#sarah ali

[human-being-on-earth]

This parallel is so sad 😭

[idksjdhshdhd]

Me: “Huh… Crazy Together by Sarah Ali is REALLY byler-coded…”

Also me, a moment later: “WAIT…”

[manon-herself]

Ok now i really need Sarah Ali to make another "crazy together" song but from Mike's pov.

[miwiromantics]

I’m sorry, did Sarah Ali write ‘crazy together’ for byler. Like someone pls tell me she did because the similarity is actually terrifying.

[oreniaa]

my friend: [in a sentence] crazy

my friends (well some of them): I was crazy once. And they put me in a round rubber room. A round rubber room with rats. And rats make me crazy.

me: YOU SAID WED GO CRAZY TOGETHER THAT YOUD BE BY MY SIDE FOREVER. // YOU GO AND TELL HER THAT THE DAY YOU MET HER WAS THE DAY YOUR LIFE BEGUN THE SAME DAY I HAD TO REUN BEHIND YOU CAUSE HOW YOU NEVER KNEW

[sarahali199x]

The Animals of the House I Loved (also in Dutch) Links

Darnit, I cant post the links for some reason....

Replace DOTS by actual dots

DUTCH:

ia601506DOTusDOTarchiveDOTorg/16/items/0-full-anon-huisdieren/0%20FULL%20anon%20huisdieren.pdf

driveDOTgoogleDOTcom/file/d/1NrR7XazqjC6peqANnCvbNTZkLAOwgo69/view?usp=sharing

docdroDOTid/J6zoa8O

English:

archiveDOTorg/details/0-english-pets-online-full

driveDOTgoogleDOTcom/file/d/1sfDZR7QGL9P3FYpDSRJvYayzx95V1nUw/view?usp=sharing

docdroDOTid/ZGXTCBR

[leveloneandup]

katiezelem To the people who have made LA feel like home🌴🩷

[marwyn]

HOTD and Labyrinth

[geryone]

Theophanies, Sarah Ghazal Ali

[moonys-library]

maybe the reason why men in books are so attractive is bc they’re usually written by women

[alpacaroni-and-cheese]

Leah, Fatin and Choice.

Not to wax lyrical about a TV show that was cancelled over two years ago, but The Wilds is pretty good, actually.

All 8 of the main characters (yes, eight, the boys don't count) are some of the most complex, layered and interesting characters I've ever seen. Each of them, on a surface level, seem to be one-dimensional.

Shelby, for example, is the goody-two shoes Christian flawless pageant queen. But she isn't, not really. She's a closeted, anxious mess, who is about one or two mental breakdowns away from shaving her head at any given time. She cares far too deeply, leaving her heart exposed and vulnerable.

Or take Rachel; on the outside, she's hard on everyone, angry and resentful, and bound for diving for America in the next Olympics. But in reality, she's burnt out. She might be hard on everyone around her, but she's hardest on herself. She suffers from bulimia, brought on by a few ill-advised words from her diving coach, and isn't even on the team anymore. She is angry, and she is resentful, but I think she has good reason to be. So when she does release that anger, it's an inspiration for us all.

You can do this kind of analysis with all of the characters, but the two I want to focus on in particular are Leah and Fatin.

Leah, the boring, ordinary, average girl from the Bay, who thinks too much and leaps before she looks.

That doesn't even scratch the surface of who Leah is.

She's whip-smart, and not in the "knows the first 20 digits of pi" Hollywood style of smart. She notices things and tucks them away in her brain until she has a moment to herself where she can ruminate, drawing connections where maybe there aren't any, and draw conclusions based partly on evidence and partly on a near-infallible trust for her gut.

She analyses. Not in the (BBC) Sherlock kind of way where she just magics up the answer out of thin air, but in her own way. She sees something is out of place, and digs around in the rocks and dirt, bloodying her fingers and knees until she can figure out what's wrong.

She gets taken advantage of by a man far older than her, and lies about her age so he'd sleep with her. She's hopelessly, helplessly tied to this pathetic man, every aspect of her life tethered to him. So when he finds out the truth and removes every part of her from his life, she is left drowning in his wake. She clings to the book he wrote and the sick annotations he left for her like it's a lifeline, when it's actually pulling her further beneath the waves.

Leah broods, she ruminates and she analyses, until something gives way.

She runs headlong into walls until either they break, or she does.

Next, let's talk about Fatin.

Promiscuous, princess-y Fatin, who's never done a day's hard work in her life.

In 1x05, Fatin runs away from the group. In 1x04, she was (metaphorically and a little bit physically, albeit accidentally) mauled by Leah. Her soft underbelly exposed and prodded. The others have all made judgements on her character, and in their eyes she has come up short. So, she chooses to remove herself from the equation, and runs away, like a thief in the night.

She finds a waterfall, practically saving all of them from dying slowly of thirst. And Leah, who pushed her, shoved her, rejected her last episode, spearheads the campaign to find her, after a little encouragement and wake-up call from Dot.

Fatin is not used to forgiveness. We see her mother let things go, but her mistakes are not forgiven, and most certainly not forgotten. Her hurt is minimised and dismissed by her mother, so she turns to her father for support. He is her best friend and confidant. He always has her side.

But then she discovers the photos. Her father has been cheating with lots of women over a long period of time. He has been lying to and betraying their family for years. She lashes out and chooses to send his nudes to everyone in his contact list, not thinking it through properly. When this is inevitably drawn back to her, her father turns on her, and her mother just sits and watches.

She isn't familiar with forgiveness, so when Leah offers it to her the first time she chooses to willingly accept it, offering it back in turn.

Leah makes the choice to burn Jeff's book, severing the tether holding her beneath the water. She's free, and can breathe.

Fatin becomes her confidant, listening to Leah's theories about the island and offering reasonable explanations for what's going on, and it works for a while.

But Leah becomes obsessed with the island. She's convinced something is wrong, and works herself to the bone to discover the truth, at the expense of her own safety and sanity.

Fatin reaches out to her, tries to wade through the darkness clouding Leah's thoughts and pull her back into the light.

But she fails.

When Leah runs into the ocean, desperate to find a way out, Fatin can do nothing but watch. Rachel overcomes her fear of the water and drags Leah back to the beach. Dot wants to sedate her, just to be safe, but Fatin refuses. Leah's had enough choices taken away from her, so she lets Leah choose.

Fatin, who knows how damaging it is to have your autonomy stolen, gives Leah this choice. Fatin, who knows Leah had many decisions made for her in the past, lets her decide for herself. She lets Leah make the choice to live.

[human-being-on-earth]

WAIT THIS IS SO BYLER CODED

OMFG IM SCREAMIMG RN

SKAHSOIJSSHUIAJSVDHSWADSHASHSA

(I'm not 100% sure if Sarah Ali made it byler coded on purpose or not. Either way it's 100% byler coded)

[thedevilsniki]

My roman empire is them.

[nexttopbadbitch]

Jawbreaker (1999) x Cruel Intentions (1999)

[inlovewithquotes]

“I was there that day, you know,” Alis said, folding her spindly arms across her chest. “I saw Morrigan arrive. Saw her reach into that cocoon of power and pick you up like a child. I begged her to take you out.”

My swallow wasn’t feigned.

“I never told him that. Never told any of them. I let them think you’d been abducted. But you clung to her, and she was willing to slaughter all of us for what had happened.”

“I don’t know why you’d assume that.” I tugged the edges of my silk robe tighter around me.

“Servants talk. And Under the Mountain, I never heard of or saw Rhysand laying a hand on a servant. Guards, Amarantha’s cronies, the people he was ordered to kill, yes. But never the meek. Never those unable to defend themselves.”

“He’s a monster.”

“They say you came back different. Came back wrong.” A crow’s laugh. “I never bother to tell them I think you came back right. Came back right at last.”

-A Court Of Wings And Ruin

[leveloneandup]

THANK YOU, MY ANGELS