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hello there! grab a cup of tea and get cozy. I write about all things love, grief and real she/her | Ask away!

[hekate-writes]

"This reminded me of you" is such a tender sentence. Oh to have impacted someone so much that they find bits of your soul and hold the memory of you in things and places when you're not around.

[hekate-writes]

Hi everyone!

I've started a Substack!

Over the years, I've shared by heart with all of you here and I now want to share some longer essays that have long remained in my notes with you too! I hope you give me your love there too!

PS: My Substack is not monetized, I want to be able to share my thoughts with all of you freely!

Love,

K

[metamorphesque]

  — Hope is Lonely, Kim Seung Hee (tr. Brother Anthony)

[text ID: hope and I, / hope is a life sentence, / hope is lonely.]

[paper-wounds]

[the-wanderer]

Credit: @hekate-writes

[hekate-writes]

How weird is it that every person we ever fall in love with was once a stranger to us. As if all our choices and decisions led us up to them. As if we were meant to find home in the heart of someone who was once a complete stranger to us. Just the utter notion that love is written in fate and chance fascinates me.

[hekate-writes]

There's something about women. Some so deep and overwhelming.

How does your soft heart encompass so much love and rage at the same time, my little girl? How do you hold the world's weight on your shoulders and your life's hope in your heart, and still find the strength to fight the war you were never trained for?

Perhaps, this exactly is womanhood?

[hekate-writes]

The more I grow, the more I realise that the only true purpose we have on this planet is to love others and let others love us

[hekate-writes]

“ You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

– Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray

[anthropoetics]

readings: essays, articles & short stories pt. 2

the winter of civilisation

fruits we'll never taste, languages we'll never hear: the need for needless complexity

emily dickinson and the creative solitude of space

the lost art of looking at nature

the bowl, the ram and the folded map: navigating the complicated world

ada limón on preparing the body for a reopened world

before it was 'bittersweet', nostalgia was seen as a parasite

why alien languages could be far stranger than we imagine

the fig leaf, benjamin shane evans

cat pianos, sound-houses, and other imaginary musical instruments

of shark moves, shell shocks, and trash landings on the moon

as bright as a feather — ostriches, home dyeing, and the global plume trade

getting ahead, jonas karlsson

do these florida dolphins have a language?

the form of a demon and the heart of a person: kitagawa utamaro's prints of yamauba and kintarō (ca. 1800)

who needs ai text-generation when there's erasmus of rotterdam

when memories from fiction become part of who you are

how do transgender people remember their earlier selves?

[iamwizzzzz]

[nahalism]

a good breeze feels like forgiveness

[hekate-writes]

Losing people is so heartbreaking. How cruel is it that suddenly you have all these leftover memories and information of a person but not them.

You read a book you think they'll like but they're not in your life anymore for you to recommend it to them, you buy their favourite flowers but they aren't there to recieve them, it's their mom's birthday but you can't wish them, you're eating their favourite flavour of icecream but not with them.

It feels as though every moment that you once treasured is now forever incomplete.

[hekate-writes]

The more I grow, the more I realise that the only true purpose we have on this planet is to love others and let others love us

[hekate-writes]

Is it stupid to be so romantic in the currently collapsing world?

[edwordsmyth]

Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin

[hekate-writes]

My friend and I were having a conversation about a project she wanted to take up but was too afraid to and this is how it went:

"But what if it doesn't work out?"

" Well, there's growth in victory and there's growth in failure. I think at the end of the day you'll know more than you know now. And that's pretty amazing if you ask me"

And that's probably one of best pieces of advice I've ever given