we are weeds

she says, taking root in the broken places >on route to somewhere, beaten back sometimes but never defeated. >marina, 22, likes nature and climbing things

[mournfulroses]

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, translated by Babette Deutsch, from “You Appeared,”

[paper-wounds]

[metamorphesque]

i'm all the people i've ever loved

loseness lines over time by olivia de recat, @i-wrotethisforme, Kaveh Akbar, Olivie Blake

[nevver]

Glimmerati, Claudia Keep

[havingapoemwithyou]

acceptance speech after setting the world record in goosebumps by Andrea Gibson

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

—Andrea Gibson, "Good Light," Lord of the Butterflies

[amilkyway]

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— josé olivarez // natalie diaz

[rotgospels]

“In memorizing the poems I loved, I “ate” them in a way. I breathed as the poet breathed to recite the words: someone else’s suffering and passion enters your body to transform you, partly by joining you to others in a saving circle.”

— Mary Karr, ‘Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer’

[random-brushstrokes]

Arthur Spear - Sunrise (1921)

[ruhlare]

okay but saying “i wish i had known you sooner” — like the love in my heart is growing so big and fast for you that i wish i had the opportunity to have you way earlier by my side, because i want to love you longer than i can do now. my love for you reaches my past and makes a place for you.

[ruhlare]

[ladybugpdf-deactivated20250512]

i swear it is physically impossible for me to read a mary oliver quote without immediately having to hold back tears. "you do not have to be good" and "someone i loved once gave me a box of darkness. it took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift" and "i don't want to end up having simply visited this world" and "to love what is mortal against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go" and "it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world" and oh fuck it's happening again

[kaijuno]

You would kill a man for this bedroom

[gallusrostromegalus]

@that-awkward-fae-nerd

[calware]

funny phrases to use when something goes wrong instead of jokingly saying "i'm going to kms":

i'm going to kill god

i'm going to delete my blog

i'm going to explode

i'm going to blow up this entire website

i'm going to become the joker

this is going to be my villain origin story

i'm being so brave about it

fuck it we ball

god had to nerf me because i was too powerful

i'm too pretty for this

all according to plan

feel free to add on

[stuckinapril]

lol i hate today’s era of absolutely zero nuance takes. a friend didn’t behave exactly as you’d wanted them to? cut them off. a guy didn’t text you back instantly bc he has his own life? he’s just giving you breadcrumbs. doing something makes you uncomfortable? don’t do it anymore. someone isn’t instantly available for you? disinterest. just absolutist statements that often don’t apply to the multilayer situations of everyday life. like. stop. literally just stop it

[exitwound]

love is something like this

[wedarkacademia]

“Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”

― Elana Dykewomon, Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities