The New Colossus

We got preachers and politicians-- 'round here it's kinda hard to tell which one is gonna do more talkin' with a crooked tongue. ☆ indie fandomless oc rp blog private | selective | multiverse read important before interacting

[lacunanostos]

lacuna - latin; a gap or missing part nostos - greek; return, the etymological root of nostalgia

defunct rp blog, now used as a place to hoard aesthetics and memes

[consequenceofaudience]

Madison County, North Carolina

[lacunanostos]

It's my 13 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[saturnisfallingdown]

man supernatural might be bad but also ill be damned if thats not the most american show ever. like theres movies and tv that've tried to be this american but 99% have failed. you watch a particularly good episode of supernatural and suddenly you feel the hours of highway winds against your skin and theres more asphalt road than livable terrain for miles and you eat the best meal of your life at a pit stop and you havent gone to church since you were a kid but you still think about praying sometimes and you split a 6 pack with someone you love and a few too many people around you have guns and the land around you is so big when youre right in the center of it you feel like it could swallow you up and you know for a fact theres an unimaginable amount of mythology just beneath the surface. and then you watch the next episode where sam kills paris hilton or something

[l0stvegas]

I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao

[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]

[randomslayerphoenix]

ITS NOT A PHOTO????????

[mintchipped]

they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

[choysum]

Anne Boyer

[vellumhallow]

buried so deep even god won’t find me

[transmutationisms]

ok yes the misplaced nostalgic yearning for a mythical past is clearly a reactionary position, but simply flipping the valences and replying that Everything Back Then Was Worse Actually is just as superficial an engagement with history

[transmutationisms]

the presumption of progress over time misleads with respect to the vast amount of variation in the historical record & it also serves to present whatever is the current arrangement as the apotheosis of human advancement... these are not value-neutral claims

[scarecrowisms]

drove 5 hours through indiana and ohio today and saw so many different types of power lines

[philly-peroxide-deactivated2026]

who up feeling like an open wound that will never heal

[half-a-corpse-half-a-poet]

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer

[boyracer-heaven]

[soracities]

My throat is sore. It has mountains lost in it.

Hasti, from "All of the Light That Reaches Earth" (After Rachel Jones & Radiolab), pub. The White Review

[cruelmiracles]

. . . she gave a single, long, full-throated howl, as if she wanted to rid herself at once of all the cries that pain had stored up in her.

Albert Camus ǁ The First Man (1960)

[soracities]

“Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now?”

— Galway Kinnell, from “Wait”

[sagewraith]

The way memory is the ringing after a gunshot. The way we try to remember the gunshot but can’t. The way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.

Victoria Chang, Obit

[fanficmemes]

I really do adore the kind of character who would rather make everything worse than even try to fix the problem. Yeah man, fuck communicating with your friends, blow the place to hell!!!

[three-of-keys]

*causing a minor inconvenience* It's too late, I've gone too far *causes much worse inconvenience*