[ur-daily-inspiration]

[catchymemes]

[depsidase]

[melanie-ohara]

Also a decade later she went on to invent apocalypse fiction with The Last Man, a much weirder sci-fi set in a 21st century dystopia devastated by a plague

[theorangepdf]

meeting someone who understands you so perfectly, who is so easy to be around is kind of a blessing and a curse because it awakens you to who you are what you need from others. and then you have to go the rest of your life looking for it and feeling it’s absence when you can’t be physically together anymore

[allsadnshit]

I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache

life just goes on no matter what

[arrows-for-pens]

[pyyrite]

[deviika]

Louise Glück // Kaui Hart Hemmings

[khayriya-deactivated20250830]

Good morning, you have to be the thing that saves you

[burningirl]

I ASKED GOD FOR A SAVIOUR AND HE SAID LOOK AT YOUR HANDS

[sandmandaddy69]

[glowcowboy]

me, wrapping my arms around myself: i know it’s scary. i know. just keep being brave for a little while longer. i’m here with you.

[iusedtobecharming-deactivated20]

Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!

[rehearsing]

happy too tired July everyone

[elikaruna]

“jesus died for you” well i didn’t ask him to do that and my therapist says i am not responsible for other peoples actions

[stuckinapril]

Focusing on what’s rooted in reality has reduced so much of my overthinking time. If a friend is already out of my life, there’s no point dissecting our interactions from back when we were friends. If I already broke up w someone, there’s no point thinking about the could-have-beens because they will never happen. If I’m into someone but it wouldn’t work for whatever reason, then it just doesn’t. Something just is or just isn’t. There’s a lesson to take from everything but I also don’t want to use that as a catch-all excuse of getting into the weeds for something when the weeds have already been cut off and it doesn’t even matter anymore

[stuckinapril]

“But what if I did x differently—” but you didn’t “but what if that one thing was different” but it isn’t “but what if y suddenly changes” if it hasn’t for long enough that it has become a problem, then it won’t. The worst we can do for ourselves. Like the actual single worst thing. Is to live in hypotheticals of situations we can never change. And I understand being attached to a concept but it doesn't matter. If something’s gone it just is. If something can’t work out it just can’t. That’s okay

[stuckinapril]

Tags like this make this website worth it

[endlessnamelesseternity]

— Greg Santora, “I mourn us as if we were dead”

[wordedarchive]

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

Anne Sexton via wordedarchive

[danger]

[ashstfu]

la collectionneuse (1967) / anne sexton

[pastperfectcontinuous]

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

[ritavonbees]

I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:

something needs to change here

this is urgent

I don’t know how to do it

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.