we are the muses

"I was just playing around with my imagination and everything got intense."

[weltenwellen]

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

[ahotknife]

oh emily wilson translation of the iliad we’re really in it now

[cervidaeze-archive-deactivated2]

and when the dust of your rage settles you’re left in the dark palms pressed into your eyes wondering why you weren’t good enough

i blame myself. -jg (via jess-iplier)

[tothechaos]

me trying to convince myself that the whole spectrum of human emotions is a good and necessary thing to feel even if its not comfortable while im actively experiencing emotions that make me feel like my bones are being dissolved in acid

[computationalcalculator]

[fxlthyangxl-deactivated20240122]

[rainynovaside]

due for some rainbows..

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong

[valtsv]

it's always "you gnawed off your own leg to escape like an animal caught in a trap" and never "why didn't anyone try to help you out of the trap" or "why weren't you provided with any other resources to escape the trap with except for your own teeth"

[trufflesmushroom]

[minouminouminou]

[karrakazz]

i am NOT gaslighting you. i am lying to you. gaslighting implies a level of effort that i am simply not putting in. deceiving you does not require much

[metamorphesque]

‘From a swamp, evil, viscous,’ Osip Mandelstam (translated by A. S. Kline)

[digitalintimacy-deactivated2018]

my mom might’ve raised an emotionally vacant child with severe depression and anxiety but she didn’t raise a quitter

[pomeranian2]

[ramblesamongstardust]

I understand the "I will die for you" ship dynamic, but what about the "I will not let you die, I will not let myself die- we will, at any cost, survive" kind of couple?

[romanceyourdemons]

so much love for characters who are desperately unsure whether they’re a good person, a redeemable person, a person worth saving, but are absolutely certain that they’re a grade a hottie

[kazliin]

[sweetsweetbumblebee]

im sorry i said "awooga" when u took off ur clothes do u still wanna fuck?

[metamorphesque]

I have so much love in me that I would like to cry.  

Simone de Beauvoir, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Sylvia Plath, Clarice Lispector

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