lions and men

“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.”

[kiisuuumii]

Richard Siken, "Landscape with Several Small Fires," War of the Foxes

[everythingever]

the vocabulary of loss is the dictionary

[kiisuuumii]

Richard Siken, "Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light," War of the Foxes

[zegalba]

Ludwig Rösch: Stephansdom, Pilgrim's Pulpit (1936)

[iminastateagain]

painting: The Forest in Winter at Sunset by Théodore Rousseau, 1846 – 1867

poems: Dirty Valentine by Richard Siken

winter migrants by Tom Pickard

[weltenwellen]

Hua Xi, from "Night Drive Through My Own Life"

[luthienne]

How could we forget the myths about dragons who at the last moment transform into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses waiting to see us act just once with courage.

Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet (tr. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)

[julykings]

yesterday’s sketchbook, words from sparrow by big thief

[baltears]

why is explaining a villains sad backstory always taken as an effort toward excusing their actions. why does the conversation need to involve the question of excusing anything rather than just making their present behavior way more interesting by complicating their feelings or their motivations. why is acknowledging complicated feelings or motivations taken as apologism in and of itself. why is everyone so incredibly boring

[firstfullmoon]

anne boyer “the harm will come: it never doesn’t” / julia armfield “to watch a horror movie is to know that something bad is going to happen. to have a body is really the same thing” / hilary mantel “we don’t have to invite pain in, it’s waiting for us: sooner rather than later” / marie howe “you know how we’ve been waiting for the big pain to come? I think it’s here. I think this is it. I think it’s been here all along” / gregory orr “I want to go back to the beginning. we all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. but I’m wrong” / toni morrison “the hurt was always there” / torrey peters “pain that had to be endured, withstood, pain that was the same as being alive, and so without end”

[firstfullmoon]

#that one line from sharp objects … #do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen and you can’t stop them? you can’t do anything you just have to wait?

[firstfullmoon]

#THE lake mungo quote #I feel like something bad is going to happen to me. I feel like something bad has happened. it hasn’t reached me yet but it’s on its way

[ruhlare]

[tangerinesofmint]

[text id:

"let me be gentle with you," he said, "allow me to feel your soul."

end id.]

[roadmotel]

George Seferis tr. by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard, Last Stop

[10192167]

god's discarded puppet vessel

family tree (intro), ethel cain / tumblr post / to err is human, so don't be one, will wood / tumblr post / screenshots of despair / working for the knife, mitski / franz kafka / left alone, fiona apple

[thepixelmoon-deactivated2025120]

— With teeth, Kristen Arnett

[text ID: Maybe love is always a thing that's resting right on the edge of violence.]

[flowerytale]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenská (Prague, September 14, 1920)

[ceejoules]

not writing, not not writing, but a secret third thing

[lady-grace-pens]

letting my stories spin around my head like a microwave

[greelin]

epic that anxiety is not confined to the brain and just poisons every inch of the body. stomach. chest. neck. shoulders. everywhere else. really really cool