― Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

henry winter: *accidentally shoots and kills a duck during target practice, is freaked out, quite shaken and has to put his pistol away and take a breather*

also henry winter: *kills a person* that was fun we should do it again

Michael Cunningham, from “The Hours”

  ― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

[text ID: To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.]

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I actually think eldest daughters should be allowed at least one instance in their entire lives to just completely lose their shit

Ewan Fernie, The Demonic: Literature and Experience

I hate how the booktokification of the “unhinged woman” genre has completely reduced the concept of female rage to just “girlboss” without taking seriously how important it is to unequivocally portray female rage.

Throughout the history of literature, we’ve been given countless instances of women in despair and in sadness but save for a few writers (take Euripides, for example), we’ve rarely ever been given angry women who aren’t the villains or the foil for the perfect poised passive princess. Female rage has constantly been subdued and erased or warped into “she’s just batshit crazy” in pretty much every society.

And now that publishing and media marketing has reduced women showing rage in books to the “white hypersexual girlboss with a knife”, instead of uplifting the way women are allowed to have more dimension and sympathy in their visible anger than ever in literature, the media still isn’t taking this subgenre seriously.

writing tip:

if you push buttons on a keyboard, letters will appear on the screen. and with that power you can do anything

“The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

Divine feminine

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