Meretricious Fallacies

"the thrust of air, of swelling lungs and their squeezing. choking up the sounds, curling the tongue around each word and tasting its meaning." - s.m.o.

[cocksuredness-deactivated202410]

It is what it is but like. Can it be something else

[the-purvashadha]

"Would you peel an orange for me?"

I would peel a pomegranate for you.

[lifeinpoetry]

i want all the things i want. i don’t cry anymore. it is what it is.

— Ollie Schminkey, from "the scab to peel back," Dead Dad Jokes

[lifeinpoetry]

It’s not metaphor that bees make honey of themselves while language only dreams the hunted thing. Let’s be hungry a little while longer. Let’s not hurt each other if we can.

— Maya C. Popa, from "Wound Is the Origin of Wonder," Wound Is the Origin of Wonder

[roomba-witch]

Lol imagine beeing outside and then suddenly a bee flies like a fucking witch next to you

Curtesy of the BBC.

[stolenwine]

"healing comes in waves. and maybe today, the wave hits the rocks, and that's okay. that's okay, darling. you are still healing. you are still healing." - Ijeomu Umebimyuo

who ARE you thank you thank you thank you

[calmsuggestion]

we will mourn. and then, we will carry on.

[parsingbeauty]

“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.”

— Sarah Kay, from ‘Winter Without You (via wordsnquotes)

[parsingbeauty]

“He does realize what he lost. And that’s why he can’t speak to you now.”

— My brilliant mother (via bled)

[usergrantaire]

MAMMA MIA! (2008)

Concept of mini videos for Spotify

(insp, insp)

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[bropunzeling]

“And my body slopes toward yours no matter how level the ground.”

— Rosmarie Waldrop, from “Conversation 2” in Curves to the Apple (via forochel)

[safeguards]

[writingsforwinter]

-Meggie Royer

March 12, 2021

[natalieweepoetry]

John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885 / Natalie Wee, “Asami Writes to Korra for Three Years” 

[r-siken-deactivated20210531]

anyway, richard siken

[anditslove]

Trista Mateer, Honeybee