saturn's muse

too weird to live, too rare to die

[macbethz]

i want what david cronenberg has

[scribeherself]

sorry I missed your text i was experiencing a profound existential paralysis but on the bright side look at this little mushroom I found.

[scribeherself]

sometimes I look at my friends and I am just overwhelmed by the sheer luck of it. the universe is so violently massive and terrifyingly empty, but somehow, against all odds, my brand of weird gravity pulled in your brand of weird gravity. we are just ghosts haunting the same corner of the internet, sharing a brain cell, and keeping each other tethered to the earth.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— endlessnamelesseternity (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[animentality]

[nixscriptum]

[stillhere-erehllits]

This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

[finnglas]

This is honestly one of the places I find Marie Kondo's advice most helpful. I stop, look at the thing I've spent time and money on only to realize I dislike, and I say, "Thank you for teaching me something about myself and my preferences. I think I've learned this particular lesson and we can part ways now."

And then I don't feel like I "wasted" things or made a mistake. I just tried one path of learning about myself, learned something, and now it's time for a different path. Works a lot better for my brain.

[fcirfolk]

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

[nixscriptum]

Every shadow was a place for my love to rest.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“And me? It was always you I loved, not your elegant strategy. I will love you still, if you now outgrow it. I will love you more whether time moves forward or backwards. Whether ice melts or water freezes back. Whether your next move is protection, break-through, shift, or any combination. There are at least three ways to love you: as you were, as you are, as you will be. I love you. That means I choose all three.”

— Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[mirethos]

[nixscriptum]

[frodothefair]

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

[nadielle]

— Ahmad Matar, unknown source (my translation).

[archivesoffanu]

Grief never arrived the way I thought it would. It wasn't the funeral. It wasn't the condolences. It wasn't the flowers.

It was standing in a grocery store, reaching for things that no longer needed to be bought.

Some losses don't break you all at once.

They return in ordinary places and finish what they started.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

the greatest responsibility of a friend is similar to that of a lover: not to save me, not to fix me but just to remind me who i am when i start forgetting. some days i lose my mind entirely and sometimes i need another pair of eyes to point at the light and tell me, “there. that’s still you.”

[nixscriptum]