Twinkle

[metamorphesque]

Tired, Langston Hughes

[petaltexturedskies]

The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.

Tennessee Williams

[metamorphesque]

Days of Heaven (1978), dir. Terrence Malick

[metamorphesque]

Main Path through the Garden at Giverny, also known as Une Allée du jardin de Monet, Giverny

[homunculus-argument]

Betrayed and backstabbed by your scheming evil advisor? Psch. Skill issue. Absolute amateur problem. Just hire two of them and reward them for snitching on each other. Just make sure that neither of them is gay or they'll just end up hate-fucking each other and fucking you over all the same.

[miss-hexatrix]

"hire two evil advisors but make sure neither of them is gay" are you hearing yourself right now. be serious

[metamorphesque]

van gogh green | monet violet | salman toor green | van gogh yellow

[luna-azzurra]

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

[metamorphesque]

Cross stones (khachqar) carved into the rock, Geghard Monastery

[metamorphesque]

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

[existential-celestial]

“I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else…and I will love you if you have a child, and I will love you if you have two children, or three children, or even more…and I will love you if you never marry at all, and never have children, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all, and I must say that on late, cold nights I prefer this scenario out of all the scenarios I have mentioned…I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.”

— The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket

[wovi]

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plath

[metamorphesque]

The Temptation in the Wilderness, Briton Riviere

[metamorphesque]

Untitled, Tathève Simonyan

[havingapoemwithyou]

not getting closer by Jack Gilbert

[metamorphesque]

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

you make one fucking post where the point is “women are encouraged to develop disordered eating from a very young age and that impacts how we view the ‘natural’ size and shape of women” and too many reblogs later i am being accused of saying short people wouldn’t exist if they ate better growing up. i’m sorry but if you genuinely think i was saying that you are just a buffoon. i cannot and will not sanction your buffoonery.

[terrorignitis]

Others may forget you, but not I. / I am haunted / by your beautiful ghost.

Empress Yamato Hime no Ōkimi (倭姫王)