near life experience

26 / they/them

[byjove]

crying used to feel good

[byjove]

I swear, there used to be a moment of catharsis afterwards. Now I finish crying and I feel like a useless greasy slob.

[primulaceas]

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

[havingapoemwithyou]

Against Empire by Jim Moore

[kafk-a]

[ps192]

please change beliefs, jenny holzer

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Olive Higgins Prouty written c. 1950, featured in The Collected Letters

[wovi]

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the ladies’ home journal, sept 1948

[seraphinesaintclair]

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Ghosts”

[ololygas]

Linda Gregg

[nomorechoirs]

“Citizen Of Dark Times” by Kim Stafford

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[weltenwellen]

Adrift Mark Nepo

[auntiefragile]

“Memory and Delusion” by Shirley Jackson

[partywithponies]

Women can write m/m. Men can write f/f. Asexuals can write filthy smut. Lesbians and gay men can write m/f. It's all arbitrary anyway. Who give a shit.

[partywithponies]

"Oh but they don't have an experience of-" I don't have any experience committing or solving murders either but that's still mostly what I read and write about.

[lohboh]

"pjackk" was an experiment to synthesize the world's first "ethical lolcow" conducted by a team of researchers at the massachusetts institute of technology

[catgirltoes]

What the hell happened to the energy around gender neutral bathrooms. Remember when we were fighting for all bathrooms to be gender neutral. But now we can barely argue that people can use the gendered bathroom of their choice. Maybe there's some single stall bathroom tucked away in a basement somewhere.