“do You Think He Was Happy With Me?”

going to nyc in may for the first time ever do u guys understand how deeply annoying i’m gonna be. i’ll be posting like omg on the subway this is literally a little life :3 visiting lispenard too god ur all going to be sick of me

i just went to see a little life recorded for the cinema and i’m actually so heartbroken!

"I was raised Catholic," he began. "But you're not now?" the judge asked, frowning. "No," he said. He had worked for years to keep the apology out of his voice when he said this.

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Or he would sleep in the bathtub or in the closet, beetled up as tight as he was able.”

“My poor potato bug.”

Stills from my previous post

bonus per my dear friends request: Jude w/out that fucker behind him

june 12 today. i wish jude knew how loved he really was

a handsome man

moments from a little life

wish jude could help me with my math rn i know he'd be a real one

sharks i’m asking you to resurrect jude and willem. now .

i just made this i’m sorry😭😭

Hanya saying that sometimes people endure things from which they cannot recover continues to offend a lot of takes-posting individuals online who are committed to a bad faith analysis of anything they do not personally enjoy.

Her statement is descriptive, rather than prescriptive. It is not an assertion that at X point, it's no longer possible to recover from traumatic experiences. It describes the fact that some people, for whatever reason(s), cannot or do not "get over" traumatic experiences and are affected by them for their whole lives. She didn't make that up. It's not a pleasant reality, but it is true!

And the intensity of people's reactions to A Little Life leads me to wonder: would any depiction of that reality in fiction would be palatable to those readers?