It is easy to cut up a woman’s body if you’re a woman. You know it all so well! It doesn’t call for either grief or pity. You know how to set about it, which flap of skin to lift off, which joint to go for, which bit of cartilage to destroy. You know what shame to awaken, what suffering to revive, what susceptibility to trample on, what jealousy to exacerbate, what longing to thwart, what desire to frustrate, what death to repeat—to go on repeating endlessly, not letting the pain ever ease. You’re attacking yourself, but from a distance. You protect yourself and survive while the other dies, disappears into the void to which she seems always to have belonged. You yourself are reborn, set off again. More impersonal than before, and more assured.
Julia Kristeva, tr. Jody Gladding | The Severed Head: Capital Visions
I hate that lung cancer is stigmatized.
My dear friend has lung cancer from secondhand smoke. He's 16.
Whenever he tells people that he has cancer, they react with sympathy. Then he tells them it's lung cancer.
Boom. No more sympathy. Just 'why did you smoke?' 'Did you vape?' 'You're a little young for that, aren't you?' 'Why do you have cancer?'
Fuck you. He's 16. He can't breathe. He's gone through chemo and every type of treatment under the goddamn sun. We goof off and act like kids and he has to sit down to gasp and choke for five, ten minutes.
I hate that lung cancer is stigmatized.
Fuck everyone who contributes.
right now you might be in a situation that you think you won’t survive but six months ago you were in a situation that you didn’t think you’d survive and two years before that you were in a situation you didn’t think you’d survive and the point is you will always surprise yourself and you will always make it through
“I’m afraid of time… I mean, I’m afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I’m afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can’t fix them without time.”
— Ann Brashares
no no see, domesticity IS hot. how intimate it is to make food with someone, to share a bed, to brush your teeth at the same sink, to shower and use the same towels and the same laundry soap, to grocery shop and hold hands through the aisles, to be cornered in the kitchen to make out while a pot of pasta boils over on the stove. to fall asleep and hear them snoring softly and laugh at the little trail of drool out of the corner of their mouth. to spend money together and share chores and pick on each other for your weird habits. it's not always perfect and beautiful, but it's comfortable and familiar and I just think it's neat.
I don't know why solitude would be a balm for loneliness, but that is how it always was for me in those days,
Marilynne Robinson, from Gilead
Being a goofy lil' goober, a strange fellow, is a very weird experience if you think about it. 'Cause like, even if you know you're weird, it just kinda doesn't register with you most of the time. You do things that are just like "yeah, that's about right, checks out" to you, but would seem like a sign of total derangement to other people
2021년 1월 29일 금요일, 20시 12분의 달. 오늘은 달의 99%가 차있는 날이고, 월령은 16.3입니다. #moon #sometimesmoon
오늘도 달이 아주 밝습니다. 그런데 날씨도 여전히 춥네요. 따뜻한 밤 보내세요. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKoJ9F6J1aJ/?igshid=1wnk3fjbkmxc5
i get paid next wednesday, June 11, but between then and now i have.......... 20 entire dollars to my name! YAY CAPITALISM
i need to put gas in my car and get food to last the week, if anyone can donate or help spread the word that would be greatly appreciated <3
Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977