gegenuber

[firstfullmoon]

Matthew Dickman, from “Grass Moon,” in Wonderland [ID in ALT]

[mossyshadows]

full poem on narrative mag here

[firstfullmoon]

Is it possible to stop loving everything? The owl. The hawk. Every person I meet. To see everyone as my mother. To have a heart like this is to be made of midnight. There are always too many questions to ask and not enough time. To love so much is to live within birds. I have been waiting for this heart to fade or at least to kneel.

— Victoria Chang, from “Marfa, Texas,” in The Trees Witness Everything

[podencos]

joan didion, on self respect

[allloversbetray]

IN MOURNING….

[hungryfictions]

Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook”

[yearningheart]

joan didion

[nobrashfestivity]

“we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”

RIP Joan Didion

[daweyt]

“““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.””

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— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

[animusrox]

LETTERBOXD 

Note: This will include a few releases from 2021 due to the pandemic/awards season 1.   Minari 2.   The Vast of Night 3.   First Cow 4.   I’m Thinking of Ending Things 5.   The Forty-Year-Old Version 6.   Palm Springs 7.   Sound of Metal 8.   Black Bear 9.   Nomadland 10.   One Night in Miami…

[Grade A]

11.   Bull 12.   Boys State 13.   Never Rarely Sometimes Always 14.   Tenet 15.   The White Tiger 16.   Let Him Go 17.   Mogul Mowgli 18.   Judas and the Black Messiah 19.   His House 20.   The King of Staten Island 21.   Wendy 22.   Mangrove 23.   Pieces of a Woman 24.   Possessor 25.   VFW 26.   The Short History of the Long Road 27.   The Mauritanian 28.   The Platform 29.   You Cannot Kill David Arquette 30.   The Lodge 31.   Swallow 32.   Soul 33.   Wolfwalkers 34.   Run 35.   The World to Come 36.   Time 37.   Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 38.   Bacurau 39.   The Assistant 40.   Big Time Adolescence 41.   I Care a Lot 42.   MLK/FBI 43.   The Other Lamb 44.   FP2: Beats of Rage 45.   The Father 46.   Saint Maud 47.   Mank 48.   The Trial of the Chicago 7 49.   Our Friend 50.   Sweetheart 51.   Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) 52.   Hamilton 53.   The Rental 54.   1BR 55.   Guns Akimbo 56.   Alone 57.   Proxima 58.   Host 59.   Ordinary Love 60.   Greenland

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I feel FATIGUED like send her to the seaside for her health type fatigue

[thewickedonee]

[photography-cnl]

Mysterious Monochromatic Photographs of Iceland by Jan Erik Waider

[live-between-the-pages]

“There is life after survival.”

— Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to VIce and Virtue 

[lord-des-fleurs]

Do not worry about your contradictions — Persephone is both floral maiden and queen of death. You, too, can be both. 

— Nichole McElhaney, “A sisterhood of thorns and vengeance”.

[marxisforbros]

Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin

[justineslupe-deactivated2022050]

LGBT+ Holiday films of 2020

A New York Christmas Wedding (Available now on Netflix) The Christmas House (Premieres November 22 8pm/7c on Hallmark Channel) Happiest Season (Available on Hulu, November 26) I Hate New Year’s (Available on VOD, December 4) The Christmas Setup (Premieres December 12 8pm/7c on Lifetime) Dashing in December (Available on Paramount Network, December 13)

[booklover]

“Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life. Everything’s happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That’s because you ain’t got to go through it no more.”

— James Baldwin, Just Above My Head (via quotespile)