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“why do you like it so much?”
"because i think it’s beautiful. when i look at it, i feel exactly as hopeful as i felt when i was five and i found it. i feel like the world is full of possibilities, and that good things could happen at any time."

in a world of male power—penile power—fucking is the essential sexual experience of power and potency and possession (...)

the normal fuck by a normal man is taken to be an act of invasion and ownership undertaken in a mode of predation: colo-nializing, forceful (manly) or nearly violent; the sexual act that by its nature makes her his.

the tenderness is the inner violence transformed by love and self-knowledge into complex and compassionate passion; and the passion is gentle in that it does not destroy.

being “dead folks,” in baldwin’s world, is nothing so simple as being white. being dead is being ignorant, refusing to know the truth, especially about oneself. remaining ignorant about oneself through a life of inevitable experience is hard; it requires that one refuse to know anything about the world around one, especially who is dying there and why and when and how.

slavery is in the exploitation itself, any kind of forced labor that is done because people who are stronger want it done, including forced sex labor by women simply in response to male desire: “‘therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labour of others and should consider it a sin and a shame.’”

the violence in his marriage—the violence of feeling and the final act of killing—had for him an internal logic and inevitability, because intercourse distorts and ultimately destroys any potential human equality between men and women by turning women into objects and men into exploiters.

... but if i wanted to insult this person, i needed to make sure i referred to them correctly.
“what are your pronouns?” i asked, and the smile that spread across full, glossy lips just made me hate them more.
“oh! he/him is fine. i just like wearing sk—”
“get him the fuck out of here,”

EXACTLY my boy. THIS is punk

"... i’m crazy or something."

reading this line got me have a nostalgic feeling omg

i'd thought it would be difficult to tell him, to let it out after all these years. it wasn’t. rather than letting it out, i was letting him in.

“love is supposed to be good. it’s supposed to make you better,” i told him, and it felt like ripping a scab off a wound that could never heal. my love made him worse.”

????????Now im fucking nervous bro

i shoved him, because i wanted him to fight me for it. i wanted him to prove that he wanted to touch me because this was real and not because it was easy.

he wanted to drag his pain out into the open and force everyone to look at it. they didn’t want to look at it. they never do.

and then he walked in.
and all i could think was that he was beautiful.

SHUT UPPPPPOOODNXBZ

“what do you know, anyway? you don’t fucking know me.”
“no, i don’t know you, but i recognize it in you anyway. you’re like me.”
“what does that mean?”
“it means i'm someone who shouldn’t be alone right now too.”

"the ability to feel shame at disgraceful behaviour and pride in good behaviour, because without these qualities no individual could achieve anything fine"

me myself...pretty good at feeling shame IF i do something wrong; but as for pride– i gotta stop undervaluing my accomplishments, i still do that sometimes. i learned, that, too is a way of letting ourselves down. so everyone take credit!

"... the reason we love (desire perfection) is precisely because it is the human condition not to be perfect instances of anything. love involves deficiencies and awareness of deficiencies"

can i interpret this as: a relationship to be honest and lasting one should desire perfection with their lover and should not aim perfection via their lover?

is anything ANYTHING? fuck me but mostly fuck you philosophers

"there was no equality of desire"
"the lover would achieve the enjoyment at least of conquest"
"the older man is a 'lover', while the boy is merely an object of the lover's erōs"

patriarchy is so fucked up stupid men diverge themselves into two groups so one can still have another to dominate when they are not home to have the power control over women

“you made me wait three and half years for you. you can wait a few more hours for me.”

except you didn't fucking wait for him bitch

"being discreet is hard when we are who we are."

“he’s important to you.”
“he’s important to everything,”

“those aren’t the rules i play by.”
“your rules make corpses,” red hood drawled.

well, the greatest thing besides falling asleep in each other’s arms again, knowing that they are finally not alone anymore.

maybe they thought the other had all they ever wanted, when all they ever needed was each other.

"I don't like you," Jungkook starts.
"I—"
"But I've never wanted anyone so badly before."

😃

I could take him.

...in a fight right

“if you divorce me, i’m fucking suing for emotional damage.” 😭❤️

jungkook laughs under his breath. “yeah, well, when you grow up with everyone making you feel bad or telling you what’s wrong with you, you know the things you wish they would say instead.”

“what would you do if i spit into your mouth right now?”
jungkook squeezes his eyes closed, the coil in his stomach worsening ten fold at the suggestion. “why don’t you try it and find out?”

JESUS

“you’re too vulnerable,” andrew muttered when neil shuddered.
“you’re my safety,” neil replied honestly. “you’re my home, andrew. i don’t need to protect myself from you.”
“shut up,” andrew whispered, and kissed him more firmly on the mouth. “shut up, shut up.”

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