first they must catch you

[ramcoa]

If you lie about ramcoa, especially programming, actual survivors can spot it from 10 miles away. 👁️👁️

And stop fucking following me if you're a child. Log off.

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Passionate Apprentice,”

[hel7l7]

missing you is this dull ache that never leaves

[feral-ballad]

Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn: Poems; “Timing”

[Text ID: “there is a hole in my heart / that is bearing your shapes / over and over”]

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

[linkinmoon]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, in Letters (1952)

[metamorphesque]

Human Acts, Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)

[scensitive]

[virginiewoolf]

“So I have survived the struggle — so what now? I have survived — but for what?”

— Katharine Taylor Brennan, from The Personal Journal of an Ordinary Person

[feral-ballad]

Maya C. Popa, from Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “Duress”

[geryone]

Bluff, Danez Smith

[elizabethsinclair]

- 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚑 𝚜.

[cyberxbattalion]

[traumathoughts]

[talestalesof]

“The poem begins not where the knife enters but where the blade twists. Some wounds cannot be hushed”

— Hanif Abdurraqib, The Prestige

[soracities]

Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

[farmersdaughter444]

All eyes on you