HAYAT

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[i3y1]

"لا أحد يعيش حياته كما يتخيلها تمامًا، الجميع يتفاوض مع الواقع".

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

His talk of communing with ancient minds and glimpses into other worlds answered all her cosmic longings—the "Death and Stars" part of her.

– Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

[miamaimania]

“The Impossible III” by Maria Martins, 1946

[existential-celestial]

reinterpreting // no. 010916-101221

[majestativa]

To die as much as necessary. […] To grow back as much as needed.

WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA — Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, transl. by Magnus J. Krynski & Robert A. Maguire, (1981)

[somewordsarebiggerthanothers]

[flowerytale]

Charlotte Brontë, from “Jane Eyre”

[detailedart]

Saturn peeking behind the Moon, seen from the top of the Mauna Kea Volcana, in Hawaii, in September 2024. Do you realise a person on Earth took that picture. Wow.

[surqrised]

“How many times can the same thing break your heart?”

— Unknown

[feral-ballad]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

[Text ID: “you’re homesick / for all the lives / you’re not living.”]

[deathandmysticism]

Eastman Johnson, Anatomy Sketch Book, 1849

[pinkb-3-rries]

[horriblewithwords-deactivated20]

She’s an Angel in Disguise because I don’t see her in my Bedroom Sheets.

[redbudbutch-deactivated20221003]

This is a lesbian sex party invitation from 1970s San Francisco. I love that it has coffee stains on it, like it was left out on a table for a while.

[leatherdykelust]

Happy lesbian sex party day to those who celebrate

[omny-at]

“ما زلتُ أبحث عن شيء حين ضاع ضيَّعني.”

— محمود درويش (via omny-at)

[omny-at]

واسيني الأعرج

[omny-at]

“في نهاية طريق الوحدة يشعر المرء بأنهُ اعتاد، غادرتهُ الحاجة إلى الرفقة، إلى الأنس، يتساوى النوم والأرق، يصبح اللقاء بشخصٍ آخر مؤلماً كالشوكة. كالغربة.”

— أنسي الحاج (via omny-at)