Ktaylor Rose

I have no idea what I'm doing except that I do it every day? 21

[lifeinpoetry]

                            Here, though, tonight, creature in another creature’s bed, I am taking just a moment to be an animal alone in my own head. All while you, I know, are home, trying not to look for me, again, out a window grown so dark it just reflects.

Forgive me. I’d grown so used to being lonely.

— Jessica Jacobs, from “In a Thicket of Body-Bent Grass,” published in Split This Rock

[dangerly]

[nicolezaridze]

starting has been very difficult

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[buttonpoetry]

From Rachel Wiley’s book, NOTHING IS OKAY.

[orriculum]

in all seriousness, post break up who am i supposed to send memes to now

[the-radical-buzzard-of-discourse]

I used to cringe so hard at my “I’m not like other girls” phase until I realized that most girls have this phase and what we actually mean is, “I’m not a thoughtless one-dimensional caricature of makeup and boobs, which is all I’ve been taught to believe girls are.” How can women be viewed so poorly that little girls everywhere all think they’re unique just for having independent thoughts and interests?

[randomslasher]

oh shit

[aninactivebloggfgfgf]

how is it put so perfectly just into words like that, like, just

how

[pocketmilo]

new beginnings 

[kristalknobb]

Illustration for Cosmopolitan, June 1974 Detail

[karanlikduygular]

[dreamingwitches]

me: I’m so ready for growth

universe: oh?? growth you say??

me: yes!!! you heard?

universe: yea!! here’s some tough challenges that’ll force you to grow :)

me: wait no

[daily-showerthoughts]

Plants and trees are the Earths dominant species. In their eyes they feed humans with oxygen to keep us alive and then they feed off of our decaying bodies.

[ma-demoiselle-cherie]

[ma-demoiselle-cherie]

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

[beatchya]

Gia (1998)

[restfulraccoon]

My Queen x

[daily-showerthoughts]

Blaming an average person for polluting the Earth is like blaming a minimum wage worker for the crash of the stock market

[and-valium-said-to-me]

I think I’m in the mood to OD.

~in search of some fucking peace

[oldshows]

[natashatroyka-deactivated201902]

So there’s this famous phrase in Genesis, “לא טוב היות האדם לבדו" (“lo tov heyot ha'adam l'vado”), which means “it is not good for man to be alone.” I was thinking today that it might make a nice Jewish friendship bracelet or wedding ring inscription or something. Problem is, if you try to split it up it becomes

לא טוב היות האדם לבדו

“Existence is not good.” “Man is alone.”

All the other ways of splitting them up are similarly awful. And on the one hand, I think this is really kind of beautiful—how this phrase, which is about togetherness, is so beautiful as a whole but cannot be broken into parts without itself becoming splintered and distorted. The language mirrors the very nature of humanity that it describes.

But on the other hand it totally ruined my friendship bracelet idea so @G-d this is a callout post