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i don’t think about the past, it’s always there anyway

[goopy-amethyst-deactivated20250]

Finding a vandalized Wikipedia article while doing homework feels like winning the lottery with the ticket you found on the street

[goopy-amethyst-deactivated20250]

"Mandarin is Valeria's favorite fruit, if I could I would give her a hundred mandarins to prove my love for her, I love her so much fr, I wanna raise a hamster with her"

[butchniqabi]

i looked at queeringthemap today and had a good cry but these especially touched me

[g1asseyes]

[archbudzar]

twitter / instagram

[solassitudes]

loving someone is so interesting because there are moments I get to see who I am without all of my trauma. Like I remember feeling like I wasn’t the affectionate type until I met my first love, and suddenly I had words for daysss. simply overflowing with affection and words for her. I didn’t realize I was capable of that. And then, with a different love, I learned how much I loved to touch. How much I wanted to hold and to cuddle and to feel. how natural it felt. I didn’t know I would love to be touched so much. I feel like love after trauma is relearning yourself. love after trauma is seeing who you are when you’re offered a safe space. safe love is simply Being whoever you’re meant to be.

[acehotel]

1993 guerrilla marquee by Jenny Holzer who fought the good fight on 42nd street ‘fore they tore it down. 

[cruciform-solidarity]

“Love is not rational. This certainly does not mean that love is irrational. If love is genuinely to seek the good of the one loved, then reason has to come into play to present love with the various possibilities of good. But once this has been done, love goes beyond reason and makes its choice by an act of faith.”

— John Austin Baker, The Foolishness of God

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

maybe one day you’ll relate to the poems about being in love and being loved back. and not the ones about longing for it like it’s something distant & unattainable for you.

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

i dont claim to be an expert on love but i think theres something to like… ok so my girlfriend got undertale on the switch a while back, right? and she’s definitely not a bad videogamer but it takes practice yknow, esp when youre doing a neutral route and actually fight stuff. so when she got to the hardest bosses i took the controller and beat them for her. not because she couldn’t, but because i love her. and that’s what my brother did when i was a kid playing sonic adventure 2 or whatever, not because i was dumb but because he was good at it and he loved me. and when i want my girlfriend to read something (a post, an essay, a novel) but she’s too tired to actually read so it i read it to her and i do silly voices and she laughs and we have more fun that way. when you hand a water bottle to your friend and they open it without you even having to ask. when you spent a million years fixing the flat tire on your bike and then your dad just takes the tools and does it for you. its not a judgement, it’s just a service. you could do it yourself, but why should you have to when you are loved?

[m3ws-moved-deactivated20240715]

love really just is *sharing blankets* *driving together in silence* *this song made me think of you* *i made them for you* *having the most fun just talking* *cold hands warm hearts* *i got home safe* *you said you needed one so i found one for you*

[tordenvejr]

love hides in questions, you cannot ask a thing without giving yourself away. how was your day? (i hope it was good) when can i see you again? (i pray it's soon) do you feel safe with me? (i feel safe with you) what is your favorite color? (i wish to enrobe you in all that makes you smile)

[butterflypeaflowertea]

[thinks about love] okay well i am just losing my mind and being insane now .

[freckled-lili]

“You know, love doesn’t mean ‘I never want you to change’. But I don’t think it means ‘I don’t care if you change’ either. So I suppose it might mean, ‘I believe that you’ll always be the person I adore’. A declaration of faith, perhaps.”

— Sayaka Saeki, やがて君になる (Bloom into You).

[sawasawako-archived]

the pragmatic view of love honestly makes me so emotional

[sawasawako-archived]

like what do you MEAN it’s up to us to create and nurture the relationships we want to have with people? what do you MEAN loving others and caring for others and being kind to them is a choice that we have to make every single day, in each moment? what do you MEAN we are the makers and sculptors and artists and architects of our own interpersonal relationships? i’m losing my mind!!

[sawasawako-archived]

it really demystifies the whole affair. once you realise that love and thriving relationships don’t just drop from the sky or appear out of thin air, once you realise that it isn’t miraculous or due to “fate” or design, that it’s really just the choices that we make and the beliefs and values that we hold, everything becomes clear. you don’t just sit around and wait for things to change, or passively wish them to be different, clinging onto the idea that since it’s mystical, you’re not entirely responsible for shaping it. but you are. and that’s scary, but it’s also, like, the only thing that really matters at the end of the day?? i cannot

[sawasawako-archived]

thinking about sue zhao saying love is sacrifice

[sawasawako-archived]

"I do think that love is very often about sacrifice. I mean sacrifice as in choosing, as in effort. I mean choosing as in the allocation of time, and energy, and the making of space and the setting aside of prejudices and the keeping of an open mind. I mean leaving the last half-slice of cake in the fridge; working late into Thursday evening to spend Friday evening together; picking them up at the train station even though they've long memorised the route to your flat. Even when it is a sacrifice happily made, a choice readily chosen, it is still the giving up of one life in favour of another. And I think it's important to recognise that. I could be living a different life but I am choosing to live a life with you. It is a sacrifice. The stakes are that high. And I do it anyway. I do it because it's you. I do it because I love you."

[luthienne]

Nikki Giovanni, from “Mirrors”

[Text ID: … but It Cannot Be A Mistake to have cared … It Cannot Be An Error to have tried … It Cannot Be Incorrect to have loved]

[erucres]

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Yui Makino - Arabesque No.1

Composed by Claude Debussy

From the album “All About Lily Chou-Chou OST ‘Arabesque’”

[gaycommunist]

i love you, tenderly

thomas merton // “eurydice” sarah ruhl // ernest hemingway // anis mojgani “in the pockets of small gods” // lemony snicket // franz kafka “the castle” // @fridayiminlovemp3 (mitski “strawberry blonde”) // mitski “pink in the night” // khalil gibran // gustave flaubert from a letter to george sand, 1876 // danez smith “acknowledgments” // “love freely” E.C. @desultory-suggestions