My new favourite thing is mixing slang and colloquialisms from different generations, because the possibilities are endless. What I’m saying is it’s dandy, my home dude. Straight Wizard, m’lady. Sick af, rapscallions. are you picking up what I’m digging, my mellow cats? Not to toot my own horn but it’s the sickest. The illest, darling. A strumpet dont get shivery, me timbers
YES. Also: ”The function of fiction is being lost in the conversation on violence. My book editor, Sean McDonald, thinks of it as “radical empathy.” Fiction, like any other form of art, is there to consider aspects of the real world in the ways that simple objective views can’t — from the inside. We cannot Other characters when we are seeing the world from the inside of their skulls. This is the great success of Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter, both in print and as so richly embodied by Mads Mikkelsen in the Hannibal television series: For every three scary, strange things we discover about him, there is one thing that we can relate to. The Other is revealed as a damaged or alienated human, and we learn something about the roots of violence and the traps of horror.”
Book characters that at first make you think “Holy shit this guy is an asshole” and by the end make you think “If anyone touches this person I will destroy them” are the best tbh
I learned early on about the sanctity of thought. You may be in an abusive environment where you either cannot or will not speak your mind, but you can think whatever you want to think, and no one can hear those thoughts but you. That’s your personality in there. That’s you in there. You may feel small and stifled, tense and silent, but the core of what makes you you is still there. You can’t let it out right now, but you can hear and and feel it. It’s still there and once the environment changes, it will sing aloud again.
You’re safely tucked away inside yourself. Give it time–soon, you’ll be able to stretch your legs again.
if you miss someone who does not miss you, or who is no good for you, or is unattainable, take all the love you once felt for them and spread it around other places. put your love in worthwhile people and things, turn the romance in to passions for hobbies or admiration for others- enrich your own life. focus on yourself and those who actively make you happy.
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