A Short Collection On Catering To Men. Gone Girl By Gillian Flynn (2012) A Doll’s House By Henrik Ibsen

Mothers who can’t love // Susan forward

“Medusa lost her beauty—or rather, it was taken from her. Beauty is always something you can lose. Women’s beauty is seen as something separate from us, something we owe but never own: We are its stewards, not its beneficiaries. We tend it like a garden where we do not live. Oh, but ugliness—ugliness is always yours. Almost everyone has some innate kernel of grotesquerie; even fashion models (I’ve heard) tend to look a bit strange and froggish in person, having been gifted with naturally level faces that pool light luminously instead of breaking it into shards. And everyone has the ability to mine their ugliness, to emphasize and magnify it, to distort even those parts of themselves that fall within acceptable bounds. Where beauty is narrow and constrained, ugliness is an entire galaxy, a myriad of sparkling paths that lurch crazily away from the ideal. There are so few ways to look perfect, but there are thousands of ways to look monstrous, surprising, upsetting, outlandish, or odd. Thousands of stories to tell in dozens of languages: the languages of strong features or weak chins, the languages of garish makeup and weird haircuts and startling clothes, fat and bony and hairy languages, the languages of any kind of beauty that’s not white. Nose languages, eyebrow languages, piercing and tattoo languages, languages of blemish and birthmark and scar. When you give up trying to declare yourself acceptable, there are so many new things to say.”

— What If We Cultivated Our Ugliness? Jess Zimmerman (via kuanios)

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Aloha from Hell - Richard Kadrey / x / I Can Fly - Lana Del Rey / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Cut - Catherine Lacey / How’d Your Parents Die Again? - Fatimah Asghar / Margaret Atwood / Courtney Love Prays To Oregon - Clementine von Radics / The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore - Tennessee Williams / Vesuvius - Amber Sparks

Untitled painting by Daniel F. Gerhartz/ excerpts from 'Text me when you get home' by Kayleen Schaefer/ 'Hinds feet' by Daniel F. Gerhartz

that’s literally why she’s so me

harry styles for rolling stone magazine / matty healy for dazed magazine 

“Godhood is just like girlhood: a begging to be believed.” — Kristin Chang

“I was a girl gulping a woman’s grief.” — Melissa Febos

“If I could do girlhood again, I’d ask to be scarier. Less whimpering—more pyromaniac urges, more flirting with kerosene.” — Sally Wen Mao

“to live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing”

Love™️ cont.

— Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas

“I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness” —“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” by Tennessee Williams

—“Poor Little Rich Boy” by Regina Spektor

“Kaling being a total boss lady seems to only make him love her more. An audience member asks if he is going to marry her, to which after only a slight pause he says, “I don’t know.”” —B.J. Novak about Mindy Kaling

“Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.” —The First Bad Man by Miranda July

“But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.” — A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

“She still loves him. This is the fact she wakes up to each morning. She checks it, sometimes, a tongue probing an aching tooth, making sure it still hurts.” —Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

—“State of Grace” by Taylor Swift

“I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.” — De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

“My love for you is more/athletic than a verb,/agile as a star” — Sylvia Plath

“I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you. And Peter does. He sees me, and I see him.” ― To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han 

― Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart by Sarah MacLean

“i knew everything when i was young”

“the admirable crichton” - jm barrie (1918) // the man with the axe - lorde (2021) // picture of alana zimmer // massa - tyler, the creator (2021) // first love/late spring - mitski (2014) // painting by peter brown // this is me trying - taylor swift (2020) // “nothing new” journal entry - taylor swift (2012) // cardigan - taylor swift (2020)