Reading Is Like. I’ve Read 5 Books In 3 Days. I Have Not Read A Single Sentence In Months

i think it is very depressing that like every aesthetic people try to emulate are of people doing things but they themselves are incapable of being somebody that does things… the mall goth 2005 aesthetic revived in 2022 but nobody goes to the mall to be annoying and weird and nobody lets themselves be cringe… the cottagecore aesthetic but nobody knows how to raise gardens or live self sufficiently … the dark academia aesthetic but nobody actually reads books…. The obsession of looking like you are a type of person who does something without actually doing anything … the Instagram effect

I'm not actually smart, I just prep for a class like I'm going into battle

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I'm trapped. #girl

Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson (transcript under the cut) 

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