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fascinated by the way constance blackwood’s life revolves around food after the death of most of her family and her very public trial for their murders. the way all of her books from the library are about cooking, the quiet respect with which she handles the groceries, the tradition of the blackwood family of making preserves, her attention to the vegetable garden, especially the way that merricat isn’t allowed to handle food in their household anymore. it’s the one thing she had no control over before and look what happened. it’s the thing that dictates her entire life because it changed it once forever in a way that she never gets to come back from. i also think there’s something to the way we obsess over the things that are the most frightening and dangerous to us, maybe the things that have done the most damage to us. and when you need that thing to survive, there’s something kind of inevitably intriguing about it especially when it can give and take away life at the same time. like how the difference between medicine and poison is dosage. and then after the fire, the townspeople bring her and merricat food as a way to apologize. but at the same time, they start rumors that they poison children and eat little girls. for the blackwoods, food is always wrapped up in violence or hatred in some way

Grady Hendrix is the only male author I trust to write women

this is just a visual representation of your brain mistaking social media as a productive use of your time

I have to remember that what is obvious to me may not be apparent to the next person. That doesn’t make them dense or frustrating or imperceptive. Just means their learning process differs from mine

When I get annoyed with someone for asking me how to log into Hulu on their TV... why am I getting upset. Why am I being snippy. Why does this bother me so much. Just help them!! You’re the one being the clown and by you’re I mean me!

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