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21. she/her. scientist. womanist. multidisciplinary artist.

[kurtcobainindresses]

— Karen Russell, "The Ghost Birds" in The New Yorker (2021)

[kurtcobainindresses]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1869)

[sweatermuppet]

being in yr 20s is abt experiencing the worst thing you can imagine & then having to go to the grocery store

[sweatermuppet]

[sobs until im physically ill] [buys greek yogurt] [repeat]

[ryebreadgf]

From How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett

[pansy2025]

some of you guys have GOT to remember about fun

[pansy2025]

like it’s ok… just be a little silly… be annoying… be embarrassing… you are alive

[sproutlett]

i’m realizing that i have so much time. i have time to grow my hair long. i have time to cut it all off and then to grow it back again. i have time to discover new hobbies and give up on things that no longer serve me. i have time to grow and change and travel and change my opinions and live differently than how i am now. i have so much time. take a deep breath and slow down

[stuckinapril]

mastering being detached from everything yet being connected to everything at the same time. this is the secret to life i think

[stuckinapril]

[mothercain-deactivated20231124]

sorry i can’t come over, im ill with the human experience

[animatedtext]

[metamorphesque]

poetry recommendations for december

The Untrustworthy Speaker by Louise Glück

Ashes and Blossoms by Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Raw With Love by Charles Bukowski

Dear [ ] by Nick Lantz

The Language of the Birds by Richard Siken

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Snowdrops by Louise Glück

The Road Away by Kim Sowol

From June to December: Summer Villanelle by Wendy Cope

“After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad,” by Elisa Gonzalez

Letter to a Lost Friend by Barbara Hamby

buy me a coffee

[femalepope]

2023

SPEND AS MUCH TIME OUTDOORS AS HUMANELY POSSIBLE

THROW YOUR PHONE IN A LAKE

WRITE HANDWRITTEN LETTERS TO YOUR FRIENDS

EXTRACT MEANING FROM YOUR DREAMS

PRACTICE SERENITY

CULTIVATE GOOD POSTURE

WEEP PROFUSELY

DO THE DISHES AS SOON AS YOU'RE FINISHED EATING

LEARN TO WHISTLE

WEAR PERFUME

[quotemadness]

“Please be patient with me. Sometimes when I’m quiet it’s because I need to figure myself out. It’s not because I don’t want to talk. Sometimes there are no words for my thoughts.”

— Kamla Bolanos

[sawasawako-archived]

the answer to elitism is not anti-intellectualism. it is to stop defining art and literature the way white colonial supremacy does. like. ?

[desertsongpdf]

OCTOBER

henry ward beecher / tell me no secrets by joy fielding / greif by barbera crooker / anne of green gables by l.m. montgomery / two octobers by richmond lattimore / october by bobbi katz / something wicked this way comes by ray bradbury / a word for autmn by a.a. milne / october by robert frost

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(1) "October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The / month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. / Every green thin loves to die in bright colors"

(2) "October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and / shadows."

(3) "Yes, the October sunlight wraps me / in its yellow shawl, and the air is sweet / as a golden Tokay"

(4) "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped / from September to November, wouldn't it?"

(5) "Circle of gold on gold the year is kind / enough to bind / October on October and the ghost / of a touch lost"

(6) "October is / when night guzzles up / the orange sherbet sunset / and sends the day / to bed / before supper / and / October is when jack-o’-lanterns / grin in the darkness / and / strange company crunches / across the rumple of dry leaves / to ring a doorbell. October is / when you can be ghost, / witch, / a creature from outer space… / almost anything! / And the neighbors, fearing tricks, / give you treats."

(7) "First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys."

(8) "Oh hushed October morning mild, / The leaves have ripened to the fall; / Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild / Should waste them all."

(9) "The of summer is not the end of the world. Here's to october"

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[metamorphesque]

October is my empire. Terror is part of me. 一 Tamura Ryūichi

1. Alfonsina Storni, 2. Cy Twombly, 3. William Stanley Merwin, 4. Cy Twombly, 5. Virginia Woolf, 6. Jorge Albericio, 7. Gala Mukomolova, 8. Andrei Tarkovsky, 9. Czesław Miłosz, 10. Andrei Tarkovsky, 11. Thomas Wolfe, 12. Andrei Tarkovsky, 13. Louise Glück

[coffeepeople]

I find it endlessly fascinating that most humans just want someone who will get up in the middle of the night to close the windows with them when it starts down pouring. We want someone to dry our dishes after we wash them. We just want another person to do mundane activities with. We want to tell someone how the copy machine broke at work and we want to listen to how Debra is causing office drama again. We just want something so simple. We want human connection and honesty and to be bored with someone else instead of bored alone. 

[modelsof-color]

Robby Carney and LZ Granderson by Emmanuel Sanchez Monsalve for Out Magazine , Feb 2020

[sarpedon]

ive worn heart shaped glasses for almost 4 years and they are just like my Thing and i love them so much and so often people will say shit like Oh Id Love To Wear Something Like That But I Could Never Pull It Off and like... babe no one can theyre heart shaped glasses u dont wear them to look flattering or stylish or whatever u wear them to make ur soul happy

[sarpedon]

stop worrying about whether u look Nice and start worrying about whether u look like You

[sarpedon]

i didnt articulate it well so i just wanna clarify. the point of this post was not "fuck the haters wear what you want" it was "fuck the idea that clothes and accessories exist to make you look good they should exist to make you happy"