[assiraphales]

“people who have never left their home towns are so small minded and boring” is something I wish we could leave behind because on one hand it’s an incredibly classist statement (what if they don’t have the money to leave? what if they have family obligations? why is the default to call them uninteresting when they didn’t have the funds or privilege to go to school or travel?) and on the other………….have we considered that some ppl are happy? that keeping roots in the soil you were born, staying in a community that nourishes you, isn’t embarrassing or shameful?

[alienaficionados]

““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””

— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)

[fa1ryyz]

i love this video and i cry every time i watch it

TERFS DNI

[saltborns]

in defense of venetia rose catton.

[junglejim4322]

Blows my mind how there’s ppl that are straight up lik “I don’t watch movies” “I don’t really like music” “I don’t care about food” “I don’t read books” what exactly do you like or do ever

[weltenwellen]

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

[weltenwellen]

Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

[selkielore]

negative space

[morallyambiguous]

rick bursky / the man with a hole in his head

[poetryep]

i wish things could have been different btwn sierra and i

[wovi]

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fun. / heather havrilesky / elle emerson (@transsextual) / david levithan / killdads on twt / elena ferrante / michael cunningham / jennifer hubbard

[east-of-nowhere]

[mayahart]

—poplar street, chen chen happy birthday, max (@eldestboy) ♡

[petrichara]

‘Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.’

“Eulogy from a Physicist” by Aaron Freeman, with quotes from Interstellar by Christopher Nolan, and images from NASA, Interstellar, Getty, Petrichara, and Reuters.

1- NASA: GOODS-South.

2- NASA: NGC 1850.

3- NASA: Iberian Peninsula.

4- Christopher Nolan: Interstellar.

5- NASA: From the Earth to the Moon.

6- Hannah La Folette Ryan: Subway Hands.

7- Adams Evans: Heart Nebula.

8- NASA: Exploring the Antennae.

9- NASA: Crescent Moon from the International Space Station.

10- Petrichara.

11- Getty Images.

12- NASA: SMACS 0723.

13- Reuters

[havingapoemwithyou]

object permanence by Hala Alyan

[llovelymoonn]

james baldwin giovanni's room

kofi

[unteachings]

it still comes as a surprise that closeness cannot be achieved from a safe distance

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth”, Poems 1962-2012