Junie B Jones?”

“Seriously, my marketing team is just looking for the lamest excuses possible.”

[righteousruin]

My favorite thing about Bane's body hair is that he has a lot of it but it's 1) Never under his arms 2) Never long 3) Usually stops above his belt line

This man is out here manscaping

[lime1991]

as much as everyone loves eleanor and theodore together i cant help but think she and simon would be kind offfff a match idk

[ineed-to-sleep]

hi! i was wondering whether it was okay to ship ocs with vincent and pepper? thank you in advance for your response!

Hiii, that's ok, yeah! In my canon they're together but I don't mind them being shipped with other characters or ocs ^^ I just see it sort of like it's an AU (I've even shipped Pepper with other vtmb characters in the past djjcjdkd I'm sure those ships still exist somewhere out there in the vtmb multiverse)

[ichore]

ur name means hunter in hindi :)

Thank you for the message, nonnie ❤️

I chose Shikari as my pseudonym especially because it means hunter in Hindi, whereas only Shika means deer in Japanese and I thought that the "prey" and the hunter being in the same name sounds cool.