maybe i should have wanted less

silly little blog for my silly little feelings

[myrddins]

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themes (a-z):

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bruce springsteen

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came back wrong

on change

on childhood

on consuming

on desire

on dreams

on family

on girlhood

on grief

on home

it's about the hands

on kindness

on loneliness

on longing

on love

on memory

orpheus and eurydice

on rage

on remembering

on survival

on tragedy

on water

on wanting

on womanhood

on writing

[pmamtraveller]

"Burning Out" byHenry Daubrez

[dionysian-mystery]

Avery Williams, tails between clenched teeth (in le petit 3, january 2025) via @feytouched | Quote by briscoepark on Instagram | Song of the Open by Walt Whitman | You're on Your Own, Kid by Taylor Swift | Pencil drawing by Anthony Cudahy | Mamma Told Me by Mother Mother | Mother by Maia Baia | From the poem Salt by Trista Mateer (book: The Dogs I Have Kissed) | Unknown | Nevermind by Michael Howard | Muslim Girlhood by Leila Chatti | Quote source | Poetry by @ojibwa | Antigone by Sophocles | Art by @nevahosking | Sylvia Plath | Poetry by @traumatizeddfox | Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Art by Tim Dayhuff | Quote by Helaena Moon @hapless-hollow | Quote by Sainteda on Wattpad (?) | Spear by Elizabeth Acevedo | White Oleander by Janet Fitch | Illustration by Carlos Alonso from Under Someone Else's Rain by Juan Gelman | Quote by S.P. | Mya G. Wolf

[desescrita]

“But longing is momentum in disguise: It’s active, not passive; touched with the creative, the tender, and the divine. We long for something, or someone. We reach for it, move toward it. The word longing derives from the Old English langian, meaning ‘to grow long,’ and the German langen—to reach, to extend. The word yearning is linguistically associated with hunger and thirst, but also desire. In Hebrew, it comes from the same root as the word for passion. The place you suffer, in other words, is the same place you care profoundly—care enough to act.”

— Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

[seekingstars]

HOW’S THAT HOUSE THAT RAISED YOU? - Lev St. Valentine

[artisheaven]

Ocean waves made of maps by Matthew Cusick

[mournfulroses]

Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

[toomanyrats]

on shame and yearning (pt.1)

[asfdhgsdkjhgb]

something about lonely dogs, idk

gnaw at the heartbeat - wenyi xue / moon song - phoebe bridgers / let dead dogs lie - silas denver melvin / @strawberry-crocodile / nice pup - chloe moriondo / @ashstfu / @valtsv / @inkskinned / it will come back - hozier / @twoheadedfawnn / @/simplyrotten / clean slated state - the altogether / speeches for dr frankenstein - margaret atwood / faulty - leila chatti / belovéd - yves olade / against the kitchen floor - will wood / st bernard - lincoln / imposter syndrome - sidney gish

[lunamonchtuna]

— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance (July 17, 1949) (via lunamonchtuna)

[geryone]

Haruko/Love Poems, June Jordan

[geryone]

Someone Else's Hunger, Isabella DeSendi

[geryone]

Black Jam, Matthew Haigh

[geryone]

Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway

[generato-r]

[nixscriptum]

[weltenwellen]

Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World