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What I remember best I can't put into words. I felt all hollowed out. I have good days and bad days but the empty feeling stays. My mother said, "it's because you're such a beauty. These boys can't help themselves." She was trying to be kind.

[weltenwellen]

On Seatbelts and Sunsets Hanif Abdurraqib

[lunamonchtuna]

cruel how loving someone rewires you permanently.

[lunamonchtuna]

— Ivan Yan (source)

[hyperions-fate]

The evil in Minnesota is entirely American. It needs no propagandistic comparison to 'oriental' regimes abroad or whoever happens to be the 'barbaric' enemy of the day. ICE's inhumanity and cowardice is that of a state born out of slave plantations and the indian-hater's rifle.

[feral-ballad]

Zeina Hashem Beck, from O; “Flamingos”

[metamorphesque]

"I Loved You", Alexander Pushkin (translated by Antony Wood)

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

[weltenwellen]

Kerry Egan, On Living

[mournfulroses]

Andrei Tarkovsky, from a diary entry featured in Time Within Time; Selected Diaries

[havingapoemwithyou]

Haiku [for you] by Sonia Sanchez

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Burn Baby Burn - U.S. Embassy in Tehran, 1979

[jwleet]

[ghofran-20]

[heartpdf]

me pretending my enormous feelings arent crushing me to death and carrying out routine tasks that are good for my health and longevity

[indouscurse]

i need pepple to understand that in the first place leather has always been made from the byproducts of butchering animals for meat, otherwise the skin is just tossed and unused. there were some companies farming for leather for a while, particuarly alligator leather, but those were not the norm. peta did so much harm in their campaigns against leather as a concept (its not unethical. yoi get the skin when an animal dies. thats why most leather clothes in the usa are cow leather, bc thats the biggest meat animal here) that its almost impossible to buy anything "leather" that isnt made of plastic that it so fragile and shitty that the very Thread Holding It Together rips the fibers apart. it will last for maybe a year two if youre lucky, and wont biodegrade and was made out of something that isnt naturally occurring in the first place and is one of the biggest causes of pollution globally

[indouscurse]

i do not care if you personally think nobody should slaughter or eat animals, it is Going to happen anyway. you cannot be so obtuse thst you think making more plastic that causes pollution endless damage to the animals you claim to care about so much is better than omnivorous human beings eating other animals and using their bodies completely.

[julaibib]

“Peace be upon you for what you patiently endured. And excellent is the final home.”

[Surah Ar-Ra’d, verse 24]

[mournfulroses]

Dylan Thomas, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas

[bumblingest-bee]

”which could mean nothing” is maybe my favorite phrase of all time. where would we be without it