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anika. 25. she/her. poet.

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a diary entry featured in Diaries of a Young Poet

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

hamlet’s “i did love you once” and ophelia’s “indeed, my lord, you did make me believe so” is such an underrated gut punch. it’s betrayal it’s heartbreak it’s vulnerability it’s so over. truly no one is doing it like shakespeare

[thequietedge]

📍Istanbul, October 2025

📷 Fujifilm X-T5 / XC15-45mm

[angels-all-sin]

“ask me about” button PNGs credit not necessary but appreciated!

[andrumedus]

“I would never tie you down, not even with garlands of roses. I don’t want anything from you that doesn’t come from your own impulse, like water from the springs.”

— Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XLVI”

[pussyhoundspock]

joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

[nonevahed]

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literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom what’s this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on there’s a word for that ☝️🤓 and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasn’t Urgent)

[zarohk]

And this is a perfect illustration of why it is important for kids to read or variety of things, and why abusers don’t want them to.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Endre Penovác aka Эндре Пеновац (Serbian, b. 1956, Tornjoš, Serbia and Montenegro) - Stretching, 2017, Paintings: Ink on Paper

[girlbloke]

there’s gonna be some hot summer nights this mid july so i reckon you and i have got to get forever wild

[edw-lugh]

Daily affirmations:

No one will find the picture in your attic.

It's not your fault the person made of cadavers you sew together and you revived killed your family.

It's perfectly normal to enter your house climbing like a lizard.

The fact that you killed a man doesn't make you guilty, it was just your silly alter ego.

That raven who won't stop saying "nevermore" is an asshole, don't listen to it.

Your fiancé is definitely NOT hiding his mad spouse in his attic.

The big ass dog that killed members of your family isn't real, dw.

You deserve revenge for having been abused as a child, go back to moors and show them!

Go and kidnap that singer!

[rattling-bag-of-bones]

Yeah so the first album is a bunch of in-world novels, like a story inside a story, which was bonkers for a first album— hmm? Oh, yeah, that’s Johnnie. He died and came back to life— don’t worry about it. Anyway, the first album deals with themes of— oh, that’s Cobb Avery, he also died and came back to life, and he killed a bunch of people— don’t worry about that either. But yeah the first album paints a deeply romantic image of the wilderness to— who? Oh that’s Frankie Lou, she’s also dead and— well, she’s implied to be somehow communicating to Tubbs from the beyond. How’d she— well the short answer is drugs— don’t worry about it. We haven’t even gotten to the jukebox yet. Anyway the first album

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

[joewierenga]

Cheshire Cat by Joe Wierenga

[alaricmacdonald]

budapest. mar, 24.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You've been turned into a mythical creature, spin the wheel to see which one!

Are you happy with it?

^^^^^^

https://wheelofnames.com/5k9-xsu

Are you happy with it?

yes!! I love it

yes!

It's okay I guess

no

NO.

results/other

Voting ended onJul 14

(if you don't consider some of these mythical creatures please don't come for me)

[nick-nonya]

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[library-seraph]

The first attested cat in Japan was given to a young 9th century emperor and his diary about it includes such gems as 'I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.", "The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink.", "When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk." and "I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.” Basically posting about how his void is the best little void and so good at getting really round

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

[llovinghome]