* SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM.

01. 02. 03. 04.

* JULY 18, 1968 - MOTHER CALLED, TOLD ME TO COME HOME & NOT TO LISTEN TO THE SPECIALIST. DIDN’T REPLY, SHE HUNG UP. VERY DEPRESSED. VERY STONED. THINGS ARE GETTING BAD AGAIN.

#PULITZERLOST

INDEPENDENT AND SELECTIVE ORIGINAL CHARACTER. WRITTEN BY EMMA.

inspired by the life & work of joan didion.

^{_{i’d like to talk more about just how deeply, deeply, joan was affected by the violence & paranoia of the sixties.}}

9.8.17 / 10she was really a witness to the era and being so personally connected to everything feeling so connected to everything was not healthy for her throughout the decade she just became increasingly detached and unstable there are just so many images she has constantly in her brain jackie kennedy covered in blood the body count of the vietnam war being recited every night on television brian jones dead in his swimming pool the protests of 1968 everybody was yelling everybody was angry the manson murders those...really impacted her for weeks and months all she could think about was pregnant women bleeding and mangled and dying she was supposed to be a counterculture icon which is perhaps why this was so upsetting for her it felt like the whole world was falling to pieces and everybody was celebrating but her this is more than i wanted to write holy shit but a thread where she actually manages to tell someone about this would be f ucking fantastic * CHARACTER STUDY / ON THE MORNING AFTER THE SIXTIES. * WISHLIST / CHILDREN WITH PRESENTIMENTS OF LOSS. * OOC / GOODBYE TO ALL THAT. tw: violence tw: drowning tw: pregnancy

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