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Hello boymiffy! i wanna get into ursula k le guin! what do you recommend to read :)?

oh helloooo!

ok to start here is a post with great links to online resources such as websites and some of her essays – one of my faves is the carrier bag theory which is also available online

two of my fave of her books are the left hand of darkness (more about gender) and the dispossessed (more a discussion of society and class), which are great – the left hand of darkness is shorter and slightly less discussion of theory so is a greater starter point for her fictional worlds! all of which are available for pdf/epub here

i have not read but have heard good things also about the lathe of heaven if that is something u might be intrested in!

otherwise an easy start to her style of literature are the wizard of earthsea books which you shouldn't stay away from just because they're categorised as kids books !!

if you just look her up on youtube there is the full film of 'the worlds of ursula k le guin' (which i have not seen but looks good) and several of her talks/interviews which are all super interesting

happy reading ^_^

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learning to cheerfully dislike other people is I think a critical component of getting along with people who don't like you. Like as soon as I got a solid grasp on the fact that there is a wide swath of humanity that gets on my nerves and that it's my problem, not theirs, it got easier to be around people I find annoying. Once that's settled, it's easy to flip the reasoning around and conclude that if someone doesn't like me, that's a quirk of their own strange and arbitrary tastes, not a judgment upon either of us as a person. You can't like everyone. Not everyone will like you. It's fine. It's not a personal attack in either direction. We can exchange cordial nods across the room and then go on with our lives

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Achievement unlocked: discovered piece of media at exact right time in your life to experience maximum peak emotional impact and infatuation

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listening to you’re on your own, kid is just like… i’m in high school and just got invited to my first party. i’m with the popular kids and my crush is there. they don’t even look at me. that’s okay. i can change. i can be better. my parents are getting older. is it okay to drink yet? i never grew up. i want to feel accepted. i want to leave. it’s summer break again and i don’t know where the years went. i’m in my college dorm alone. why did i ever want to leave? is time going like this for everyone else? can someone give me a sign i’m on the right path? i want to start over. everyone else knows what they’re doing. everyone else has someone. i never had friends. i miss my friends. why did i think this is what i wanted? i should have been kinder to myself. there’s still time. i can still change.

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so how are we feeling

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"you're on your own kid" is such a good song because it shows how the phrase went from this horrible realization of loneliness but got turned into this empowering message that no one will ever be able to define you or rip you up in taters without your permission because no matter what happens, no matter how many mistakes you make and how many people you lose at the end of the day you can take comfort in the fact that you had always been on your own. you can face everything on your own. you have no reason to be afraid. you can face this.

you're on your own kid. you always have been.

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I want time to be quiet. I want a week where there’s nothing expected of me. I want some light snowfall. I want a home I can rearrange the furniture with every season. To bring friends over to be warmed by the fireplace. I want to paint the walls. I want to curl into you until I feel my hurt fall asleep. I want to pluck rosemary from the windowsill. I want to feel comfort again. I want so much space in my heart for the light to fill.

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this was always going to happen.

matthew stover, david levithan, margarita karapanou, aeschylus, karese burrows, richard siken

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I have no idea why ATLA is trending, but I support it. I will always support it.

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LMFAOOOO????

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I WANT PERMANENT MARKS, LIFE.

i want my body to be a physical capsule of memories. i want to see the passage of time in it, the wrinkles, the scars, I want everything. I WANT MY HODY TO SCREAM I LIVED

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

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When Donna Tartt said "forgive me for all the things I did, but mostly for the ones that I did not" and when M.L. Rio said "whatever we did-- or, more crucially, did not do--" I felt that morally grey guilt in my soul

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* hey z-lib.is is apparently a scam/fake site. rn z-lib is only accessible thru tor, telegram, and an android app (which if i'm understanding correctly is downloaded via the tor site)

Oh shit! This was worrying and I looked it up. According to a Reddit thread, the new one is not just a scam. They also make you download malware and don’t give you PDFs

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hi sarah! do you have any recommended reads on loneliness? thank you <333

the lonely city: adventures in the art of being alone, olivia laing

ethical loneliness: the injustice of not being heard, jill stauffer

loneliness and me, claire bushey

the reading summer: fragments on loneliness, eve lion

on solitude (and isolation and loneliness [and brackets]), sarah fay

cabin fever: a reading list for the perpetually isolated, kara devlin

also my loneliness tag!

and some fiction that deals with the theme:

salt slow, julia armfield

severance, ling ma

the world by night, anjali sachdeva, in all the names they used for god

briefly, a delicious life, nell stevens

a tale for the time being, ruth ozeki

crushing, sophie burrows

aloners, dir. hong sungeun (ik u asked for readings but adding just one movie!)

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tewkesbury, behind enola: hey i love you

enola, busy solving the central case of the movie: y'all hear something?

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“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been;”

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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on dissociation from the self

fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet// clementine von radics // francine pascal, sam// morne venter, the happening // catherynne m valente, the orphan's tales: in the night garden