Reading Books With Side Tangents

Indigo - he/they - 22 - 🇺🇸🇫🇷 - I post about history, classic lit, and cute stuff

[rachatakaewboy]

(Photography by Brendon Burton)

[inky-sun]

[thombalan]

[theceaselesshunger]

Call me pedantic, but my response to any and all "radical kindness is punk" type posts is still that you should just call yourself a hippie. Like that was the actual radical kindness movement. I'm not even saying that to be derogatory, I think the hippies were cool! I'm Californian, I owe a lot to those guys!

It's just weird to me that there's such a strong desire to ape the aesthetics of what's seen as a "cool" subculture that people are constantly try to revise the core of it when one there's a much more closely aligned one right there. Hell at this point I think I'd argue hippie fashion is a lot more repulsive to the modern conservative than punk stylings

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

ursula k le guin was right

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

all of it, more or less

[night-the-starfish]

Hunter and prey, markers on paper.

[themoorishwitch]

[virusfrog]

The librarian on duty

[catasters]

[kocalls]

[geopsych]

Dandelion time along the park stream, April.

Next month! It won’t be long now.

[geopsych]

Sit under the tree for a moment and watch the water

[geopsych]

A little of a summer solstice morning with indigo bunting and chipping sparrows singing

[nancyyyysposts]

[starrmarr-deactivated20260106]

[loveridden1999]

adult grief by louise glück

[oaluz]

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native was stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. But we can practice being gentle with each other by being gentle with that piece of ourselves that is hardest to hold, by giving more to the brave bruised girlchild within each of us, by expecting a little less from her gargantuan efforts to excel. We can love her in the light as well as in the darkness, quiet her frenzy towards perfection and encourage her attentions towards fulfillment... As we arm ourselves with ourselves and each other, we can stand toe to toe inside that rigorous loving and begin to speak the impossible—or what has always seemed like the impossible—to one another. The first step towards genuine change. Eventually, if we speak the truth to each other, it will become unavoidable to ourselves.

Audre Lorde, "Eye to Eye," Sister Outsider

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