[finalwomanarchive]

i’m always thinking about i shoulda gone dancing

[alonelyhouse]

Smile. Tip well. Learn names. Give compliments. Pick up the piece of trash. Say thank you. Hold doors open. Pay people generously. Return shopping carts. Be on time. Plant a tree. Write a kind note. Let someone in your lane. Donate change. Be patient.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Novalis, tr. by Mabel Cotterell, from Selected Writings; “Hymns To The Night,”

[1five1two]

J. R. R. Tolkien, undisputedly a most fluent speaker of this language, was criticized in his day for indulging his juvenile whim of writing fantasy, which was then considered—as it still is in many quarters— an inferior form of literature and disdained as mere “escapism.” “Of course it is escapist,” he cried. “That is its glory! When a soldier is a prisoner of war it is his duty to escape—and take as many with him as he can.” He went on to explain, “The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as possible."

Stephen R. Lawhead

[barbarian15]

"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"

-J.R.R. Tolkien

"Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of "escape." I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, "What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?" and gave the obvious answer: jailers."

-C.S. Lewis

[playgroundl-0ve]

[alonelyhouse]

Luka my beloved

[alonelyhouse]

I would marry Hannibal but only cause I know he probably owns like a $10000 steam oven and I would risk being murdered and cannibalized everyday for regular access to nice appliances.

[thefoolandthesaint]

"I Wish I Could Keep You Safe", illustration by bubug

[northerlygale-deactivated202307]

@dylanadreams

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Slavoj Žižek for Abercrombie & Fitch’s 2003 “Back to School” Catalogue

[folklorebrunette]

WELCOME TO THE WANTING. IT IS HEAVY HERE. (cc: @jonismitchell)

caption: The Wanting, @jonismitchell // Água Viva, Clarice Inspector // Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen // x // Imitation of Life (1959) // South London Forever, Florence and the Machine // Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, Anne Carson // All Too Well, Taylor Swift // New York Movie, Edward Hopper // Reading too much into a Tongue bite by Me // I want you to Love Me, Fiona Apple // IWYTLM genius annotation // Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World // The Unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath // He Held Radical Light: the Art of Faith, the Faith of Art, Christian Wiman // x // Hunger, Florence and the Machine // Eye Level: Poems, Jenny Xie // Big God, Florence and the Machine // Ada Limón // Emily Dickinson correspondences with Sue // Sharks in the River, Ada Limón // x // Nobody, Mitski // I will name this tragedy after you by Me // Litany in which certain things are crossed out, Richard Siken //

caption: The Wanting, @jonismitchell // Água Viva, Clarice Inspector // Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen // x // Imitation of Life (1959) // South London Forever, Florence and the Machine // Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, Anne Carson // All Too Well, Taylor Swift // New York Movie, Edward Hopper // Reading too much into a Tongue bite by Me // I want you to Love Me, Fiona Apple // IWYTLM genius annotation // Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World // The Unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath // He Held Radical Light: the Art of Faith, the Faith of Art, Christian Wiman // x // Hunger, Florence and the Machine // Eye Level: Poems, Jenny Xie // Big God, Florence and the Machine // Ada Limón // Emily Dickinson correspondences with Sue // Sharks in the River, Ada Limón // x // Nobody, Mitski // I will name this tragedy after you by Me // Litany in which certain things are crossed out, Richard Siken //

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

your twenties are Not about saving money or networking. your twenties are about rinsing your heart in rice water. wearing big jackets. smelling night blooming jasmines. giving up on being sexy and embracing flaw and rot and thus inadvertently becoming sexy. planting cabbages and cauliflowers inside your internal landscape and making a garden in you instead of letting your internal landscape be a stormy sea tossing you around. cartwheeling in spirit if not person when you make a friend. and letting your eyebrows live a little.

[theworldismadeofwords]

“despite what you’ve read, your sadness is not beautiful. no one will see you in the bookstore, curled up with your bukowski, and want to save you. stop waiting for a salvation that will not come from the grey-eyed boy looking for an annotated copy of shakespeare, for an end to your sadness in keats. he coughed up his lungs at 25, and flowery words cannot conceal a life barely lived. your life is fragile, just beginning, teetering on the violent edge of the world. your sadness will bury you alive, and you are the only one who can shovel your way out with hardened hands and ragged fingernails, bleeding your despair into the unforgiving earth. darling, you see, no heroes are coming for you. grab your sword, and don your own armor.”

— Emily Palermo “Your Sadness is a Poison”

[2manypdfs]

The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

[thejoyfulbee]

best advice i’ve received recently is to stop being afraid of humiliation. allow yourself to be humiliated, to be humbled. and then you’ll grow 

[justanotherquoteblog]

Christianity does not agree with the optimistic thinkers who say, “We can fix things if we try hard enough.” Nor does it agree with the pessimists who see only a dystopian future. The message of Christianity is, instead, “Things really are this bad, and we can’t heal or save ourselves. Things really are this dark—nevertheless, there is hope.” The Christmas message is that “on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.” Notice that it doesn’t say from the world a light has sprung, but upon the world a light has dawned. It has come from outside. There is light outside of this world, and Jesus has brought that light to save us; indeed, he is the Light (John 8:12).

--Timothy Keller, Hidden Christmas: The Surprising Truth Behind the Birth of Christ

[learnelle]

MK Čiurlionis: a Lithuanian artist that did nothing but paint and compose music for 6 years straight. Most paintings rarely leave Lithuania because they’re incredibly fragile (he couldn’t afford the durability of oil paints or large canvas) so I feel blessed to have seen his mythological cities, anthropomorphic mountains and clouds in a glorious array of colours in person.

[wedarkacademia]