persephone

she/they • 21

[schuylerpeck]

I want time to be quiet. I want a week where there’s nothing expected of me. I want some light snowfall. I want a home I can rearrange the furniture with every season. To bring friends over to be warmed by the fireplace. I want to paint the walls. I want to curl into you until I feel my hurt fall asleep. I want to pluck rosemary from the windowsill. I want to feel comfort again. I want so much space in my heart for the light to fill.

[frogus-deactivated20231111]

the entire point of life is to be silly, kind, and really weird btw.

[funeral]

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

[yoursoethereal-deactivated20230]

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[bones-ivy-breath]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

[page-28]

It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.

[armthearmour]

A Spring-Loaded Triple-Bladed Parrying Dagger, Western Europe, late 16th century, housed at the Château d'Écouen.

[fanghusband-remade]

fuck this *closes the lid of my coffin*

[lifeguardtanlines]

Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived lightly in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done?

— James Longenbach, Barcarolle

[nmnv]

“zweisamkeit”

— (noun) An untranslatable German word, zweisamkeit is described as the togetherness and intimacy you experience with someone else.

[kathrynhoward]

the time travel agency seamstress (that one Tumblr post) |  Karolina Żebrowska

[void-tiger]

For those who haven’t watched the masterpiece for themselves:

[metamorphesque]

— Heaven, Mieko Kawakami

[text ID: I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.]

[kazs-inej]

FLEABAG: S02E01 SAM SAX: HYDROPHOBIA

[90sfilm-remade-deactivated20240]

mutuals reblog this with what you consider to be Your movie. what film is yours and nobody elses

[thanatos-girl]

Something u notice if u read enough marx is his insistence that many aspects of capitalism are not created in some cabal of evil billionaires, but has come about naturally as a result of the conditions of capitalism

[idiosyncraticwordsmith]

I have been beating those passages and excerpts and quotes over the head of so many people for so long.

The capitalist class does not literally have fucking annual meetings where they plan how to oppress the working class. They do not literally get together and scheme about how to exacerbate racial tensions to reduce worker unity. There is no grand conspiracy to ensure every retail and service job is lean staffed.

The bourgeois has certain class interests. Those interests require certain conditions be met. Those conditions can be met through only so many courses of action. The reason why every job is lean staffed is because lean staffing is a great way to reduce labor costs. That’s it. There’s no grand plan to make sure every worker is enslaved to their job and unable to schedule around it. That’s an unavoidable side-effect, an afterthought (if ever it’s a thought) to the bourgeois.

Sometimes the capitalist class does, in fact, get together and cooperate, in places like those big business conferences and at their ritzy get-togethers where they talk shop; and there are cooperative projects among their class, such as think-tanks and similar organizations meant to advance their interests.

But crucially, those are, again, outcroppings of a single simpler truth: in order for them to continue to be bourgeois, they must continue to own capital; in order to continue to own capital, they must continue to acquire profit. Everything else is in service to that, and every suffering the proles bear as a result is just fallout from that.

[feral-ballad]

Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems

[geryone]

Pink, Sylvie Baumgartel