Tricky

It's the wood that should fear your hand, not the other way around.

[lamignonette]

[primulaceas]

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[help-me-yes]

[princehoseok]

[simena]

Albert Dubout - A Cat

[maybuds]

from Loneliness: coping with the gap where friends used to be by Olivia Laing for The Guardian

[Text ID: Last night, I ate dinner with my friend Jenny. In real life, on a warm London evening, forking up aubergine from the same plate. We laughed, shared family news, told each other the things we’d been worrying over. At home, alone in my study, they’d felt insurmountable, a sign that something was irredeemably wrong with me. Under the gentle scrutiny of my friend, they diminished to a normal size: just the grit of everyday traffic with other humans. I walked home feeling buoyant, nearly invincible. I need my friends. I bet you need yours.]

[stuckinapril]

Truest thing ever unfortunately

[gatheringbones]

I love your agreeable and amenable and flexible nature and how none of your wants and needs ever get priority and how nobody even knows what they are to begin with and how you never start or engage in conflicts and never express even mildly unsavory opinions and get along with everyone from every conceivable group, that’s so trustworthy. hey quick question. do you happen to have an enormous pressurized reservoir of rage and resentment you feel like you can’t ever analyze or express because that would break the rules for the kind of person you are and if so, do you think a lifetime of squashing it down might ever backfire?

[kosmogrl]

[billy-crudup]

What you do… What you do, Nicky, when you love someone is you believe the person that you love. That’s what trust is. So when you told me that you believed me, I believed you. Instead of looking at a catalog of all the things you’ve said in the past because I am fucking seeing you in the moment, in every moment. I am looking at you, and you just… you don’t fucking do that for me. You don’t. You just… You chose a version of me a long time ago, and that’s all I am, and… then you get… you get frustrated when I’m not it because then you don’t know who to be, and you know what? It’s bad, Nicky. It’s a bad fucking quality because you have made it impossible, impossible for me to exist! SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN (2026) Created by Haley Z. Boston

[aliasalias]

when i grow up i wanna be a dandelion

[dancefloors]

happy anniversary

[sagasolejma]

[daylightsavingcrime]

[Video description: a short clip of a colourful dog plushie sitting in front of a white background, then falling over, then sitting up again, then wiggling. The lyrics "i get knocked down", "but i get up again", and "you're never gonna keep me down" are written around it, with circular arrows between them so you can read them as an endless loop. End ID]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

when clarice lispector said “one day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. that kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. but you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. there are things you only learn when no one teaches them. and that’s how it is with life. there’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering. sensitive people are both unhappier and happier than others. but give it some time”

[coyotette]

[konoko]

[laumabina]

[softhe4rted]

self-compassion: an antidote to shame mb