Handfuls of World

The year go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none had quite escaped my smile. ~ Elinor Wylie

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

[metamorphesque]

'things there are no words for, but should be', tatheve simonyan

[justryingtovibe69]

[apocryphics]

Walt Hunter

[wovi]

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simone weil

[wovi]

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ursula k. leguin

[omagpies]

things to say when you are not a place of honor

original text by @inkskinned can be found here. I’ve made a comic with it before but wanted to make a mbart version for a while

[goth-queen]

[lamignonette]

[piroshki4dinner]

I like you by sandol stoddard

[havingapoemwithyou]

Not This by Olena Kalytiak Davis

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from Your Heart is the Sea: Poems; "Detachment," originally published in 2018

[antoniabishop]

[cozyvu]

via cozyvu

[free-my-mindd]

[headspace-hotel]

Do yall ever think about what is your rarest achievement?

Like I was thinking about it today and if you thought of all possible human experiences as achievements you could receive in a video game, it would be clear that there are millions of possible achievements, with some distant reaches of the achievement trees so obscure that only one or two people have ever seen them.

For example, there is like, one guy who has gotten to the achievement See 10,000 species of bird.

I think eating every kind of fruit awards a unique achievement. I only reached Eat a pomegranate last year. And there are exploration-based achievements, like Visit New York City or [Hidden] Discover the abandoned barn with the huge Cathode Ray Tube TV and the deer skulls.

People's achievement trees would look really different. I haven't unlocked hardly anything on the Sports, Recreational Drugs, Physical Feats, or Travel achievement trees. I have a wide range of rare achievements on the Textile Arts achievement tree. I definitely have the most achievements on the Nature achievement tree.

Some of the achievements with the most EXP that I have are Witness a total solar eclipse and Forage and eat wild mushrooms (without getting poisoned). I think that [Hidden] Get shot at might also be up there

Recently I've unlocked Have a conversation in a second language with a native speaker and Warp a loom

But I still haven't unlocked Ride a skateboard or Do a cartwheel

My dad recently unlocked Become a cyborg (he got a surgery where he gets an implant that he controls with a remote). That has to have a pretty big EXP reward. But there are a lot of low-stakes achievements like Skip a rock across some water or Buy something from a vending machine

[vexheart]

This

[lena-oleanderson]

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

[mylordshesacactus]

Something to take a moment today and remember: As a collective, imperfect, often-divided human species? There is one disease--one--that we have ever managed to hunt to extinction. Because after thousands of years of watching it torture out children to death? Saving SOME people, saving MOST people, wasn't fucking good enough.

We have never hated anything more than we hated smallpox.

We have never loved anything as much as we love each other.

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day.