[sadclowncentral]

2023

1. COMMIT TO THE BIT

2. PARTAKE IN THE DIVINE ACT OF CREATION

3. LET THE SOFT ANIMAL THAT IS YOUR BODY LOVE WHAT IT LOVES

[metamorphesque]

nothing... just richard siken's unparalleled ability to paint the most perplexing emotions with the simplest of words

[beingharsh]

hi [<- haunted by "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story."]

[butterflypeaflowertea]

meeting people & growing apart from them & meeting new people & growing apart from them too & meeting other people & eventually growing apart from them as well & on and on and on

[despazito]

I think it's so important to have a "nature" calendar in your head, like a way of tracking time that's completely separate from anything work or obligation related, not holidays or anything stressful. For instance I look forward to august because at 8pm every night house finches hang around my window for a few weeks. In spring I love waiting for the magnolias to blossom. Just ways of tracking the time with zero stakes that's completely removed from life's zeitgeist and that you really look forward to

[peasunflower]

I'm in love with involuntary validation of a relationship. My best friend saying "our spot", my brother saying "our cookie recipe" or my mum saying "our song". Like YES I LOVE YOU TOO. I'm so soft for it.

[aaere]

the romance between a girl and herself is so significant not in a narcissistic way but in a i sometimes hate you but i will always give you the world way

[troutlawyer]

Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

[luthienne]

Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard; “P.S.”

[Text ID: I close my eyes and see / a seagull in the desert, / high, against the unbearably blue sky. // There is hope in the past. // I'm writing to you / all the time, I am writing // with both hands, day and night.]

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[fairycosmos]

i am pathologically homesick for the lives i could have lived

[oracle-fae]

[rosewater1997]

u know when u peel a mandarin to eat for urself and then someone u love is there and like without even asking u feed them every other piece from ur hand…..why is love so sweet and intimate 

[metamorphesque]

― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

[gatheringbones]

still reading elvira’s memoir and this is the most romantic shit I have ever read in my entire life

[gatheringbones]

we go from meeting her wife

to falling in love with her wife

to KISSING her WIFE

followed by a two page POEM about how much she loves her WIFE

[cairnmaiden]

i’m always surprised at how the new year comes so silently i always expect a sort of transformation, a point between the two years when you can see when the years change but they blend into each other one moment it’s the past year and the next it’s the new year. it sneaks up on you

[sen-s-ual]

✨ Little reminders ✨

Virginity is a social construct

Masturbation is healthy and normal

Sex isn‘t everything in life. It‘s okay to not want to have sex

It‘s nobodies business, if and with how many people you have sex

You can love multiple people and have several consensual/ethical relationships

Even though your mental health struggles might feel like a burden, You aren‘t a burden when you are seeking help

Boundaries are there to be respected

Your feelings are valid and not to be debated

Sexuality is a spectrum and you‘re allowed to discover your sexuality in your own tempo

You never owe sex to anyone

Always ask for consent