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Please please please I know we all love Friends and Chandler was our favourite character and Matthew always put a smile on our faces and that’s all amazing but can we please please please talk about this:

“I've had a lot of ups and downs in my life. I'm still working through it personally, but the best thing about me is that if an alcoholic or drug addict comes up to me and says, 'Will you help me?' I will always say, 'Yes, I know how to do that. I will do that for you, even if I can't always do it for myself! So I do that, whenever I can. In groups, or one on one.

And I created the Perry House in Malibu, a sober-living facility for men. I also wrote my play The End of Longing, which is a personal message to the world, an exaggerated form of me as a drunk. I had something important to say to people like me, and to people who love people like me.

When I die, I know people will talk about Friends, Friends, Friends. And I'm glad of that, happy l've done some solid work as an actor, as well as given people multiple chances to make fun of my struggles on the world wide web...

but when I die, as far as my so-called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people.

I know it won't happen, but it would be nice.”

- Matthew Langford Perry

(August 19, 1969 - October 28, 2023)

#this has been on my mind too today #matthew perry

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Bisexual witches. 🖤 🔮✨️

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🍁✨🎃Welcome to 13 Days of Halloween!! 🎃✨🍁

Ok. So. I maaaaay have made a bet with my friends that I could finish this pile by the end of the month with absolutely NO DNF’ing so .,,,,we’ll see how this specific TBR pile goes, but I’m honestly really excited!!! I used to avoid Horror books, but the more I explore the genre, the more I really appreciate it! (Junji Ito (my beloved) is definitely to blame for this.)

Regardless of the time crunch, I think I’m doing alright with it: I finished Her Body and Other Parties last night and I’m gonna try to post a review of that soon, but now I’m tackling Dowry of Blood. I’ve heard a lot of hype about it, so I’m really excited and maybe a little nervous, but I’ll keep you guys updated!!

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one of the spookiest things I’ve read in awhile

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i had a dream about fucking… vampire discourse on tumblr like;

“reminder that blood sucker is a slur”

“vamp-born-vamps are valid if u got bitten later in life you’re not part of the vamp community” 

“support vamps who drink human blood, support vamps who drink animal blood, support vamps who drink animal and human blood”

#this is golden #like omg #thfuck #txt

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‘Life is like the big wheel at Luna Park. … They are all trying to sit in the wheel, and they keep getting flung off, and that makes them laugh too. It’s great fun.’ -Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall

‘Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.’ -Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

‘A whole Gothic world had come to grief…there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the green sward; the cream and dappled unicorns had fled…’ -Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

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JOMP BPC - October 30th - Read in October

an incomplete collection of what I read this month (because I read a lot of books from the library that I don’t have copies of yet lol) but it’s been so good to finally have a good reading month 🥰

and we’ll see these numbers completely evaporate when NaNoWriMo starts in a couple of days 🤭

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went from strictly reading one book after the other to reading four at the same time and damn what a game changer! you mean to tell me that it would have been an option to switch to a different book when I don’t really feel the vibe that moment all along? what a concept.

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On Sunday I got a copy of the Silent Patient from Shakespeare & Co. Despite it being incredibly touristic I actually really love coming here! People rarely spend a lot of time upstairs, so it’s always so nice to use the reading spaces to go through a quick poetry book or to do some journaling :-)

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A few new books added to my collection 📚 Homer’s Odyssey, in a recent translation by Emily Wilson, which I’m looking forward to reading; new-to-me-authors I am collecting Clarice Lispector and László Krasznahorkai; new releases from my beloved Charco Press🖤

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went to a bookstore, came home with a book, absolutely no one was surprised.

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Hoi Soetkin! I hope you're having a good day 🥰🌻🌷 Can you recommend a book by a belgian author?

oh totally forgot to answer this one eons ago!

I think I was indeed having a good day! thanks for the message!

mh, i'm not very fond of most belgian and dutch authors. I don't like our style of writing novels, nor most subjects of the stories. They're often either very harsh or very melancholic or just plain, like i don't know what else to call it: bland or colorless perhaps?

but lemme think:

for children's books I absolutely adore everything written van Marc De Bel, he's the true hero of Flemish children literature! LIKE ABSOLUTELY GODLIKE THAT GUY. He also lives in the same town my husband lived in during his teen years.

for adult books the choice is harder as it's like picking either pest or cholera... but uhm no one, honestly, those books mostly make me feel bored out of my mind. And I need books that take me on a rollercoaster of emotions. Good or bad, ugly or pretty; i don't care, but write with emotions, make me feel passion.

Other children authors i really love are:

Thea Beckman, she was the hero of historical fiction for kids, like whoaaa!

Bart Moeyaert writes beautiful books about emotions and trauma

Jan Terlouw, a Dutch author, who writes fantasy and historical fiction alike, loved his books a lot growing up!

another author that gets an honorable mention is Dirk Bracke, his writing wasn't brilliant, but he made a lot of themes discussable, such a LGBT+, lover boys and forced prostitution, child soldiers in africa, drugs and addiction, etc, and that was great to talk about in school, like start with one of his books and then continue the lecture and discussion from there. He also lived in the same town I grew up and his book were really important to me when i was about 13-14

Thanks for asking! I loved writing this answer :D

#books recs #flemish authors #mine #asks #ask #txt

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The Never Tilting World, Rin Chupeco [thoughts]