Joy and Sunshine

bookish queer mess | they/them | relationship anarchist | fictional worlds and sad poetry help me cope with my depression

[themarinecathedral]

uranus & neptune

[mournfulroses]

Catherynne M. Valente, from her novel titled "Six-Gun Snow White," originally published in 2013

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a play titled "Misunderstanding," featured in Caligula & Three Other Plays

[lovecrumbss]

oh to have foxes play where I've laid to rest

[mournfulroses]

Marcel Proust, from a poem featured in The Collected Poems; A Dual Language Edition

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Incest: A Jounal of Love; The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

[mournfulroses]

Emily Brontë, from a poem titled "The Prisoner," featured in The Selected Poems of Emily Brontë

[mournfulroses]

Catherynne M. Valente, from her novel titled "The Melancholy of a Mechagirl," originally published in 2023

[joy-and-sunshine]

"Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out?”

― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

[mournfulroses]

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

[thelilylav]

Thesis of the entire story in two pages

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Incest: A Jounal of Love; The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

[mimidiann]

[fearfulotter]

strong women go brrrr

[lunaamplified]

[dailyhoshina]

⚔️ Day 14 | This panel of him reminds me of the meme XD