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For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026

“I turned out fine,” she says, staring so far off into space that you can see andromeda reflected in her eyes

A trans woman will say “I’ve made peace with it” while clutching a stuffed animal so tightly that it begins to come apart at the seams

Say it with me, everyone! Understanding logically why you’re experiencing a feeling is not the same as actually processing that feeling!

Healing isn’t forgetting. Recovering isn’t putting something away and never looking at it again. Moving on is a process that includes backslides and relapses instead of demonizing them.

the big three questions of media analysis: what the author wanted to say, what they actually said, and what they didn’t know they were saying

for the last one i don’t just mean oh the author inadvertently wrote in gay subtext or whatever i’m talking about media as a cultural artifact which can reveal a ton about societal norms, biases, ideals, etc. it’s all about positionality and an unexamined positionality is often the most revealing of all

“don’t take it personally” how would you like me to take it then? professionally? romantically? academically?