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kitchen ghosts

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People tell you this a lot when you’re disabled or when you’re dating a disabled person: “your partner should not be your caregiver.”

It makes sense and is good advice. If you are dependent on any one person for all your emotional and physical needs, it creates the potential for abuse. And there are times when you or your partner might be exhausted or need to unwind emotionally and can’t take on any more tasks, even caregiving tasks for someone you love.

But at the same time, caregiving is inherently going to be a part of any crip4crip relationship. I’m writing this while curled up on the bathroom floor. My girlfriend was the one who brought me my emergency medication and my water because I was too sick to get up, even though our plan was to chill and watch a movie. She’ll probably help me to my feet in a few minutes, once the medication’s kicked in, and will walk me back to the couch. Earlier tonight, I made her dinner, while she lay on a heat pad. This morning, I helped her braid her hair.

It isn’t rotten work by any means, but it is work. And this is the work that our bodies need. Either you can do it yourself or you can’t. And if you can’t, your loved ones can step in sometimes. It isn’t unhealthy or wrong to help each other

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Park of the Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, Italy,1952

Herbert List

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reading nook & current reads

behold, the cosy reading nook ft an energy drink.

i haven't been doing well mentally for a (long) while so i only have the mental capacity and attention span for easy-to-read books. right now im able to stomach:

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

An Unsuitable Job For A Woman by P. D. James (a detective novel).

Sailing To Byzantium by W. B. Yeats (a short poetry anthology).

all three books were thrifted across the second-hand stores of Dublin.

my interest in fantasy schools/magical school books has been piqued so im currently looking for recs. i know about the Harry Potter series, the Scholomancer trilogy, book one of the Poppy Wars trilogy, and Aurian but aside from those im stumped. pls share your book recs :(

I reblog bookish content and since I have a home library I also make bookish content myself; aesthetic book pics, reviews, recommendations, quotes, excerpts, hauls and cats.

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“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.”

—Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

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February reads!

Not a huge quantity of reading this month, due to new job, but A Month in the Country is one of my favourite things I’ve read for years, so I’m happy.

What did you read this month?

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Leaving London for a week–– I always miss the city, looking forward to being back already (and who can blame me, just look at this light in the library)

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. 

- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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It’s my first time taking ADHD medication and I just realized The Wizard of Oz still exists in the universe of The Wizard of Oz.

If the books revolved around Baum receiving letters from Dorothy and documenting them, then the books exist in the Oz universe as history books.

This also means most adaptations exist as either documentaries or historical fiction.

If Ozians have tv and computers, the main 4 in book 1 (everyone’s immortal and doesn’t age in the book btw) probably watched the 1939 movie and picked out all the inaccuracies.

They can see everything you’re doing with your adaptations.

They probably even know about the fanfics.

An Oz character could be reading this right now.

I can’t even IMAGINE how bizarre Wicked must have felt to them (even though I love it).

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I don't know if this was obvious to everyone else, but I just realised that one of the reasons why the Hobbit is so effective as a children's book is that while Bilbo is an adult, the skills that make him a hero are all those of a child.

By human standards he's child-sized, which makes him unobtrusive and light on his feet. He can slip by unnoticed where bigger people can't.

He's good at playing games, and even cheats (successfully!) in a way that - let's face it - is not so different to how children try to cheat at games. He's polite in a way that's fully comprehensible to children (rather than, say, being able to perform courtly manners). He's quick-witted, but the trick of keeping the trolls talking is also one that would be achievable for a child.

He doesn't have magic powers, he's not a great fighter, and he's not some kind of Chosen One. There's not much that he does that couldn't be done by a ten-year-old, but the story shows just how valuable all those skills and traits are. It's very empowering.

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I should note, I hate the soulmates "we would fall in love in every universe" trope for the aforementioned "where's the tension and interest and really anything worthwhile" reasons. However, "we would find each other in every universe" fucking rips. We would interact meaningfully in every universe but sometimes we are lovers and sometimes we are friends and sometimes we are bitter enemies and sometimes we'd simply both be in the same HOA.

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i wish i could like things a normal amount instead of my brain being chemically altered every time i come across a piece of media i think is neat

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Piotr Vladimirovitch Wiljams - The Bedroom in the House of the Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1925)

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