The Goldfinch Only Becomes More Heart Breaking In Hindsight. You Read Within The First Five Pages That

washing my silly little apple. cutting a slice of my silly little loaf of bread. putting on my silly little chapstick. listening to my silly little playlist. looking at silly little trees. feeling the silly little rays of sunshine on my face. holding my warm silly little cup of coffee. buying a silly little pretty bouquet for myself. reading silly little fragments of poetry. except everything listed above isn’t silly and little it’s the essence and spice of life like sugar and cinnamon coating our existence and making every moment so beautiful and enjoyable in our own little silly ways

there's a recent vox video about how tiktok contributes to what kind of music is being demanded and put forward on spotify and i think it's also parallel to how booktok is directly influencing the decisions of big publishing companies. they will continue to churn out terrible romance novels that were previously fanfics if that's what would continue to circulate. it's so tiring

instead of actively promoting and advocating for marginalised authors, esp working class authors & authors of colour, in all genres, and hiring more diversely, they’re spotlighting reylo fanfic and the next boring historical or mythological retelling by a white woman. and ppl have the gall to act like it’s not a big deal. (** white) fandom nerds and tiktokers literally have a dominating cultural influence now just based on sheer numbers alone and they want to act like they’re being persecuted for lining the pockets of execs and making it everyone else’s problem

Hello!! Could I request something about similarities between the ocean and space? Please and thank you!!

Kirsten Sims, Mid Air

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Rumi, ‘We are the night ocean filled with glints of light’

M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

Natalie Wood (attrib.)

Lauren DeStefano, Wither

Concept art for Treasure Planet (2002) dir. Ron Clements and John Musker

Joe Bauman, Thoughts about depth and vastness of space

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

John Masefield, Sea-Fever

Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Life of Pi (2012) dir. Ang Lee

pratchett will write an entire book about the grim reaper pretending to be santa claus while the grim reaper’s granddaughter goes about hunting down the dumbass who decided to kill santa, and then right when you think you’re done and the oddly pointed shenanigans are winding down he hits you with “humans need fantasy to be human. to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape,” and knocks you into next wednesday

nothing like rereading a book you loved when you were younger only to realize the author can't write

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “Primitive Eyes”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

when Lemony Snicket wrote “I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you everyday” that hurt me

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