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A siren, a female being made of liquid stars and all the unnecessary wars. A beauty that is overpowered by rejection an overdose of a vitamin…
Well, I’m begged for redemption only i lure to self destruction.
I sing about broken promises that lasts a lifetime and fears that grow as you do... grow viscously, and as big as the void an emotionally absent parent can leave behind in you.
I’m one year closer to my mid twenties It took me a life time to realize It’s not love that I’ve been starved from
It’s the comfort of feeling seen, without dressing myself up with all the glamorous words that I weighed myself down with since i was a child
forced to communicate; only to please. Now I sing, and it’s out of tune but I seduce and I ruin.
I was loved growing up, i felt so even when no one ever gave me a definition to what love really means.
Maybe they didn’t even know it was missing.
I felt indestructible so I kept stripping my love from misconceptions; only to be left with suffering
Now I know better. It’s either leaving or being left and both in a way are synonyms of love.
the residual of that love is almost nonexistent among the memories that resemble a never ending internal bleeding.
That being said, tragedies stands out more and i use them like bookmarks to my memories.
So i love; and i leave.
I cut into myself with my own teeth dissecting the pieces with my tongue knowing very well how much it will hurt me to taste something that i don’t recognize…
I spend most of my hours dwelling on all the parts of me that make me a duplication of my mother
hypocritically i pack them in the carry on bag that’s always open on my bedroom floor
So ready to leave; just like my father. he emptied more of me in his bags every weekend for business trips
Carving unintentional hollows and leaving them for my mother to fill.
I thought he was the one sacrificing himself, until I noticed that alot of my missing pieces are still under his bed.
Mama doesn’t like it when I point out where my father went wrong she loves him too much, and i .. i reflect that love; by leaving
I know they did their best molding me into a human that knows how to survive, but that’s all I know now.
I don’t understand affection, nor how to accept it in my body.
Not even when I crave it; i suspect it’s because I’m too full of myself and if I feel this way… why would I expect anyone to carve themselves out to fit me in ?
Anyway, I don’t know how to ask women for acceptance and men can’t stand me cause I don’t flatter them
Love sounds like a curse to me.
What if I loved for all the wrong reasons?
my body understands the mechanisms to create another life from love, but i don’t.
I fear that the taste of motherhood will resemble that of a defense mechanism.
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•Quotes: Alexander Pushkin/George Eliot/ Leo Tolstoy/ Chris Cleave/Clarice Lispector/ Anne Carson/ Kiki Nicole/ Richard Siken/ Lidia Yuknavitch/ Sylvia Plath/ Franz Kafka
•Original context: Sinligh
•Art reference:
1. A young beauty reclining on a bed By Enjolras Delphin. 2. Details of John William Godward's: Eurypyle (1921) 3. Details of John William Godward's: Eurypyle(1921) 4. Painting by Roberto Ferri (details). 5. The Table (1971-80) Antonio Lopez Garcia. 6. Painting by Alex Venezia. 7. Narzissin by Josef Fischnaller. 8. Painting by Valeria Duca. 9. Painting by Ricky Mujica.
#sinligh poem#on childhood#on female rage#quotes#alexander pushkin#george eliot#leo tolstoy#chris cleave#clarice lispector#anne carson#Kiki Nicole#richard siken#lidia yuknavitch#sylvia plath#franz kafka#web weaving#word weaving#blotched words#compilation#art compilation#art parallels#literature#poetry#parallels#girlhood#motherhood#feminsm#feminine rage#feminist#fuck the patriarchy
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concept playlist vii
playlists based on book quotes
“...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.”- tim o'brien, the things they carried
“the true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.” - michael chabon, the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay
"and i ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. that is what the scar makers want us to think. but you and i, we must make an agreement to defy them. we must see all scars as beauty. okay? this will be our secret. because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. a scar means, i survived.” - chris cleave, little bee
“what is the soul? what color is it? i suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while i was dreaming and fail to return. i did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.” - patti smith, just kids
concept playlists i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi
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Tutte le cose che reputiamo eccezionali sono semplicemente prese in prestito dalla normalità,
e a un certo punto dobbiamo restituirle senza preavviso
“I coraggiosi saranno perdonati”, C.Cleave
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Siz makineler dünyasında yaşıyorsunuz ve kalbi çarpan şeylerin düşünü kuruyorsunuz.Biz makineleri düşlüyoruz çünkü çarpan kalplerin bizi terk ettiğini gördük.
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Always in the mood for a good book 📙🍃
#stoner#420 friendly#420community#marijuana#420nation#aesthetic#puff puff pass#420#weed#bookaddict#little bee#chris cleave#710#cannabiscommunity#mine#girls who smoke weed#new york times best sellers
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Bir yara izinin asla çirkin olmadığı konusunda bana katılmanızı rica ediyorum. Yara izini yapanlar bunun aksini düşünmenizi isterler. Ama siz ve ben, onlara kafa tutma konusunda bir anlaşma yapmalıyız. Bütün yara izlerini bir güzellik olarak görmeliyiz. Tamam mı? Bu bizim sırrımız olsun. Çünkü, tecrübelerime dayanarak söylüyorum, ölürken yara izi olmaz. Yara izi 'Ben kurtuldum' demektir.
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A scar is never ugly...
I have literally just finished reading Little Bee by Chris Cleeve. What an eye-opening book about so much strife in this world, it makes the problems of my own seem so small.
It was not an easy read – some very difficult scenes to work through – but I could not put it down.
“On the girl’s brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like…
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- Paz é quando as pessoas podem contar umas às outras seus nomes de verdade.
Pequena Abelha – Chris Cleave
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“I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.”
Chris Cleave, Little Bee
#wehavewords#chris cleave#little bee#words#quotes#life quotes#life#quotes about life#true words#book quotes#book inspiration
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The Other Hand by Chris Cleave Book Review
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave Book Review
“Death, of course, is a refuge. It’s where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It’s where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.”Excerpt from: Chris Cleave, Little Bee
Synopsis from Goodreads and Wikipedia:
From the author of the international bestseller Incendiary comes a haunting novel about the…
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Gold by Chris Cleave
Building on the tradition of Little Bee, Chris Cleave again writes with elegance, humor, and passion about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption.
Gold is the story of Zoe and Kate, world-class athletes who have been friends and rivals since their first day of Elite training. They've loved, fought, betrayed, forgiven, consoled, gloried, and grown up together. Now on the eve of London 2012, their last Olympics, both women will be tested to their physical and emotional limits. They must confront each other and their own mortality to decide, when lives are at stake: What would you sacrifice for the people you love, if it meant giving up the thing that was most important to you in the world?
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Ogni contrattempo si può risolvere,
così come ci si spazzola via la cenere da una manica o si caccia fuori un'ape dalla finestra aperta
“I coraggiosi saranno perdonati”, C.Cleave
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...bir yara izinin asla çirkin olmadığı konusunda bana katılmanızı rica ediyorum. yara izini yapanlar bu konuda aksini düşünmemizi isterler. ama siz ve ben, onlara kafa tutma konusunda bir anlaşma yapmalıyız. bütün yara izlerini bir güzellik olarak görmeliyiz. tamam mı? bu bizim sırrımız olsun. çünkü, tecrübelerime dayanarak söylüyorum, ölürken yara izi olmaz. yara izi 'ben kurtuldum,' demektir.
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“To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well—here is the truth—you have to talk yourself out of it.”
Chris Cleave, Little Bee
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This is the story of two women. Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice, the kind of choice we hope you never have to face. Two years later, they meet again - the story starts there ...
#book: little bee#author: chris cleave#genre: african literature#genre: historical fiction#year: 2000s
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If I were a cartoon review youtuber, some of my videos would definitely be:
Underrated Animated films you should see vol. 1 - ongoing
Complete look at Skunk Fu! and all it's episodes
What's ACTUALLY wrong with Illumination films (spoiler: it's not the designs). And that video would probably have a sequel ironically unironically accusing Chris Meladandri of being a White Walker who rips out movies' souls.
Disturbing Animated Film Iceberg.
A calming, sweet short retrospective on The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends.
Killing off the idea of "endgame". Tho, tbf, I'm definitely going to be writing that thesis statement down someday. I guess in video format it'd be a big "did this series REALLY fall off cuz the creator catered to fans?" breakdown of a few shows.
A video about 9. Because of course I'd make something about 9.
Politically heavy (but not horror) animated films.
An essay explaining the difference between what I want to see in a story vs what's actually good in a story; and likewise the difference between what I personally do/don't find offensive and what's objectively offensive as a viewer.
The dichotomy and standards between different talking animal films.
A review about Mary and Max and why I like it but it's okay if other autists don't. which would be a broader video about how to listen to the opinions of demographics and minorities and not to treat any one as a hivemind.
Movies that I dislike but aren't actually bad.
Movies I love that aren't really all that good.
A deeper dive on my take that Steven Universe was always deeply flawed but having an otherwise working ending; where Star vs was a well-written show that utterly biffed it on the ending.
The Swan Princess is secret conservative propaganda.
The 31 dumbest things in Oogies Revenge.
Zero's Journey is the only good TNBC continuation.
13 Horror animated Feature Films. For Halloween, of course...
My issue with Dreamworks' stans and why I dislike How to Train You Dragon 2.
My issues with Anti v Proshipping. Def would be a multi part series explaining why I think most of the problem is just people really aggresively bulling one another -AND THEN, getting into heinous fandom shit that no one talks about and the ethics of children online and freedom of expression.
Prolly then would make an exclusive (cuz it's dirty) review abt the rights of r34 and adult artists and what they had to/have to put up with both from peers and websites banning explicit material.
What absolutely doesn't work about Pocahontas and Anastasia.
I'd do a series called "Spitball Re-haul" wherein I go through a revisioned show's premise and then explain all the reasons for the changes. I'd make:
How I'd rewrite The Owl House season 3.
How I'd rewrite Star vs the Forces of Evil "Cleaved".
How I'd rewrite Strange Magic.
How I'd rewrite Raya and the Last Dragon.
How I'd rewrite Seasons 4-8 of Friendship is Magic.
My tinfoil hat video on Disney trying to profit so much off of fans is hurting their bases.
Mapping out and analyzing different types of crossover fiction, their merits and their issues with story-keeping.
Mythological and cultural animated films.
and finally, for when I'd muster up the strength:
an HBomberGuy-type callout/deepdive into MysteriousMrEnter and Lily Orchard and how they've made cartoon reviews worse.
#cartoon#cartoon criticism#animation criticism#cartoon reviewers#animation review#critical fandom#the owl house critical#svtfoe critical#Steven Universe critical#mysteriousmrenter#mr enter#lily orchard
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