Elena Greco from My Brilliant Friend (2011)

Nino Sarratore telling Lila “I’ve loved you since we were children” as a ploy to seduce her to satisfy his own fickle desire, only to abandon her after 23 days vs Enzo Scanno saying the same thing expecting nothing in return and only to show Lila that in him is somebody she can trust to do right by her *chefs kiss*

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante // Salt, Nayyirah Waheed // Gaia Girace as Raffaella Cerullo, L'amica Geniale

it's incredibly transparent that mainstream reviewers of the neapolitan novels (my brilliant friend series by elena ferrante) explain the divide between lila and elena in terms of elena having discipline, yet lila was somehow just too unfocused, pessimistic, or chaotic to be able to achieve her goals. some of them cast lila as a villain that needs to be contained by elena in writing; both a cruel misreading of lila's character but also one that tries to make elena complicit in seeing her friend as the antagonist of their story, something I don't for a second believe.

liberal press seriously can't handle, is unable, to admit, that lila cerullo didn't go on to become a famous writer or else lift herself up by her bootstraps because her family didn't care and couldn't afford her education, so she was forced to stop after elementary school? her father throws her out of a window when she complains. the point wasn't that she wasn't crafty enough, it's that you can be crafty and brilliant and if the opportunities aren't available to you it doesn't matter. lila potentially could have become the big boss of her neighbourhood if she'd seriously wanted to, but she wasn't interested in gaining power by such illegitimate means, she wanted to be better.

elena was dedicated and worked incredibly hard, much harder than those who were more fortunate had to, certainly. but she was also lucky. various things converged for her in such a way that she was able to leave the poverty of her childhood and create a different life for herself, and this wasn't because she was somehow better or more capable than lila, or because lila had deficiencies of character. to seriously read it as though that was the case, as though this was what ferrante was trying to tell us, is a reading so obviously false and cynical that it's bizarre these people wouldn't feel shameful publishing it. fuck the working class, they're mostly just lazy and incapable, right? oh but elena's alright, she has nice manners.

just asked my professor if he wants to feature on a song LMFAO

levelheaded normalday preppers have been stockpiling sensible amounts of coffee and frozen meals for when the world is the same as it usually is

‘what’re u going to do w ur degree’ nothing. i’m going to start blowing things up

Teeth are bullshit. What do you mean you’re decaying. Get a fucking grip. You’re a bone now act like it. You don’t see my finger bones decaying from jerking it too much now do you

why is the metal community so pressed abt this it’s literally hilarious. 10/10. love it. i want it.

i want that slut covered in blood and traumatized by his actions

PARAMORE at Grimey's.

Being on your phone in bed at home during your free time: this sucks I'm wasting my life away what am I doing

Being on your phone at work:

Why is every other upper class houndsman like this

i just realized Taylor's writing style on ttpd is slightly different than her normal approach (not entirely new, she's dipped a toe in on other albums but she's full throttle with ttpd), with the train-of-thought run on lyrics and the weird lines that seem out of nowhere, and that can be somewhat attributed to who she was hanging around when she was writing it. she became close with Phoebe Bridgers who's known for her train-of-thought lyrics, and also sadly M*tty who writes very out-of-pocket lines but still manages to have them not stick out like a sore thumb during the songs... i think she tried her hand at both of those styles but those artists have been doing that their whole careers, she's just trying it out for the first time and that's why i think it just didn't work as well

"we learned the right steps to different dances" is such a beautiful way to explain that nobody did anything wrong but it does not work out if you have different goals or different ideals of life, maybe sometimes things don't work out and it is nobodys fault

t.s - the prophecy 🌙🖤