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[vexheart]

Being sensitive is a strength—it means you feel deeply. But unkindness? That’s a choice, and a sad one.

[norfisthewhimsy]

[ode-oldestdaughterenergy]

Being on Tumblr at 27 feels like slipping into an old hoodie you forgot you owned—still soft, still familiar, but smelling just a little off, like time left its fingerprints all over it. I scroll past teenagers crying about things I once thought would end me, and I feel this deep, infuriating nostalgia for the days when my biggest problem was whether I should reblog another sad poem about loneliness or just stew in my own misery like a proper little tragic protagonist. Now I’m married, paying bills, making grocery lists, and pretending I have my shit together while some 17-year-old on my dash is losing their mind over a breakup they’ll barely remember in five years. And I get so fucking mad because I *remember* being them. I remember thinking life couldn’t possibly get harder, that I was drowning, and somehow, despite all of it, I still had the time and energy to romanticize the pain. What I wouldn’t give to go back to the simple agony of it all, back when my suffering felt poetic instead of exhausting. When I could just scroll and scroll, and every post felt like someone reaching out through the void to say, *yeah, I get it.* Now? Now I get it too much, and it fucking sucks.

[sleepy-vix]

[hiran-mayi]

[ting-yaps]

Sorry mom,

I'm sorry, I'm a failure.

[hiran-mayi]

[millersamour]

A good dog always finds its way back home

Clarice Lispector A Hora da Estrela / Heather Havrilesky Ask Polly: Help, I'm The Loneliest Person In The World / Sarah J Maas Heir of Fire / Louise Glück Timor Mortis / Molly McCully Brown Falling Down / Mitski Cop Car / Yves Olade Belovéd

(All photos from pinterest)

[livvyfrankenstein09]

it’s just the traumatized oldest daughter in me

[erenfox]

oh real and fictional older sisters, you'll always be tragic.

[hiran-mayi]

[cripsy-cunt]

Lansing, MI

10/24/25

[ramblingsfromthytruly]

"Sonder" — noun. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.

[starwarsgrl77]

A part of me is missing

[nixscriptum]

[lelif]

the beauty of life

- // @fairycosmos // ? // - // @cassidyshotchocolate // - // - // elsie de wolfe// @podencos // afternoon on a hill, edna st. vincent millay// rien ne va plus, margarita karapanou, tr. by karen emmerich// - // - // @ annalauraart on instagram// culpable, joy sullivan// - // @ jordanklancaster on instagram// @ niall.breen.comics on instagram// agatha christie// @plasticlove1984 //sweeter than fiction, taylor swift// the summer day, mary oliver

[morverenmaybewrites]

[poets-archive]

It's late, and I'm in the kitchen for a glass of water. For just a second, I thought I smelled something like sawdust.

It reminded me of sweeping up my grandpa's work desk while he fiddled with his tools. I can smell the little pellets of dirt he germinated in the basement before planting them in the garden. Tomatoes and peppers.

Yellow tomatoes.

Sometimes I think I'm doing okay, and then I remember something so simple, something at the time I didn't think anything of.

I'd do a lot of things to be cleaning up his workshop and eat tomato sandwiches with him.