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Snug. ☺️ From April's Kittens, written and illustrated by Clare Turlay Newberry. 1940. Source.

#cat #harvey

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#bothers me every single time 🫥 #it’s spelled exactly how it sounds how hard can it be #(this is about my last name)

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spring horror is good because of the symbolism of death and rebirth and storms and everything being vibrant but still cold. and summer horror is good because sweltering heat and insects and long days. and fall horror is good because halloween and death and scary movies. and winter horror is good because snow contrasting with blood and freezing temperatures and long nights. btw.

#yes yes yes #horror

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being a hater is good and fun and comes free with being a lover but it's also good to practice being an idgafer. sometimes things are just meant to bait you and/or not worth blowing up your whole day over. don't forget that.

#words to live by

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secrets of farming (1863) - john w. large

"yeowch augh taking damage ough eurgh"

#this is what grading feels like

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exiles

#i love them #the left hand of darkness #ursula k. le guin

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#castle in the sky was my first Ghibli at the age of like 2 or 3 and is probably the movie I’ve rewatched the most throughout my life #studio ghibli

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everyone wish my sweetie Petey a happy 3rd birthday right now!!!

#they grow up so fast #cat #petey

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people love to take "it's spring, you're young, you're lovely, you have a right to be happy. come back into the world" out of context and turn it into something beautiful, but constance doesn't want to come back and helen doesn't actually care about her or merricat, not really. what if the world isn't worth it? what if we can find a home outside of it, within a story that doesn't have a happy ending in anyone's eyes but our own? maybe it's spring, and we're young, and we're lovely, and we do have a right to be happy, and the world has always rejected us so we reject it right back. maybe that is how we triumph and it's not inspirational to the mrs. clarke's of the world, because it's a rebellion against their conformism and hypocrisy, but that doesn't make it tragic. it makes it ours

#SO true #we have always lived in the castle #shirley jackson

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had to use potatolord's picrew because there is no art of these characters

#lmao #hangsaman #shirley jackson

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i have broken the spell of Hill House and somehow come inside. i am home, she thought, and wondered at the thought. i am home, i am home

i read the haunting of hill house for the first time in hopes that it would make me want to draw environments. whether or not i will actually commit to drawing more than a staircase remains to be seen, but the book was extremely good regardless so im very glad i read it.

#oh this is gorgeous!! #hill house meets skinamarink kinda #the haunting of hill house #shirley jackson #eleanor vance

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depression canceled I got in off the waitlist

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jenny holzer's plaques; cast bronze, 1980-1982. "YOU'RE HOME FREE AS SOON AS NO ONE KNOWS WHERE TO FIND YOU."

#eleanor vance #also #orianna halloran #also every other Jackson protagonist lbr

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#lmao #nope 2022 #jordan peele

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in my experience nobody stops having a favorite animal when they grow up but people DO stop asking. well now i'm asking. what's everyone's favorite animal mine is the noble manatee

#orcas!! #and cats of all shapes and sizes of course

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#looks like i probably won’t get into any phd programs 🙃 #feeling like a failure #terrified of not being in school for the first time in my life #terrified I won’t find a job #my options for jobs are also super limited because I can’t drive and public transport here sucks ass #I would be happy to get a break from teaching #but everything else I am dreading so much #there’s still a teeny tiny sliver of a chance I’ll get off the waitlist for the PhD program here #but I’m not very hopeful #ugh

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thinking of constance telling the police those people deserved to die and even though uncle julian says that phrase may be misconstrued i don’t believe her words were paraphrased by lucille i like to think constance did refer to her family as ‘those people’ and it’s a testament to her complicity and she is said to have watched them die around her like flies there is a disconnect to the people around her who are her family she does not panic she waits and she observes and she cleans and this is one of the only true glimpses we get of constance’s headspace

#the least Charles could have done was shoot himself through the head in the middle of the driveway! #constance blackwood #we have always lived in the castle #shirley jackson