language and ruin

i don't make much and most of me dies in winter 27, they/them

[loverslaundry-deactivated202201]

- on june blossoming in june by karen an-hwei lee

[plumstreet]

you can't waste your life btw it's just not something that's possible to do. your mere existence is already a precious and valuable use of your time. the time you spent becoming who you are now was inherently worthwhile

[metamorphesque]

[julykings]

i’m not sure i’m capable of being loved right now / i feel safe in my quiet way of living and telling my secrets to thread & paper / i don’t know what i’d say if you asked me to know myself / more

[julykings]

from Tiny Beautiful Things, adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos. 

[poetic--elixir]

Art is to console those who are broken by life. —Vincent Van Gogh

[feral-ballad]

Safia Elhillo, from Home Is Not a Country; “Boys”

[fruitffish-deactivated20250218]

Detail from The Fallen Angel (2007) by Arantzazu Martinez

[dreamsofacommonlanguage]

Being queer saved my life. Often we see queerness as deprivation. But when I look at my life, I saw that queerness demanded an alternative innovation from me. I had to make alternative routes; it made me curious; it made me ask, "Is this enough for me?"

— Ocean Vuong

[deanwinchesterapologist]

the problem is that going to bed at night feels like a chore whereas lying down for a forbidden nap at 4pm feels like the pinnacle of decadence

[metamorphesque]

  ― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

[text ID: To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.]

[araekniarchive]

Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West (c. October 1928)

Phoebe Bridgers, Moon Song

Franz Kafka (misattributed)

Leo Brynielsson, The Moon Has Fallen

Mitski, Happy

Richard Siken, Anyway

Richard Monckton Milnes, Lady Moon

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hymn to the Moon

It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra

Rumi, Some Kiss We Want

George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Margaret Atwood, Owl and Pussycat, Some Years Later

[shinji--moon-deactivated2017123]

[soracities]

on touch, trust, and fear

Anne Carson, “Dirt and Desire - Essay on the Phenomenology of Female Pollution in Antiquity”  |  In the Mood for Love, dir. Wong Kar-wai  |  May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude  |  Louise Glück, “Epithalamium”  |  photographer unknown (via @birsiyahhikayesi  ) |  Mary Ruefle, “The Cart”

[treasureful-tiles]

[fatpotatosaysmoo]

I bet sometimes you could find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand

[whenwebothfell]

besties I think there’s a lot going on at the moment