still kickin

87 years young IL

[heartnosekid]

"touch grass" forest-themed artisan mechanical keyboard 🌿 by 10eegaming on ig

[ritikajyala]

Mama I don't want kids, I say. For the hundredth time. Mother has this look on her face, it sits still- something between disappointment and bewilderment. But who will take care of you, she says, when you're older? And that is a rotten feeling. To believe that a child is only as good as what it does for its parents. To believe you are only as good as you give. To believe you owe someone, only to feel love. Who deserves this? Who deserves this wretched snarling beast sitting in my chest, whispering, shrieking- give, give, give.

-Ritika Jyala, The Beast that makes me Give

[metamorphesque]

🌼 musings on august 🌼

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[ex0skeletal-undead]

Edge of Darkness by Ben J

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[theteenquotes]

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[lillyli-74]

Life And Death by BeaGifted

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-Credit To Chiara Bautista

[metamorphesque]

— call me by your name (andré aciman) / franz kafka

[already-free]

This movie hit younger me a little too close to home 😭

[mydearbasil]

The pirate captain and the shark lady 💕

[ex0skeletal-undead]

On the Edge by Aleks Stoller

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[ritikajyala]

There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

Edit- I added the visualizer for this piece on my YT, check it out here

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

[fairydrowning]

– Ariel Dimitri, Instagram account "dimoetry"

[TEXT ID: I cook rice the way my mother taught me when I was ten years old. I peel my apples before I eat them because that's how my father did it. I watch movies differently now because a friend I haven't seen in four years once told me that every scene could have an implied message, and I enjoy hearing some of 'the father's jokes' just because he used to tell me the whole way home. There are songs I can't listen to anymore because they remind me of the people I used to love. We are somehow a little part of everyone we have met in our life, and even if they leave, there are some pieces of them that are still inside us; as a home, a lesson, or maybe a story worth telling- it's kind of our choice now. END ID]

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