and i am out with lanterns looking for myself

my heart is with the sea but i’m in the midwest

[allsadnshit]

A Truly Good Life, 2024, 柯怡如

[araekniarchive]

feel free to skip if uncomfortable: may i get a request of trauma around your mom?

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh

Annie Ernaux, I Remain In Darkness

Joan Tierney, How To Build A Table

Mad Men (2007–2015), 6x12: The Quality of Mercy

Chen Chen, Poplar Street

Lynne Shako, To The Daughter Who Secretly Longs For Her Mother’s Affection

Mary Jean Chan, what my mother (a poet) might say

Joan Tierney, DO NOT REPLY

Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

Phoebe Bridgers, Motion Sickness

Zeena Abbas, Mom, I Know We Haven’t Spoken In A While But

Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom, trans. Chi-Young Kim

Jenny Holzer, Untitled (Food Won’t Go Down...), from Inflamatory Essays

@fuckingwhateverdude, THERAPY SESSION BETWEEN THE GRANDMOTHER, THE MOTHER AND THE DAUGHTER (PART I)

Sophocles, Elektra, trans. Anne Carson

Ocean Vuong, A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read

Wych Elm, Susan Smith

Junot Diaz, Wildwood

[sweatermuppet]

from the laments series (1989) by jenny holzer

[Text ID: there is no one's skin under my fingernails. there is no one to watch my hair grow. no one looks at me when i walk. people want me to pay money for each thing i get. i have every kind of thought and that is no embarrassment. i look at myself when i bathe. what i give to all the people who do not want to live with me is arithmetic. i count infants and predict their days. i subtract peopled killed for one reason or another. i guess the new reasons and project their efficacy. i decorate my numbers and circulate them. /End ID]

[nevver]

Tell me about it, Jenny Holzer

[bloodyhart]

jenny holzer - living (1980-1982)

[rozieramati]

[tunisian]

i am working towards the life i have always wanted to live

[tunisian]

anna haifisch // @molabuddy

[outwithlanternslookingformyself]

[weltenwellen]

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

[outwithlanternslookingformyself]

[becomingvecna]

— David Cronenberg, Consumed

[sunsbleeding]

[weltenwellen]

Ada Limón, from "Crush", Sharks in the Rivers

[weltenwellen]

Ruth Awad, "Moral Inventory"

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

[weltenwellen]

 Li-Young Lee, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance

[fionaapplerocks]

Fiona Apple // photo Eric Robert, 1996

[fionaapplerocks]

Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills.. [x]