calm words

“The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.” – Jim Morrison

[theoceanislikeyou]

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[fluentisonus]

going to be honest though the type of blood oaths where you swear by pressing your bleeding cuts together to mingle the blood have so much erotic potential to me. what if we fit our open wounds together. what if the insides of us touched & our essences mixed. this too could be sex

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

Actual roman epitaph for a dog

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

humans are the same

[mornington-the-crescent]

[weltenwellen]

Alex Dimitrov, from "Tuesday"

[karamazovdmitri]

—Anna Akhmatova, The Last Toast, tr. by D. M. Thomas

[firstfullmoon]

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

— The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (via universitylibraries)

[flowerytale]

Sharon Olds, from "Something Is Happening", One Secret Thing: Poems

[elirluna]

Remember My Name, Mitski

[dianasruby]

I do not want to study any more I wish to lay on the cold marble floor of a cathedral and pray the rosary while Mozart’s Requiem is being played

[lanaturnerhascollapsed]

Photoplay, June 1933

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[inloveforevr-deactivated2025041]

Self improvement is great but ultimately? you have to accept your self. Yes you can eat better, exercise more, read more, set boundaries, love your self, but it all comes down to this. Some days you won’t have the energy to do any of these things. And you’ll look in the mirror and think that this is not enough. That’s a lie. The biggest love for self is to live slowly. To rest. To really rest. Have a nap. Eat what makes you feel good. Read if you want to. Embrace yourself and accept that you cannot and will not be ever be perfect. Accept that you are good enough. You don’t need to keep busy all the time. you don’t need to go out all the time and post on instagram. You don’t need to journal if you don’t want to. You don’t need to make art if you don’t want to. Breathe, give yourself grace and compassion. Give yourself the love and tenderness you so badly need. Be gentle with yourself. You are trying and it is good enough. You are good enough.

[inloveforevr-deactivated2025041]

A beautiful poem that illustrates my point

[promqueendyke]

throwing up so hard right now

[promqueendyke]

[chamerionwrites]

What she says: I’m fine

What she means: It’s truly amazing to me how many people’s hot take on Macbeth is that Lady M is the true villain of the piece for badgering her husband into committing murder when in reality the far more nuanced and interesting reading is that their character arcs form mirror images (ruthless > remorseful vs. reluctant > remorseless), and to be honest I’m pretty sure it has everything to do with our subconscious belief that villainous women are in some fundamental way worse than villainous men because in addition to doing bad things they violate our expectations about femininity (come you spirits unsex me here and fill me from the crown to toe topfull of direst cruelty) as soft and nurturing and non-violent and it is!! absolutely incredible!!! that this many people manage to read a play thematically concerned with the horrific results of conceptualizing violence as a defining trait of masculinity and come away doing the adam-and-eve thing (it’s the woman’s fault she told me to eat the fruit!) where Macbeth is the once-noble man tragically fallen and Lady Macbeth is his one-dimensionally evil nagging wife!!!!!!

[pleasanttumb]

[callmeonmyrazr]

lindsay lohan taking photos of the paparazzi with a disposable camera, 2004 📸

[friendlymathematician]

“The first feminist gesture is to say: “OK, they're looking at me. But I'm looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but how I see them.” ― Agnès Varda

[gravity-rainbow-deactivated2024]

"What if over tea, what if on our walks, what if in the long yawn of the fog..." —Claudia Rankine

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude