Orange Cat Energy

[jeanmoreaux]

— Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

[heavensghost]

David Bottoms, from “Black Horses,” Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch.

[darkdoelette]

Bless Your Heart Anatomically Correct Large Heart Black Cherry Scented Bath Bomb

[swedit]

#i’m not okay

[untrustyou]

[love]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

[snow-blind]

the Coldplay discography as color palettes

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Nika Turbina, tr. by Elaine Feinstein, from First Draft: Poems; “Magician,”

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Lisa Marie Basile, from “Light Magic for Dark Times,” published c. 2018

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“I fight to console my heart,”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by P. A. Bien, from “Report To Greco,” publ. c. 1961

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“I sometimes resent my subconscious for its self-destructive tendencies.”

— Chelsea Hodson, from Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays; “A Simple Woman,”

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“Some people have needed me, but the ones I wanted most didn’t need anything or anyone.”

— Chelsea Hodson, from Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays; “A Simple Woman,”

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“…but being alive can feel so strange and bizarre and beautiful and intense.”

— Zola Jesus, interviewed by Anca Macavei for Nasty Magazine c. July 2019

[sexycliffconda]

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“The moon was shining. I thought, “I’ve finally come to the very depths of this miserable world!””

— Takuboku Ishikawa, from “Romaji Diary & Sad Toys,” published c. 1985

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“July. Silence. Complete silence. The whole world floated.”

— Lola Ridge, from To the Many; Collected Poems of Lola Ridge; “Silence,”

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“I needed to scream.”

— Margaret Atwood, from “The Handmaid’s Tale,” originally published c. 1985