Skyscrapers of Ink, Streets of Written Words

We who make stories for a living know we tell lies, but they are good lies that say nice things-Neil Gaiman A blog dedicated to the beauty of words and the amazing things created by them.

[deathlonging]

we should talk more about cities that are vampires. cities that are cold and wet and sink into your bones and stay there. cities that are hungry and want to live. dead cities that dont know they're dead and suck the life force of their people to maintain the delusion. cities with harbors that are actually mouths; one-way entries. cities that are devastatingly lonely and see consumption as love

[future-crab]

[I'm Your Man - Mitski // Hound with a Joint of Meat and a Cat Looking on - Jan Baptist Weenix // House of Wolves - My Chemical Romance // The Boar Hunt - Frans Snyders]

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[ninasdrafts]

It’s not too late to get your life together.

[newarkwilder]

in honor of louise glück’s passing, here is a poem that i think about constantly and that has pulled me through some of the most difficult moments in my relationship with my parents

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from “Crossroads”, Poems 1962-2012

[purehelium]

Not Strong Enough by boygenius // And There Fell a Great Star From Heaven, Burning as it Were a Lamp by Odilon Redon

[bakwaaas]

julie buntin / jack gilbert / @ryebreadgf / @stuckinapril / harold pinter / jihyun yun

[bakwaaas]

one day I woke up and realised all the waiting and yearning was actually me living my life and it’s happening right now and it’s still good even if it’s not perfect and there is no moment when all your dreams get fulfilled and everything makes sense. like… this is it. this is life. you’ll waste away your youth waiting for some imagined future if you don’t love life for what it is now and make the most of it

[kitschens]

Comic by @shhhitsfine

[heavensghost]

[weltenwellen]

Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

[junedivinity]

everything ends

[fortuneobject]

Various Notes & Letters

Found/Collected Between July 2022-August 2023

(Texas, Seattle, and New York)

[soracities]

the “humans are inherently selfish” fanclub can genuinely and in all honesty go to hell. i once came back from a school yard where the kids had heaped piles of leaves and cut wildflowers on a narrow strip of grass bc a bee had died. i actually want to cry.

[cup-of-anxi-tea]

when i was a child, my parents told me our houseplant would die of lack of sunlight. i was so young i don’t even remember this, but apparently, my response to this was starting to carry the plant around like an emotional support stuffed animal. whenever my family went outside i would hold the pot on my head to make it reach the sun better. i wasn’t in school yet, didn’t have any exposure to the lessons on caring they give in elementary, i don’t remember my thought process - but i can guess. kids integrally care about things, even tiny bugs and inanimate plants. humans care.

[karadin]

don’t let them beat it out of you

[saint-batrick]

as someone in my 40s, may i also add: if they beat it out of you? put in the work to relearn it until it’s a part of you again. a part you’re proud enough of that if someone tells you it’s dumb and you should stop, you can laugh and say “oh, no. no, i don’t believe i will.” and then keep on keepin’ on.

compassion can often be a skill that needs to be relearned. so relearn it and revel in it.

[identifiedbutflying]

i imagine the butches’ stripper bar - jill mcdonough

[soracities]

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red [ID in ALT]

[soracities]

Jeremy Radin, from Dear Sai

[heavensickness]

Magnolias are so ancient plants that almost every other plant and insect who came to being around the same time as them has gone extinct by now. They are the loneliest plants in this world. Does anybody understand how much grief it gives me that the symbolic flower of Kuras is magnolia.

[blairwitchapologist]

may i please direct your attention to the poem dinosaurs smelled magnolias by dalton day!!!!!

[weltenwellen]

Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

[louisegluckpdf]

labs that are also churches. to me

(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)