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So embarrassing but who cares. But so embarrassing but who cares but it’s so embarrassing but also who cares but it really is embarrassing but really who cares BUT it’s so embarrassing though probably nobody cares but it’s embarrassing asf and nobody cares but

bloodyhart

jenny holzer - living (1980-1982)

allsadnshit

"Growing Around Grief"

Lois Tonkin, 1996

jbonesimms

“It ends or it doesn’t. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tunnel, the night, the pain, the love. It ends or it doesn’t. If the sun never comes up, you find a way to live without it. If they don’t come back, you sleep in the middle of the bed, learn how to make enough coffee for yourself alone. Adapt. Adjust. It ends or it doesn’t. It ends or it doesn’t. We do not perish.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, It Ends or it Doesn’t

how2forgive

Ahhhh i needed to hear this

sanstoitniloi

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

machi40h

remake！　original→https://x.com/Machi40h/status/1750561514774483402?s=20

sassy-cass-16

look i know the hunger games fandom is entrenched in songbirds and snakes brainrot right now but i just wanna mention how horribly genius the tesserae system is

like. it's designed to keep the poorest districts from ever winning the games, by keeping the population of those districts on the verge of starvation without ever tipping the line too far. the poorer you are, the more you need your children to take tesserae. the more tesserae your children take, the more times their name is added to the reaping pool. the more times a name appears in the reaping pool, the more likely they are to be drawn over a person who doesn't need to take tesserae. a kid who's been surviving off of tesserae grain and oil is exponentially more likely to die early on in the games due to the effects of malnutrition (low muscle mass and body fat, not to mention the mental consequences).

pretty much the only reason katniss was physically capable of surviving the games was because she'd been able to catch meat in the forest. surviving on just the tesserae she was taking for her mother and prim, there's no way she would've had the physical strength to make it out alive.

say what you want about the realism of the hunger games but the tesserae system is horrifyingly well-designed to do exactly what it's supposed to do.

Edit: guys I wrote a fic that's meant to dissect all these horribly genius systems involved in the functioning of Panem, check it out

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catchymemes

my crush ended up telling me nicest thing someone has ever said to me in MY ENTIRE LIFE??? I’m flabbergasted I’m still in awe. I’ve been thinking about this the entire week bc MAN. Man oh man.

#personal #words #rose.txt #he basically called me angelic and a genuinely kind person #he also said that my voice and my presence make people feel at peace #and the one that got to me the most was him saying that #when he thinks of Jesus’s voice and what he’d sound like #he thinks of me #LIKE #????!!!! HELP #like if I didn’t think u were cute before #and we’re both religious so it involved references to the Bible and faith #i DEFINITELY would’ve fell for him in that moment #AAAAAAAaaaaAAAAA

toomanyrats

on shame and yearning (pt.4)

toomanyrats

on shame and yearning (pt.1)

ttintricacies

When Anaïs Nin said “I have belonged to you in a way you haven’t to me” and when Byron said “although I am not beloved, still let me love” and when Mary Shelley said “although I may not be yours, I can never be another’s” and when Alexandre Dumas-Fils said “no matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me”

ink--scratch

it's an art, you know. loving someone you can't have? it's an art. it's a way to convince yourself that, even if you can't confess to them, you're capable of caring enough to want to wake up in the morning. it's a testament to all of the pain you've been through. tells you that the map you've followed all your life, with all of its twists and turns and roadblocks, has lead you right where you need to be: here, alive, loving. loving. loving. and yeah, maybe you can say it to them, those three words. you can't really mean it, though, and that's what hurts, right? you can tell them, "i love you. i hope you're happy and healthy. you deserve it." you can tell them, "you're my favorite person. i love you so much." you can tell them, "you're the best friend i've ever had. i love you." no matter what, you can shower them with love. pray they understand. and if they don't? the heart beating in your chest is a consolation, isn't it?

forlornalbatross

It’s cliché but true that the commonality of literature to say those who want you in their life , love you; will make it known to you. It would be effortless , it would be mutual & equal in every inch of each end. Even the tragedy itself will be written-off because it is endured together. But if this isn’t what’s currently contextualised then what is the use of repeating the notion of wanting to be in their life or love them when they don’t or won’t in return? -

D C de Oliveira from Hēsychazō | March 19 2022 | Saturday 9.40am