fizzes like cherry cola

[firstfullmoon]

when susan sontag wrote “I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it”

[kusali]

"your teens are about" "your 20s are about" there's no schedule babes

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[headspace-hotel]

people get specific as they age

:O

[ashstfu]

having so much love in your heart is beautiful and amazing right up until you’re alone in your bedroom clutching at your chest and whimpering like a wounded dog

[ivecarvedawoodenheart]

like there comes a point where you think something is fundamentally wrong with you. and then it turns out it’s just Friday and you haven’t washed your hair in three days and maybe you’re also just a little lonely and the combination of all three of those things is whittling a hole into your chest every time you breathe. but also the sun’s up. and you’ve survived everything so far, so you’ll survive this too, even if it hurts, even if you have to survive it many times.

[rottingtrouble-child]

this is my inner child btw

[lucidloving]

@smuktvejr // Katie Maria, "In the Name of Love" // Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar // @lucidloving // @soracities // @randomestfandoms, "Love has always been more powerful than hate" // Frank Bidart, "Guilty of Dust"

[lucidloving]

Hayao Miyazaki // Rainer Maria Rilke, "Letters to a Young Poet" // @mounaks

[gustaving]

From Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish

[gothsbian]

i hope this is alright for me to add, but this poem references a line from one of hitler's speeches ordering the genocide of polish jews. at the end of the speech, he justified the genocide by saying "who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the armenians?" in a very literal way, genocides are interconnected and used to justify one another. the holocaust was partially modeled after the united states' genocide of indigenous people. british colonialism around the world had its roots in colonized ireland. this is why it is so important to remember the victims of all genocides across history, and why it is so important for oppressed peoples to stand together in solidarity.

[wordscanbeenough]

“In people’s lives I want to be that which does not hurt.”

— Marina Tsvetayeva, in a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke, 14 June 1926, from Letters: Summer 1926

[koenji]

Folio from a Manuscript of the Qur'an. Iran, Shiraz, 1550-1575. Ink, colors and gold on paper.

[felicitypdf]

[malacandrax]

I've been collecting pottery shards from the fields and woodland since I moved to the countryside a few years ago, I have so many now that I think I'll relocate them to containers, but it's nice to get a proper photo first.

[sandovers]

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in its flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung? The dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future, too. We persuade ourselves that the universe is modestly employed in unfolding our destination. We note the haphazard chaos of history by the day, by the hour, but there is something wrong with the picture. Where is the unity, the meaning, of nature's highest creation? Surely those millions of little streams of accident and wilfulness have their correction in the vast underground river which, without a doubt, is carrying us to the place where we're expected! But there is no such place, that's why it's called utopia. The death of a child has no more meaning than the death of armies, of nations. Was the child happy while he lived? That is a proper question, the only question. If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.

Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia

[fairyw1ngs]

[wovi]

when georges bataille wrote, “no greater desire exists than a wounded person’s need for another wound” & when gillian flynn wrote, “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” & when ocean vuong wrote, “sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined” & when lisa m. basile wrote, “did you inherit a sickness? did you blame god? do you believe in god? do you believe in yourself? are you still on fire? did you ever put out the fire?” & when stephen a. guirgis wrote, “why didn't you make me good enough so that you could’ve loved me?”

[wovi]

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ada limón, lucky wreck

[solarsainte-deactivated20220902]

my ultimate fantasy is having a brain that lets me enjoy being alive