Fix Your Hearts Or Die

1312 ig: wateringmyflowers

[la-novellista]

Art. Auguste Rodin, The eternal idol (detail)

[ominous-ellipses]

FOUND family??? you think i just found them like this??? babes this is FORGED family. Me & the bros were scrap metal in a junkyard (very valuable, very sharp, very dangerous, uncared for) and we GOT IN THE FUCKING FIRE TOGETHER. WE did this. we said I AM NOT LEAVING YOU and melted into each other for better or for worse (it’s for better) and we are A FUNCTIONAL UNIT now. DO NOT SEPARATE. BATTERIES FUCKING INCLUDED. FOUND family my ass, we built this non-nuclear family unit from the ground up, don’t devalue this!!! it was is and will be a labour of love!!!

[hotgirlmeg]

if y'all don't shut up about that woman and put on gasolina by daddy yankee.......

[soracities]

i do, often, think of that quote from wislawa szymborska talking about love and the inexplicability of some of it. "great love is never justified" etc. and it truly isn't. and thank god for that.

[soracities]

"We’re dealing here with the phenomenon of great love. Detached observers always ask in such cases: “So what does she (he) see in him (her)?” Such questions are best left in peace: great love is never justified. It’s like the little tree that springs up in some inexplicable fashion on the side of a cliff: where are its roots, what does it feed on, what miracle produces those green leaves? But it does exist and it really is green—clearly, then, it’s getting whatever it needs to survive."

— from "Great Love", in Nonrequired Reading

[miniangel]

swifties saying "im about to be so annoying" like dw u already are 😭😭

[road0flife]

[goddessactuality]

also how culture works

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

…but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[crucifiedlovers]

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

[engulfes]

2024

And if you missed a day, there was always the next, and if you missed a year, it didn’t matter, the hills weren’t going anywhere, the thyme and rosemary kept coming back, the sun kept rising, the bushes kept bearing fruit—

Louise Glück

[allsadnshit]

There is so much more life to live when you stop constantly obsessing over who will think you're a bad person or not understand you

I am learning this in the tiniest bites but it pierces me deeply

[p1xelpc]

reminder that addiction is morally neutral. 100% neutral. no exceptions.

[tamamita]

Let's gooooo

[tamamita]

So for anyone curious, a couple of Swedish-Palestinian brothers have launched a new brand of soft drinks in Sweden, serving as an alternative to Pepsi and Coke because of their complicity in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and their continuous support for the Settler Colonial stay. As you may have expected, these new drinks grew popular in a matter of days that they're already hitting store shelves everywhere. The brothers are also planning on expanding it to Denmark and Norway. The surplus of the money they earn goes directly to Palestine.

[tamamita]

Here's their official site

[pikopuri]

[kushblazer666]

fit goes hard

[killy-deactivated20241228]

this is from the Palestinian Obi and Dress Exhibition run by Maki Yamamoto, who runs the Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project (link is to an article about it). she works with women in the West Bank and Gaza as well as Japanese artisans to produce and sell embroidered obi (kimono sashes) to high-end Japanese markets, ensuring that the Palestinian women get paid fairly for their work. she's been to the West Bank numerous times, including many trips to high-tension areas like Al-Khalil and Bil'in. this photo, where the model is wearing a Hirbawi kufiya and a mother of pearl carving from Bethlehem in addition to the kimono, is sourced from Yamamoto's Twitter. by the way, mother of pearl carving is a longstanding handicraft tradition in Bethlehem that seems like it's less known compared to things like tatreez and olive wood carving. there are some really beautiful Palestinian mother of pearl pieces out there.

[safije]

Bukharan Jews from Uzbekistan on Sukkot, Palestine 1900.

[metamatar-deactivated20250401]

you know that arundhati roy quote that goes "can the hungry go on a hunger strike? non-violence is a piece of theatre. you need an audience. what can you do when you have no audience? people have the right to resist annihilation” but now i realise sometimes your audience are just people who will witness your annihilation and simply choose to say that unfortunately your blood greases the wheels of the world and simply register the fact that they have witnessed and condemned your annihilators as their duty while disavowing any attempt you make at resistance. palestinian journalists can broadcast till the end of their world and it would not move the needle on this kind of audience.

[happinessasthebaddest]