in medias res

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. | XVIII

[karlvsn-deactivated20240312-dea]

[y3llowfinches]

Sorry for being obsessed with love. As if it's my fault

[tenorgender]

bitches hate me for my earnest whimsy and my pathological degree of avoidant behavior

[quotefeeling]

“The name of a person you love is more than language”

— Tennessee Williams, from Selected Stories; “The Vine,” c. July 1944

[robert-hadley]

Textile by namaysamay

[nosferatuprivilege]

my favorite block on the aids quilt

[intersexfairy]

[ID: A bluish black quilt block. It has a yellow 4-pointed star in the center. Filing the black space are many white birds - doves, possibly. They look like they’re flying towards the star.

In the top left and bottom right corners, it reads “forever remember me as loving you.” The text is white and in caps. /End ID]

[bakwaaas]

there is no unlived life or alternative reality where everything went right…. there is only here and now what are you going to do with it

[weepingwidar]

Sung Hwa Kim (Korean, 1985) - Untitled (2022)

[julykings]

dragonfly drawing on a little leaf 

[eatpussypraylove]

Escape screen time, rearrange furniture, open all the windows even if it’s cold, drop the baggage, drop the stuff piled up in the closet, drop the clothes I haven’t worn since 2019, go outside every day, breathe fresh air, stay out until it gets dark, feel the sun on my face

[sweatermuppet]

love passes thru me at all times like an electric current

[2001hz]

[thebonedogs]

embroidering on the felt hmm 

[angelnumber27]

Not just hot but interesting and kind and loving and loyal

[filthyprotozoan]

one thing about orpheus and eurydice is you guys are all like “i’m different i wouldnt turn to look at her” because you are all familiar with the story of orpheus and eurydice. but orpheus wasnt familiar with the story because he was in it lol.

[filthyprotozoan]

“i wouldn’t look back bc logically if she’s not there it wouldnt help to look and if she is there looking back would cause me to lose her” cool so has love never made you stupid and insane

[filthyprotozoan]

another thing thats interesting is i think most people assume its a walk of reasonably short length that you have to resist looking back. but we dont know how long that walk was. its out of the underworld, time could work very differently. could be days. could be months. could you walk for months without looking back to see if your love is okay? i dont think you could

[filthyprotozoan]

exactly. like oh you’re not going to look back? have you never lost a love? there is so much looking back.

[blackberryjambaby]

can anyone remember that post about how children write the best poems & it had an article attached showing the differences between little kids' poetry & preteens?? im desperate to find it again

[blackberryjambaby]

ok i found it! it's called the average fourth grader is a better poet than you (and me too)

here are three of my favourite excerpts

[only-knives]

[ID: Three screenshots of black text on a white background. The font is Times New Roman. Text within the brackets is italicized.

Image 1:

[Writing about life as a movie]

"The choir enters, and the director screams

Sing with more terror!!!"

Image 2:

[Writing about a family member's recent death.]

"My brother went down to the river

and put dirt on."

Image 3:

[Writing about a terminal illness.]

"I am feeling burdened

and I taste milk......

I mumble, 'Please,

please run away.'

But it lives where I live."

/End ID]

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