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[ovur]

[rainboows]

​ok but major kudos to the person in the video for the facial expressions cause this is exactly how imagine these ingenue type main lead girls in these type of novels.

[fortyflightower]

hate the booktok tables at barnes and noble with a burning passion but it is sometimes funny to see a little life sitting right next to the love hypothesis like they have anything in common at all.

[thelifeandtimesofacrazyblond]

[thelifeandtimesofacrazyblond]

[bananonbinary]

okay i know “like zorro” is a Lot but is no one going to mentioned his penis “rattled” against her teeth like it’s full of ball bearings

[erinmar13]

WHO PUBLISHED THIS MAN TO BEGIN WITH?

[quasi-normalcy]

Publication is apparently entirely about Who You Know

[foxmagpie]

all my students in my dystopian film class think gale is a better match for katniss than peeta and i told them they were Objectively Wrong and they assigned me a slideshow for homework to prove it and—

look. these children are about to be destroyed.

[foxmagpie]

my speech was 17 minutes long and when i finished the boy who challenged me to make the slideshow pursed his lips and said "okay fine, you're right, but i'm docking you points for being biased when you called gale a brat baby"

[wawa-evg]

Clary 💫

[perfectfeelings]

[oatmilksgf]

someone needs to check up on the author of diary of a wimpy kid bc what if his publishing company is holding him hostage

[oatmilksgf]

911 i have a question

[sketchdeath]

sorry to add to a post but this is my favorite reply

[squidwithelbows]

I think a lot about the early days of Adam and Gansey’s friendship… There are so many ways this exchange could go, please send me more captions.

[legacysam]

I understand why it didn’t make it into the adaptation, but I need you all to know that in North & South nearly the first thing Thornton does after meeting Margaret is use his influence to force her landlord to change the wallpaper in her house bc he overheard her saying she didn’t like it

[dearestloveliestdarcy]

[katriniac]

Did I watch this several times?

Yes.

Did I giggle every time?

Also yes.

[the2headedcalf-archive]

You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless

oh.......................................

[urlocalchangeling]

Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds - Ada Limón

[facinaoris]

Alina Starkov was our age when she was martyred. She was just a girl, and she sacrificed herself to save Ravka and destroy the Shadow Fold. There are people in your country who worship her as a Saint too.

[exy101]

@storyseekers​ event 13: florals

lonesome means a state of being apart. of being other. alone-some. adam was not always alone, but he was always lonesome.

[irtenyev]

when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

[treethymes]

when toni morrison said “i just think goodness is more interesting. evil is constant. you can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. but you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that’s complicated.”

[azbukivedii]

when simone weil said “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

[macrolit]

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”

—

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[april-is]

April 19,  2021: Heartbeats, Melvin Dixon

Heartbeats Melvin Dixon

Work out. Ten laps. Chin ups. Look good.

Steam room. Dress warm. Call home. Fresh air.

Eat right. Rest well. Sweetheart. Safe sex.

Sore throat. Long flu. Hard nodes. Beware.

Test blood. Count cells. Reds thin. Whites low.

Dress warm. Eat well. Short breath. Fatigue.

Night sweats. Dry cough. Loose stools. Weight loss.

Get mad. Fight back. Call home. Rest well.

Don’t cry. Take charge. No sex. Eat right.

Call home. Talk slow. Chin up. No air.

Arms wide. Nodes hard. Cough dry. Hold on.

Mouth wide. Drink this. Breathe in. Breathe out.

No air. Breathe in. Breathe in. No air.

Black out. White rooms. Head hot. Feet cold.

No work. Eat right. CAT scan. Chin up.

Breathe in. Breathe out. No air. No air.

Thin blood. Sore lungs. Mouth dry. Mind gone.

Six months? Three weeks? Can’t eat. No air.

Today? Tonight? It waits. For me.

Sweet heart. Don’t stop. Breathe in. Breathe out.

==

The poet, Melvin Dixon, died in 1992 of complications from AIDS.

Today in:

2020: Sunday Night, Raymond Carver 2019: Virginia Street, Jennifer Hayashida 2018: What Seems Like Joy, Kaveh Akbar 2017: Aunties, Kevin Young 2016: For the Union Dead, Robert Lowell 2015: The Cambridge Afternoon Was Gray, Alicia Ostriker 2014: Spirit of the Bat, Peggy Shumaker 2013: Thanks, W. S. Merwin 2012: Sweetness, Stephen Dunn 2011: I Remember, Anne Sexton 2010: Letter, Franz Wright 2009: 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven, Kenneth Patchen 2008: HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITY NO. 26, J.R. Quackenbush 2007: from Briggflatts, Basil Bunting 2006: The Chores, Frannie Lindsay 2005: Direct Address, Joan Larkin

[artscapade]

“I can best this.”

Please do not repost my art anywhere. Both versions are now available for purchase on my INPRNT shop!


I Can Help You | I Can Best This