fiercely independent, me.

hello. I am at university in Scotland, and this tumblr is for things I like.

[fred-wilson]

[daringescapes]

haha my husband's visa progress

[daringescapes]

If you decide to go - and we won't hinder you - we'll make arrangements for your journey. You need take nothing: those you're going to will feed and care for you as if you were their own. You ask us: what will it be like? But how can we describe a place so unlike this - except perhaps by saying that it's the opposite and that, unhappy here, you have imagined it. But first, before you go, we want to make quite clear that once you're there we cannot interfere. Remember too that you are part of us and just as we shall never cease to feel the pain of losing you so you, though you will leave behind all memory of us, may yearn uncomprehendingly for something you have lost.

"Pre-natal", Vicki Feaver.

[explodingdog]

The closer you get, the harder it is to see.

Explodingdog at The Daily Dot

[daringescapes]

[newspaperblackout]

“When I married you,” a newspaper blackout by Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like An Artist

[bloodysigils-deactivated2013020]

[daringescapes]

HI I'M GETTING MARRIED TOMORROW.

[the-thirteen]

[daringescapes]

Han I love you 4-ever even if I'm getting married in three days. 

[fuckyeahbostonterriers]

[daringescapes]

see also: my soul.

[nevver]

Life

[daringescapes]

About ten days or so After we saw you dead You came back in a dream. I’m all right now you said. And it was you, although You were fleshed out again: You hugged us all round then, And gave your welcoming beam. How like you to be kind, Seeking to reassure. And, yes, how like my mind To make itself secure.

"The Reassurance", Thom Gunn.

[daringescapes]

At thirty man suspects himself a Fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his Plan; At fifty chides his infamous Delay, Pushes his prudent Purpose to Resolve; In all the magnanimity of Thought; Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.

From "Night the First", Night Thoughts, Edward Young.

[combbefferre]

[bridgetrhee-blog]

[such-heights]

Connoisseur-us Rex

[daringescapes]

[daringescapes]

Her daughter was always off and away in her mind, grappling with some unspoken, self-imposed problem, as though the weary, self-evident world could be re-invented by a child.

Atonement, Ian McEwan.

[myjetpack]

A book of my cartoons will be out in late April.

[daringescapes]

you’ve got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made up scenarios in your head that you’re stressing about for absolutely no logical reason