But first they must catch you

Kazik, teen, queer, rather furious

[bandagedthoughtsblog]

[duvets4graves]

You cannot destroy children who were raised without phones

*scuttles up oak tree while dragging PC and keyboard behind me*

[duvets4graves]

Damn my eyes hurt I've been staring into the luminous rectangle a tad bit too much

[duvets4graves]

I mean, a hug would be nice but I suppose I'll take literature instead.

[goth-queen]

[duvets4graves]

THERE CAN BE A BETTER WORLD AND I MUST LIVE TO SEE IT

(fuck you, mental state, and you, authoritarian state)

[duvets4graves]

Today you cannot recognize yourself. Scars run up and down your body and you don't know how they got there. Every morning you wake up and check your arms to make sure they don't look concerning. You do not recognize these arms.

I meant for this to be a hopeful post. I always want to have hope, but instead I just have arms that needed to be scanned daily for signs of my problems.

But I think the fact that I want to have hope is reason enough to have hope at all.

So I will keep waking up, scars and all.

[luna-azzurra]

A non-writer asked me "but where do you get your ideas" and i genuinely did not know how to explain that it's not a place. it's not a website. it's not a folder. it's that i was on the bus and a woman was holding a paper bag very carefully and something about the way she held it made me need to know what was inside and then i needed to know why she was sad about it and then there was a whole person and then there was a whole story and the bus had already stopped and i missed my stop. that's where.

[duvets4graves]

"No one will ever see your posts"

But I have made them and that is enough for me. I know I am alive, and should someone come looking for me, I have reason for them to find more than bone.

[s0phslibrary]

I think you can absolutely still have hope while acknowledging we are in multiple forms of collapse. You can be hopeful you’ll get a job. You can be hopeful solutions will arise. You can be hopeful you’ll make friends. You can be hopeful that there are people who care for the world amidst the world being beat and bruised.

You’re allowed to care even though lots of things are going bad. Some things can’t be fixed or saved. But it’s okay to hold onto hope for something good to happen tomorrow. Good things are always going to pop up like flowers in war zones.

“The world is not on fire, there are just lots of fires.” Don’t lose hope that some fires can be put out. So much is still easy. Build a safe zone within the flames, and persist putting them out. Accepting we are in a bad place does not equal rolling over to let it get worse. No matter how bad things will get, you can still put out flames in different spaces.

You can give yourself the freedom of acknowledging life right now is in a state of unrest and we don’t know when the chapter will close, while also being happy we are here with other people and things that make it worth it. Because it is worth it. All hard things are worth it.

Allow yourself gentle mercies that will keep you alive.

[hibi-flower]

sources: unknown // unknown // maplepecanpastry on tumblr // ashmanathletics on tiktok // i saw the tv glow (2024) // pray for me by kendrick lamar // unknown // what are you waiting for? by derald cannon jr. // unknown // unknown // drunk drivers/killer whales by car seat headrest // polekingrasputin on instagram

on waiting / on saving yourself

[duvets4graves]

Reposting only is so sad to me.

So is only reading, and only watching movies, and just listening to music.

Like yes media is so beautiful and that's why we appreciate it but that's also the same reason we need to CREATE it, because otherwise our little souls will wither and die and we will never have brought anything into the world.

And I can't be okay with that for some reason. Idk much, but I know the one time in my life I have wanted to wake up is when I was painting a mural.

Art makes us want to live. It's a cycle, I think, living to create and creating to live. There are worse cycles.

[duvets4graves]

Everyone I know is tired. We've been tired for ages. But I used to sleep on your couch and at least then we could be tired together. Do you remember showing up to the competition after 2 hours of sleep? We lost so badly. But then we fell asleep on that bus home, the three of us, and it didn't matter. Even though it always mattered. You made things not matter and I loved that about you.

Is your couch still free?

[merryweathart]

Kids, always remember to hate on generative ai, fascism and the patriarchy ✨️ (frame ref)

[duvets4graves]

I took off my pendant of a Saint.

I went to Pride.

I came home and was violently ill.

And here I thought I had accepted myself.

[duvets4graves]

"Yea I'll take a break"

Turns out taking breaks allows you to figure out you're broken, and then you spend all day writing songs...which wasn't a break but was nice. If only I could sing.

[duvets4graves]

Just thought "mate we all miss Vegas"...

I have never been more west than Texas