hmm..

tbh................ i love tess of the d'urbervilles and other fictional womyn who suffer from events outside of their control n usually end tragically/die and its fckked up but i identify lol this 2 deep im going to sleep

Come to me, come to me, and save me from what threatens me.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

I'm so happy I'm not a lowkey TERF like 99% of Tumblr and that I'm not on Tumblr anymore and that I'm going on vacation this weekend and don't have to think about the internet or interacting with anyone for 3 whole days.

Pain had never been a friend to me before, but now it kept me still. It forced reality on me and kept me sane.

- Kindred, Octavia Butler

I read books about slavery, fiction and nonfiction. I read everything I had in the house that was even distantly related to the subject--even Gone With the Wind, or part of it. But its version of happy darkies in tender loving bondage was more than I could stand.

Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books--a book of excerpts from the recollections of concentration camp survivors. Stories of beatings, starvation, filth, disease, torture, every possible degradation. As though the Germans had been trying to do in only a few years what the Americans had worked at for nearly two hundred. 

Kindred, Octavia Butler