Once upon a tidal wave

🌬𝙼𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒-𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖🐚 𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙿|𝙿𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚎𝚜

[old-school-romantics]

-Katy Darby

[old-school-romantics]

[lunamonchtuna]

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert” from Dark and Perfect (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 1995) (via lunamonchtuna)

[enchantresssiren]

🎀

[paracosmoon]

[malojasnake]

— The Next Time, by Mark Strand

[enchantresssiren]

[psikonauti]

Monika Marchewka (Polish, b. 1988)

Sweet Potion (series)

Oil on canvas

[feral-ballad]

Jennifer Huang, from Return Flight; “Procedure”

[Text ID: “I am not accustomed to / this gentle; / I crush it.”]

[strawb3rryangelw]

[daily-spooky]

[laurapetrie]

She seemed to have stepped from the pages of an old romantic novel. Her great ambition was to emulate no one but the Lady of the Camellias, the fair heroine of Dumas fils.

Gyula Krúdy, The Crimson Coach (1913)

[rahabq]

[daily-spooky]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

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[thoughtkick]

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

— Stephen R. Covey