stargazing

[tunisian]

any amount of love given will never be love wasted any amount of love given will never be love wasted any amount of love given will never be love wasted

[weltenwellen]

Ada Limón, from “The Unspoken”, The Hurting Kind

[heavensghost]

Richard Kadrey

[of-void-and-stars]

[ID: a transparent black and white image of a house over flames against a black background with text over it that reads: When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not. ED]

[quotefeeling]

“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”

— Robert Holden

[parfym]

When you separate an entwined particle and you move both parts away from the other, even at opposite ends of the universe, if you alter or affect one, the other will be identically altered or affected.

ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (2013) dir. Jim Jarmusch

[sacrificialdolly]

[locustsday-deactivated20240129]

cant stand regular ass girls who are maybe casually mean to others or have dark thoughts sometimes and think they're the worst people alive girl everyday a man walks away from raising his child and hes like okay with it. you're not evil

[locustsday-deactivated20240129]

Ur regular man has traumatized 5 women in his lifetime and is an alcoholic and u think ur so demonic cause you're filled with rage and envy... you are a normal person

[somespicyshrimp]

all jokes aside, it makes me very sad how literally the entire internet, especially social media, has just become more and more unapologetic in trying to wring as much money out of you as possible. can’t go on youtube without being bombarded by youtube red ads promising that if you just give them money, they’ll block the pesky ads who are also begging for your money. can’t stream a movie without searching for it on each of the dozens and dozens of streaming platforms. all demanding individual subscriptions for their tiny share of the world’s movies that used to just all be on netflix. every news site counting down your free three articles, all the while begging you to turn your adblock off. click off instagram’s stupid shopping tab, and the first post on your timeline is with #ad. and of course, now, tumblr’s adding post plus. i hate it!! hate getting advertised at everywhere i go. hate that social media’s not even supposed to be social anymore, just another thing to monetize. i’m so sick of it!!! can’t escape it ever!!! give us 9.99 per month for exclusive fucking content!! fuck!!

[betweendoctorsanddetectives]

2022

1. DRESS LIKE SHIT

2. KEEP YOURSELF SAFE

3. STOP WORRYING ABOUT HOW YOU APPEAR

4. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD

5. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WALK ON YOUR KNEES

6. ABORTION

7. TRANS RIGHTS

[xerox-candybar]

Wait wait wait

All of these are good things, but -- you cannot throw in a few scraps of Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" and deny us the full stanza:

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Check out the full poem, which is awesome, and read up on Mary Oliver! She is like a modern-day lesbian Thoreau.

[m3rm41dm0t3l]

[nymph3tam1n3-deactivated2023050]

[vnusplanetoflove]

love when one thing is like another thing... metaphors..... similes.... the universe repeats itself ...

[ryebreadgf]

ordinary things, s.t

[metamorphesque]

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm.

Sylvia Plath / 2046 (2004) dir. Wong Kar Wai / Henry Miller / One Fine Spring Day (2001) dir. Hur Jin ho / Franz Kafka / Norwegian Wood (2010) dir. Anh Hung Tran / Anaïs Nin / Girl From Nowhere (2018–) / Haruki Murakami / A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory / Benjamin Alire Sáenz

[carpentrix]

It’s rumored that emergency rooms and psychiatric wards are more active at the full moon. It’s rumored that crime spikes. It’s rumored that people get a little crazed and don’t know what to do with their bodies. You’ve heard these rumors. From bartenders and nurses and nursery school teachers. Maybe you’ve felt it your very self. I saw a neighbor on the street and asked how she was doing. “It’s the full moon, you know,” she said, “so I feel completely demented.” It made news that a town in England put more cops on patrol on full moons. Sylvia Plath knew: the moon “drags the sea after it like a dark crime.”

The “Moon in Full” series continues at the Paris Review with the Thunder Moon in July.

[deathlonging]

The female gaze.

Agnès Varda in Filming Desire: a journey through women's films // Article on the Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Drew Gregory // Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath // @moonylupinhasdemonpox on tumblr // The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood // Gold Rush by Taylor Swift

[metamorphesque]

“Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.” ― Nicole Krauss

1.Rumi | 2.Holly Warburton | 3.Maggie Stiefvater | 4.Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 5.Nickie Zimov | 6.Clarice Lispector | 7.Nigel Van Wieck | 8.Georgia O’Keeffe | 9.Andrew Wyeth | 10.Mary Oliver | 11.Ilenia Tesoro | 12.Sylvia Plath | 13.Walt Whitman | 14.Nickie Zimov | 15.Jean-Paul Sartre | 16.Lydia Roberts | 17.Natalie Wee | 18.Lew Thomas | 19.Albert Camus