be gentle

don't let your happiness depend on someone else

[5555ilenthill]

[honigimohr]

“Ich habe Angst, dass die Liebe, wie ich sie mir vorstelle, nicht existiert.”

— Rory Freedman

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[ellievhardy]

[guerrillatech]

[pisshandkerchief-deactivated202]

Holy shit that's so cool

[knightofleo]

[beckiboos]

Finally “do you love the colour of the sky” got compressed for our convenience

[kandykittixd]

This is now my favorite photo

[migatito]

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[derelicthousefootage]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[yamuluyorsanicmiycen-deactivate]

[haelxtii]

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You

[vonnegutism]

[queen-tuesday]

[abduction]

[dappledwithshadow]

Infinity Rooms Yayoi Kusama

[serratedpens]

Eden Robinson, “Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted”

[frenchsiren]

[Text description:

You can put your strength down. I’m sitting here with you at your kitchen table. You don’t need to say anything.

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[versace-caine]

[weltenwellen]

A Conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm