My thoughts
Parents: We love you
Friends: We love you
Others: We love you
Partner: I love you
Paranoia: They're lying, they're just using you. No one loves you. You're ugly. You're a pathetic freak. Everyone hates you. They all talk behind your back. They wish you were dead. You are unloved. You are forever hated. You deserve to die.
When people say these books are children’s books, as if to demean them, I balk. These books dealt with themes that adults do not fully understand or wish to. It dealt with racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, prejudice, and general ignorance. These books taught us that it doesn’t matter how you were raised, but that you get to choose to be kind, loyal, brave, and true. They taught us to be strong under the pressures of this world and to hold fast to what we know to be right. These books taught me so much, they changed me as a person. So just because they’re set against a fantastical backdrop with young protagonists does not mean that their value is any less real.
me: I wish I had nice legs
me: I wish I had a nice bum
me: I wish I had a nice stomach
me: I wish I had nice hips
me: I wish I had nice boobs
me: I wish I had a nice face
me: I wish I had nice skin
me: I wish I had nice arms
me: I wish I had nice hands
me: I wish I had nice feet
me: I wish I had nice hair
me: I wish I had nice nails
my body: lol no
