Diário de Bruna

If you're nosy and want to read someone's diary If you cry and then blame it on your birthchart If you dive in even when you're afraid You're in the right place

[pens2wands]

Seja bem-vindo

Oi....

I'm Bruna.

I'm a Black-American woman who lives in Northeast Brasil.

I haven't been on Tumblr in almost a decade now. I've missed it. But this shit looks crazy to me. I feel like a mf that just got finished doing a 20 year bid in the pen, and now they holding the latest Iphone or some shit. I'll figure it out though.

I'm a writer. I used to writer for major tech companies and marketing agencies, while having my creative writing published in online and print publications based inside and outside the US.

Horror is where my heart is. Black Horror fiction specifically. To be Black and alive is an honor and a burden. The least we can have is the ability to to tell our own tales of the horror we imagine and live.

I'm gonna write and share here the things I've been too bitter to share. The things I'm too prideful to share.

Prazer 💜

[pens2wands]

Gimme Mine

I don’t know what to write anymore.

Every line is frustration and despair.

If I share it, the people may think that I don't care about past blessings.

And God may think me unworthy of any new ones.

When minor inconveniences make you question your life's value, dreaming of the future seems like disassociation instead of a plan.

Dream when the goal post has moved again?

I don’t want to hope this time.

I want what I worked for.

What we worked for.

What many died for.

I want what belongs to me and mine.

[pens2wands]

Greenwood

“Head on swivel,” they shout like an alarm.

[florial]

[loubis-and-champagne]

X

[pens2wands]

I've been unemployed for 11 months

It sucks. It hurts. I don't have my rent for April.

I don't miss work, but I miss the stability it offered me. I used to write for major tech companies and marketing agencies. Then I got laid off twice in one year by two different employers.

I need money not just to live, but to do the things I'd actually like to be doing. I have creative projects on hold because I can't afford to do them. You can't afford to do anything. My therapist told me I should change my relationship with money. Not allow it to...dictate my happiness. But that's easier said than done when you grew up poor and started helping with bills and things at 16. I was sending money home in college, after college, once I got my big girl job.

Poverty. I hate poverty. And once I started getting paid well, I felt like I had beaten it. Made it out. And now...i feel like it's something I wont ever escape. I'll never be stable. And it breaks my heart.

[pens2wands]

Smoke Break

I don't sleep very well

I lay in bed and watch the day go to night and then day again

The sunrise is beautiful at 5am

And reminds me that the spark at the end of this cig isn't the only light in my life.

[bloggergirlcecilialisbon]

[oukime]

[4mookiecookie20]

i try to be nonchalant but i've only ever known being dramatic

[ak-nm]

[lesser-flamingo]

I love the old timey phrase "you forget yourself". bro that was so impolite like do you even know who you are rn

[wanderlustfuldays]

Mosteiro da Santa Cruz Coimbra, Portugal

[fyblackwomenart]

Illustration by Haisoo - Inspired by the novel 'Poisson d’Or'

[softiekurbie]

Can’t Let Summer Past, Emily Manwaring, 2023

[fyblackwomenart]

"Vessels of the Alchemical Sun" by artist Marie Alexander

[pens2wands]

Faço quadrinhos sobre menstruação desde o ensino médio. No ano passado, me juntei a uma artista para agradar a adolescente que existe em mim e tornar a menstruação um pouco mais fácil de lidar. English Translation: I've been making comics about my period since I was in high school. Last year, I teamed up with an artist to please teenager in me, and make my period a little easier to deal with. "Period: O Gibi v.1"

[j-rdan]