Isabel Allende, The House Of The Spirits // Anne Carson, Red Doc> // F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

Isabel Allende, The House of The Spirits // Anne Carson, Red Doc> // F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // 肉包不吃肉, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun // Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (trans. Carol Brown Janeway) // Heart Like Yours— Willamette Stone

mb for @cheekblush

I hope it's okay to share but I totally get what you're saying about not being as open with people you aren't close with & being told you're "bad" for it (you're not). I'm not comfortable at all with being super open and loving with people who aren't super close to me and it's always been an awkward thing for me - like you said, why would you (general you, not you specifically) treat someone new like someone you're close with? It just doesn't make sense to me.

Idk where I'm going with this but yeah you're not the only one who feels that way.

(and please don't feel like you have to respond to this or anything, it's perfectly okay. I just wanted to say that it's not just you)

ofc it’s okay to share! my inbox is always open for anything :) & thank you, you’re v kind for this 🤍

it’s been an awkward thing for me as well, and yeah it doesn’t make much sense to me either. i know I’m not alone in this but it does feel that way sometimes! so thank you this :) you’re not alone either, anon.

I write for myself

*checks AO3 every few hours to see if I got any new kudos, comments or subscriptions*

the intimacy of having your efforts reciprocated in the same intensity and with the same tenderness