Akhilesh

[kafk-a]

i am not brave but sometimes i am made brave by my friends which is to say i am made brave by love

[perfectquote]

“I think one of my favorite feelings is laughing with someone and realizing half way through how much you enjoy their existence.”

— Unknown

[weltenwellen]

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

[catchymemes]

[themaskismyface]

My show is being rebooted. We have better executives now.

[engulfes]

Literally what did olivia laing say about loneliness leading to more loneliness. Loneliness being so repulsive that people sense it from you and stay away. Crazy crazy

[engulfes]

[engulfes]

Furthermore:

[stuckinapril]

sometimes i think about how there has always been this dream version of me in my head who knows how to play the piano and can sing in key and charts stars by herself (and w her loved ones too) and reads so many books and studies diligently every day and is top of every academic pursuit and has all these skill-based creative outlets she nourishes constantly and does not have to compromise any of them for the other bc she knows how to budget her time and is not afraid of failure and does not let petty distractions like phone time get in her way. and i'm like oh. i want that really bad. like that truly eclipses everything else in my life

[strykerlancer-deactivated202405]

— David Foster Wallace , from “The Pale King.”

[everythingfox]

kis

[soracities]

Frank Bidart, “To the Dead”, Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965-2016

[Text ID: “The love I’ve known is the love of two people staring

not at each other, but in the same direction.”]

[soracities]

“One day I’ll become what I want One day I will become a thought that no sword or book can dispatch to the wasteland”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from ‘Mural’. Mural (trans. John Berger & Rema Hammami)

[soracities]

[metamorphesque]

“I am wonderfully free I love no one and nothing”

— halina poswiatowska, a splinter of my imagination

[soracities]

("I exist in two places: here and where you are")

Suzanne Buffam, "Vanishing Interior"

Sufjan Stevens, "The Only Thing"

Rene Ricard, "And Then I Tried"

[soracities]

W.S. Merwin, "Separation"

Etel Adnan, "Five Sense for One Death"

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

In the burned house i am eating breakfast. You understand: their is no house, no breakfast, yet here i am .....

[fairydrowning]

"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."

– Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964

[akhileshw]

[ritikajyala]

How do I tell you I love you without choking on the words?

Growing up, I never heard my family say 'I love you'. It was something people confessed in films and books and not what mother said to us or father told my mother. I love you was an exotic bird that existed somewhere in the world- too far away from us. I love you was a weakness that required immeasurable strength.

So, I pour my love in the morning coffee. And in the evening, I peel an orange for you, I love you. And I send you 15 cat pictures an hour, I love you and I hope you see it. And I text you good morning at the same time everyday, I love you, I love you, I love you. And until I learn to swallow it and live in it and whisper it, I hope you see how much I love you.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire