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it’s not “cancelling” her—it’s just using common sense and calling out something dangerous. 

If one of my friends did shit like this, I would literally show up to their house and stage an intervention. It’s not amusing. Not to be a karen about it....

If one of my friends did shit like this, I would literally show up to their house and stage an intervention. It’s not amusing. Not to be a karen about it....

If one of my friends did shit like this, I would literally show up to their house and stage an intervention. It’s not amusing. Not to be a karen about it....

I have no comment on how ridiculously dangerous and stupid that is
 
Especially on windy roads like that. shes literally going to kill someone 

“In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.”
— The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

“If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King   Honestly the whole book

Not exactly a “great literary work”, YA novel but:
 
“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
—Kristen White, The Chaos of the Stars

Some of mine 
 
“But in my arms, she was always Lolita” —Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita 
 
“It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.” —Claire Morgan, The Price of Salt or Carol
 
“Rebecca slashing at her horse; Rebecca seizing life with her two hands; Rebecca, triumphant, leaning down from the minstrel’s gallery with a smile on her lips” —Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

 
 

This is probably my favourite quote ever. It's from 'Les Fleurs du mal' (The Flowers of evil) by famed French poet Charles Baudelaire. Probably his most revered work. It's from the poem called 'Le voyage' (The journey).
 
Mais les vrais voyageurs sont ceux-là seuls qui partent
Pour partir, coeurs légers, semblables aux ballons,
De leur fatalité jamais ils ne s'écartent,
Et, sans savoir pourquoi, disent toujours : Allons !
 
However true adventurers are those that leave
To leave, lighthearted, like balloons
From their fatalities they never stray away
And, not knowing why, they always say: Go !
 
I don't know if my traduction renders justice to the original version. But, this poem and most particularly this excerpt, just evokes the sentiment that real adventurers are fearless, bold and they're always ready to go onto the next big thing. Always eager and awaiting adventures. I don't know why, but I've always found that particular poem to be beautiful and cheerful. 
 

Just checked, and Mariners is still my top played song THREE YEARS CONSECUTIVE (18,19,20). Although it’s neck in neck with Cardigan and keeps changing between the two (with the rest of the folklore tracks not far behind)

ok but can we talk about how Venice Bitch is my most played song by her and I've been tracking my listens from her since 2014? I posted this on the lana subreddit a while ago but might as well post it here (really extra ik but I just ADORE this song so much (and I also may have candy flipped to it multiple times and have had the most amazing experience with it):
 
After the release of Mariners Apartment Complex, I remember thinking nothing could top NFR’s lead single, but honestly I was blown away the first time I heard Venice Bitch. It’s honestly such an amazing song. I’ve been a Lana fan for so long now (probably around 7 years) and no song has haunted me as much as Venice Bitch has. It’s so somber and hypnotic yet full of love and longing. It reminds me of summer sunsets at the boardwalk but also springtime breezes at the park. The music video even gives me chills even if it’s essentially a loop: from her singing and having fun with her friends, the streets of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, the ending with her just crouching down with lights flashing on her. These past two years I would just listen to Venice Bitch whenever I was sad, happy, anxious, or wanting to create new memories. It’s my most listened to Lana song of all time. While the song is almost 10 minutes it only feels like 5, and the ending lines “if you weren’t mine I’d be jealous of your love” will always haunt me and make the wait worth it. The psychedelic synths and guitars and the voice overs really make this song, as well as the angelic chorus and slowcore verses. I really hope there’s people out there that enjoy and relish this song, I think it’ll be one of my favorites for life. The fact that I’m growing older with this song is just the cherry on top of the cake. I really hope she can do something like this in COTCC. 
 
(and then I replied to a comment with: [we're getting high now, because we're older] and "as the summer fades away, nothing gold can stay" is so heavy for me, especially since it feels like time has been flying and the world has changed so much ever since the song was released. The fact that she basically samples 1960s/70s lines ("you're in the yard, I light the fire" and the "crimson and clover, over and over"), paired with the vintage music video footage, I feel really connected with both the past, present, and future. It's such an extraordinary and almost spiritual feeling for me.)
 
 

the UO cover's hands down her worst cover it looks so dated i'm glad ben told her to change it up

timeless album, a classic, one of her best, how to disappear still ahead of its time

I’m so confused bc in “Never to Heaven” she seemed to denounce religion and the idea of God...actually a lot of her work seems chaotically agnostic, but her interviews are opposite? 

...I run a literary review/book club Instagram account...

"dying is an art, like everything else, i do it exceptionally well. i do it so it feels like hell, i do it so it feels real. i guess you could say i've a call" - sylvia plath, lady lazarus. 

this song kind of sounds like it might have been meant for someone else? just bc her vocals are so low it almost sounds like backing

So apparently after shutting down a biopic about her that has already been written, Madonna is writing her own screenplay with Oscar-Winning writer, Diablo Cody. She posted about it on both her Instagram stories and IGTV. Not much is known about the project, other than that she was describing her 90s tours to the writer. 

I’m so confused bc in “Never to Heaven” she seemed to denounce religion and the idea of God...actually a lot of her work seems chaotically agnostic, but her interviews are opposite? 

I wish she’d go back to the alt-rock sound she started out with. OOTB is one of the best pop albums of the 00s, and she wrote a handful of those tracks completely by herself (including her magnum opus: Thinking Of You)...
 
Ever since she switched to a more electronic/modern sound (to compete with Gaga?) her writing quality as drastically fallen. NRO is the only thing she’s released post-Teenage Dream that can even touch her earlier works; and it’s sad because I think she could deliver another really great OOTB style album

Here we go again with the psychology by proxy 

Here we go again with the psychology by proxy 

Here we go again with the psychology by proxy 

Here we go again with the psychology by proxy