Quotes

Poetry Quotes and Other Things

[recoverr-a-deactivated20210530]

i hope you remember it’s very human and normal to crave affection, human interaction, attention and love. you’re not “too needy” or “too sensitive” for wanting to have your emotional and social needs met accordingly. 

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, "DEPRESSION [VERB]", Lord of the Butterflies

[metamorphesque]

from Vahan Teryan's letter to Nvard Toumanyan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

[deandraxon]

Made the mistake of bringing up that needing glasses is a disability on tiktok and people got real mad.

“You can fix it with glasses” yeah, cuz they’re a disability aid? But like, I still have to pay 160 bucks to use my own fucking eyes?

Like, by definition, if your eyes do not work without aid, you have a disability to see.

Having a disability doesn’t automatically put you in what people consider the “disabled” category, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is in fact, a disability.

[deandraxon]

Thank you to the person who brought this post back into my notifs because I just recently got a new pair of glasses!

And it only cost me $305!! What a steal!! A perfectly acceptable price to pay to be able to properly function in society! (Internal screaming)

[antiterfbutch]

Please always remember that glasses are a disability aid. Some of us literally cannot function without them.

[ashfae]

The fact that it's incredibly common and socially acceptable does not make it any less a disability aid.

[sotrias-labyrinth-deactivated20]

I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.

[secretlyatargaryen]

I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else’s story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.

[fiti-vation]

[ernasd]

oh this is a life saver

[gallusrostromegalus]

So these are both “Aw Fuck I’m outta real food” meals BUT ALSO:  if you’re learning how to cook, these are great “baby steps” meals to learn how to cook basics into something enjoyable without “wasting” anything expensive.  Though I maintain that even cooking screw-ups are valuable in terms of lessons learned.

Also they’re great for when you get absorbed in something and you realize your blood sugar is dropping and you need to make something Quick.

[petermorwood]

Making basic storecupboard or fridge ingredients less basic and more nutritious.

[neil-gaiman]

This is wonderful.

[astriloquum]

Frida Kahlo, from a letter wr. c. November 1933, featured in The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas

[corruptedtwinks]

pouring-out-poetry \\ Lidia Yuknavitch \\ ??? \\ Haruki Murakami \\ Anne Carson \\ Catherine Abbey Hodges \\ Anne Sexton \\ Germaine de Stael \\ Anne Sexton

[weltenwellen]

Ruth Awad, from “Reasons To Live”

[primaveraj]

on love and longing

emily palermo, what i could never confess without some bravado / motion city soundtrack, when you're around / richard siken, you are jeff / juansen dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction / ve schwab, the invisible life of addie larue / hera lindsay bird, pamper me to hell and back / ryebreadgf, 300122 / hozier, work song / tullipsink, desperation sits heavy on my tongue / margaret atwood, speeches for dr frankenstein

[quotessssssss]

'I’m battling monsters, I’m pulling you out of the burning buildings and you say I’ll give you anything but you never come through.'

-Richard Siken, Crush

[sarcasticsunshine123]

my favourite parts from Trista Mateer's collection The Dogs I Have Kissed:

—ask me to stay

—I swear somewhere this works

—please don't bring this up on the phone

—for brittanie

—I don't know what any of this means

—sweet tea and seven other texan cliches

—for the one who loved my hands more than anything else

—violets, violets, violets

—when I was a little girl

—the poet

+ all of for selene who isn't dead but wanted to be

[daisychainsandbowties]

thinking about this one today

chen chen, from when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities

[theinwardlight]

Poem from The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme. 

[thetragicallynerdy]

[ID: Photo of a poem from a book.

Jesus at the Gay Bar

He’s here in the midst of it - right at the centre of the dance floor, robes hitched up to His knees to make it easy to spin.

At some point in the evening a boy will touch the hem of His robe and beg to be healed, beg to be anything other than this;

And He will reach His arms out, sweat-damp, and weary from dance. He’ll cup this boys face in His hand and say,

my beautiful child there is nothing in this heart of yours that ever needs to be healed.

End ID.]

[wordsthatkeepmyfeetdry]

Jesus at the Gay Bar by Jay Hulme

[depsidase]

[redarmyscreaming]

Sharecropping.

[transcyberism]

FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.

[follow-the-journey]

A national park I worked at had all the permanent rangers (I was seasonal) basically on stand by for call outs 24-7 or they were penalized on their reviews.

They got tired of it, sued, won, and the nps had to pay back YEARS of back wages for stand by time. Now they are all scheduled and if* you get called out its time and a half.

ONLY because some rangers stood up.

[sunlit-capybara]

If your employer does this: document document document, then find an attorney

[quotessssssss]

'At school I told the boyI liked, the boy with the best mile times on the team that I was just getting some extra practice & wasn't careful and guess now I'll never be as good as you this season. He looked at me for a moment. Looked away.

I didn't tell him I spent all night in a tree because my mother slapped me after I told her I might be gay. I didn't tell him that I hir her back

That my father tried holding us apart like the universe's saddest referee.'

[quotessssssss]

'My mother was in the hospital and everyone wanted to be my friend.

.....

My mother was in the hospital and no one wanted to be her friend. Everyone wanted to be soft cooing sympathies.'

-Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities