" I was born
because you were starving "
- Ocean Vuong, Dear Rose
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Reason to Live #8903
Mango that is perfectly ripe. – Guest Submission
(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)
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Watermelon Stop & Go © by andrilucas https://flic.kr/p/2nwPfct
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There are moments in life that are points of no return: we make a single choice and our futures are determined. It might not even be a choice. You might be forced beyond the outer horizon with no chance of escape. There might be no other option.
— Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe: A Novel (Scribner, July 11, 2023)
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— ripe by sarah rose etter
cassie has lived her entire life alongside a miniature black hole, a constant threat and companion that feeds on her depression and anxiety. we follow her as she moves for a new job to a dystopian-like city where men set themselves on fire, people defecate on the streets, and a virus gradually creeps across the globe. 'ripe' is a surrealist, candid look into mental illness, toxic workplaces and families, corporate culture, and the glaring wealth disparity due to late-stage capitalism
the world that etter has created here is a mirror of our own. an unsettling reminder that as we move towards late-stage capitalism, we move towards dystopia. written with brutal candour, etter outlines how our society is in a state of cataclysmic decline. through the use of a sad millennial protagonist that many of us will identify with, the reality of our future becomes horrifyingly inescapable for the reader
all in all, ‘ripe’ is a memorable 2023 release that urges us to acknowledge the severity of the capitalist hellscape we’re currently living within, calling on us to question the role we're playing in our society's current descent into a real-life dystopia — i'd definitely recommend!!
ripe is released in the UK on august 8th
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Joan Pope, Love Song (2024 digital collage)
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SPEED AND PERFECTION
How quickly the season of apricots is over -
a single night's wind is enough.
I kneel on the ground, lifting one, then the next.
Eating those I can, before the bruises appear.
Jane Hirshfield
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as a trans woman reading ur fics ... ripe was for the GIRLS WITH DICKS (i.e. that will be the closest i ever get to reading a !reader fic w a transfem reader unless i actually decide to write it myself and i mean this in the loveliest way possible thank u for writing that 😭)
RIPE WAS FOR THE GIRLS WITH DICKS🗣️🗣️
hahaha this is great and i'm really glad you enjoyed ripe, love you so so much!
if you ever end up writing something with a transfem reader send it my way, i'd love to read it👩❤️💋👩
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there's something visceral about.... marion probably knows well enough that bunny doesn't have a fucking bank account at the age of 24 but randomly believed her friend when she said she saw him at a bank, that he randomly became obsessed with murder out of the blue one day and then died and his friends didn't miss him, that his best friend was absolutely ... a sight to behold at the funeral, that the corcorans are neither warm nor really fond of her (where is she talking to his mother? they were planning on having kids together and his parents never spoke to her the whole time she was there), that brady corcoran specifically is described as the least like bunny himself, that they invited "a ton" of people from hampden college but none of her friends (but random people they don't know??? and bunny didn't know that well either??? sure) are ever mentioned being there, they didn't even speak to her when he was presumed missing, but she went right back there and dealt with them for at least another 10 years, and tied herself to them eternally through blood.
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