Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway

female red flag book recommendations 🐇

Also know as, how to be hot

• Boy Parts - Eliza Clark

• My Year of Rest And Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh ( anything moshfegh, really )

• Milk Fed - Melissa Broader

• So Sad Today - Melissa Broader

• American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

• Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion

• Violent Bent Backwards Over The Grass

- Lana Del Rey

• Acts Of Desperation - Megan Nolan

• A Certain Hunger- Chelsea G. Summers

• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

• Ariel - Sylvia Plath

• Delta of Venus - Anais Nin

• The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey

Euginedes

• Conversations With Friends - Sally

Rooney

• Mv Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth
Russel

• The Idiot - Elif Batuman

• The Days of Abandonment - Elena

Ferrante

• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia

Plath - Sylvia Plath

• Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco

Mellors

• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer -

Patrick Süskind

• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

• Bunny - Mona Awad

• Animal - Lisa Taddeo

out of all the couples in greek mythology i UNDERSTAND why persephone and hades were the ones that were taken out of their original context to be made into a cute pair by popculture (and i dont really have an issue w this bc its sooo far removed from the actual canon) BUT.... some real untapped potential with hephaestus and aphrodite in different contexts. worlds hottest woman (barring helen) going to bat for her husband that everyone else thinks is butt ass ugly, but shes like im literally the ceo of hotness and i think hes sexy so either get over it or die idc

maybe propose “Craft Friday”–instead of shopping on Black Friday, you get together with friends and make stuff

it wouldn’t even necessarily be stuff intended as gifts

the only rule is, since it’s an anti-consumerist kinda thing, all craft supplies are things you already have.

WIP or UFO?  make some progress on it.

project you bought supplies for long ago and never tried?  now’s the time

supplies left over from a project you did finish, or decided you never would actually do?  everybody brings theirs and things are freely exchanged

people probably do this already

I hope everyone is having a fucking day

Punk is whatever the state fucking hates so I'm sorry to announce to the functionally conservative but contemporary punk isn't leather jackets and punk rock from the 2000s, it's hyperfemininity, it's transsexualism, it's kinky leather harnesses, it's polyamory, it's Black female rappers, it's reading books from the library, it's pirating media, it's sharing your Netflix and Prime and Spotify passwords, it's patching up your thrifted clothes with cute embroidery until they're in tatters, it's "borrowing" groceries from corporations that make up inflation that doesn't exist, it's supporting small weird freaky artists on Etsy instead of buying the newest Official™️ boring low effort promotional image enamel pins, it's drawing and writing the raunchiest most disgusting and freaky porn you could possibly fathom, it's showing off your tits or top surgery scars in public, it's cis women packing and cis men tucking, it's dykefags and fagdykes and boylesbians and girlgays, it's paying for OnlyFans of trans people fisting themselves, it's making up new genders and sexualities and romantic orientations and editing whole new flags for them, it's refusing to label yourself for the gratification of a government that wants to know under what misspelled drafty legislation they should legally kill you

Punk is being/supporting whatever the state currently fucking despises and wants to burn off the face of the earth, not whatever you think is Punk Aesthetic. If you wanna be punk just to look like you were born in the 80s instead of actually BEING PUNK by supporting the degenerates and the freaks and the sex workers and the BIPOC and the transsexuals and the faggots and the dykes, burn your fucking $800 corp bought leather jacket because you're not Hobie Brown you're just a fucking poser.

Punk is fighting the system beside the ones the system is fighting against, Punk isn't a Pinterest moodboard.

i saw this post earlier about therapists and it reminded me of my old therapist paul, who in my opinion is one of the greatest men alive and who did not put up with my bullshit for even one second

anyway i go in to see paul one week in the summer of 2016, and i’m doing my usual bullshit which consists of me talking shit about myself, and paul is staring at me, and then he cuts me off and says that he’s got a new tool for helping people recognize when they’re using negative language, and gets up and goes over to his desk

and i’m like alright hit me with that sweet sweet self-help article my man, because i’m a linguistic learner and whenever paul’s like here i have a tool for you to use it’s pretty much always an article or a book or something

paul opens a drawer, takes something out, and turns back around. i stare.

i say, paul.

is that a nerf gun.

yeah, says paul.

i say, are you gonna shoot me with a nerf gun in this professional setting.

he happily informs me that that’s really up to me, isn’t it. and sits back down. and gestures, like, go ahead, what were you saying?

and i squint suspiciously and start back up about how i’m having too much anxiety to leave the house to run errands, like it was a miracle to even get here, like i’ve forgone getting groceries for the past week and that’s so stupid, what a stupid issue, i’m an idiot, how could i–

a foam dart hits me in the leg.

i go, hey! because my therapist just shot me in the leg. paul blinks at me placidly and raises an eyebrow. i squint again.

i say, slowly, it’s– not a stupid issue, i’m not stupid, but it’s frustrating me and i don’t want it to be a problem i’m having.

no dart this time. okay. sweet.

so the rest of the hour passes with me intermittently getting nailed with tiny foam darts and then swearing and then fixing my language and, wouldn’t you know it, i start liking myself a little more by the end of the session, which is mildly infuriating because paul can tell and he’s very smug about it 

anyway i leave his office and the lady having the next appointment walks in and i hear what’s all over the floor? and paul very seriously says cognitive behavioral therapy tools.

love will always find you. Both threat AND promise