𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯

reya / xxi.

[darkcomedies]

my understanding and interpretation of Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” cannot be untangled from the fact that it was originally published to follow her poem about childhood sexual abuse, “Rage”

[darkcomedies]

i just don’t think it was unintentional that these were presented flush against each other

[danielkahndyke]

ever since i was a little girl i always wanted to be unemployed

[artesie]

John William Waterhouse. 1896. Hylas and the Nymphs details.

[127leilas]

i just dont think we were made to look at ourselves

[malaak]

Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet //  Milan Kundera - Immortality

[die-rosastrasse]

Marie Félix Hippolyte-Lucas

French, 1854-1925

Salome, 1890 (detail)

[forestgreenlesbian]

[feral-ballad]

I’ll kiss you in the pomegranate garden.

From I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, tr. by Eliza Griswold

[la-dama-de-rosas]

JUDAS KISS: an act of betrayal, especially one disguised as a gesture of friendship

the betrayal of christ by judas, caravaggio / the hunger games, suzanne collins / squid game (2021), dir. huang dong-hyuk / miss missing you, fall out boy / the social network (2010), dir. david fincher / julius caesar, shakespeare / the death of julius caesar, vincenzo camuccini

[ritikajyala]

There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

Edit- I added the visualizer for this piece on my YT, check it out here

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

[su-n-s-e-t]

[su-n-s-e-t]

[su-n-s-e-t]

[ancientsstudies]

Owned by the Nature. x

[su-n-s-e-t]

[ancientsstudies]

Could willingly waste my time in it.

[girlfromenglishclass]

Childhood made everything feel like it lingered. The time it took for hot chocolate to cool down was eternal. Christmas day took weeks. The two-hour drive to my grandparents' house took us to a new world. It's all too fast now.

[saintsebastiensbf]

ur early 20s are about being obsessed with kindness and mary oliver and seasonal fruits and recreating comfort foods you ate as a child and learning how to love and crying because you have no choice but to live the life before you and finding god on the bus back from the grocery store