Broken Skies & Bitter Eyes

Bitter eyes are most often found in the heads of the lonely 35 years of learning to write

[quietacademia]

nothing is waiting for me and I am not waiting for anything.

[girlygirlangelbaby]

always.

[yourivygrows]

well well well if it isn’t august slipping away

[psychonaughtsomebody]

I am only as human as required. I am not required, however; to reveal what makes me more than human. It's always about what's not being said. Test it out. You may have some of me hiding in you, too

[letsbeapoemtogether]

"All the women in me, are tired"

Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

[what-even-is-thiss]

When I grow up I wanna be upper middle class.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I want like… a condo. And enough money to go on vacation sometimes. And maybe a mug.

[sbpstudios]

bro look at thrift stores or garage sale for mugs

i once got a set of four cat mugs for a dollar. one of the best days of my life so far

[what-even-is-thiss]

Maybe I’m tired of going to thrift stores for mugs. Maybe I’m tired of the $5 target mugs. Maybe I want a really nice mug. Not like five hundred nice mugs. Just like… one or two would be nice. You know? Maybe I’d hang one on my wall. I think I’d like that. Owning a wall.

[i-need-glitter]

@what-even-is-thiss

Go to any streets that close for art events, you’ll find at least 1 good potter selling their wares there

I got the cup I use for my bathroom at Las Olas, Florida for their art fair a few years back, it was like $15ish but the potter had a set all in the same color combo of a bowl, 2 sized plates and 2 different mugs. I just wanted the one small cup but I’ve got the card somewhere

At the same art fair a year or two later a different potter was there selling his stuff and that’s who I got one of my tea mugs from for like again $15isb

[what-even-is-thiss]

Again, people are misunderstanding my actual desires represented by the mug.

[what-even-is-thiss]

There you go.

[i-wear-the-cheese]

Every time we go into a Big Fancy Houseware shop just to browse, I stare wistful at the mugs. “We have enough mugs” I will say. But I know I my heart that all the mugs at home are mismatched and old, or secret Santa gifts from across the years. None of them have been purchased solely for the joy of buying a fancy new mug.

[parkasaurus-rex]

Like you could even go to the clearance aisle for mugs. The change of seasons always brings new and interesting things. OR A GOODWILL TRIP? Holy shit this person is going on and on about expensive ass mugs when what you really need in life is to not fall into the trap that capitalism has inevitably laid for all of us that makes us believe wholeheartedly that the only happiness we will find in life is the ability to purchase expensive things and to own expensive things

Go green and try to re-thrift for shit that’s so trivial it takes one slip of the hand to watch it completely fall to pieces

[what-even-is-thiss]

I made this post over a year ago now and inevitably whenever it gains more traction someone will pop up completely misunderstanding me, not understanding that I’d just like to be comfortable. I don’t actually want advice on how to acquire mugs. I own a couple of mugs. I’d just like to be able to have some security. Maybe a pool. Maybe I’d like to own a small amount of property. A condo, maybe. I’d like to be able to travel. You’ll notice that nobody here is giving advice on how to acquire a condo or a vacation. They’re just taking the mug part seriously. All I wanted to do was fantasize about a world where I don’t live in a studio apartment that takes up half of my paycheck in rent alone and maybe I have a stupid white dad device mounted on the wall to showcase my mug collection. Can everyone just shut the hell up about telling me how to acquire mugs? I don’t care about the traps of consumerism! I just wanna be able to afford to visit my aunts sometimes! And so what if I do want an expensive mug? That’s my goddamn business.

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

This is a perfect summary of what it’s like for try to communicate any idea that can’t fit neatly into a single sentence on Tumblr Dot Com.

[melonisopod]

Those “curtains were just blue” memes did irreparable damage to society.

[andreativej]

the terrible gift of being someone who can’t stop

Oh God, your harshest punishment was giving me this will. I was born at the bottom of this pit and have spent all of my life climbing out of it. Every bridge collapses beneath me eventually. There is still work to be done. More bruised fingers, more bloodied feet. More to climb if I am to ever see the sun, be kissed by the wind, be free. How easy it would be to be content. To be a coward. You could have given me mediocrity or the courage to surrender, but instead I was cursed with an insatiable will to live.

andrea tivej

[seeingthrume]

I love the way

your head rests on my shoulder,

the way you lean in close,

brushing kisses along my neck

like you never want the moment to end.-

[oncce-againn]

the art of pretending it doesn’t hurt

[ss-writess]

“If I touched you the way I truly wanted to, I think even your bones would remember me after death.”

[velvethell666]

You're the best sort, of the very best flowers — oh shit. I wanna be with you.

[mentally-ill-red-head]

I have feelings that I can never articulate very well and it can often be inconvenient, because I wish I knew how to tell you what I'm feeling. If you could just understand how I felt, what it feels like in my body, what my mind is going through, maybe then it would be easier for you to understand me.

[fudamnshi]

”time heals all wounds” WRONG. it merely allows for infection.. it is Too late for me

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[letsbeapoemtogether]

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

- Oscar Wilde

[ss-writess]

“I think if astronauts heard your voice long enough in deep space, they would stop calling Earth home.”

[disc90s]