archive of longings

aelin • she/her • twenties • books, marvel, fics, tv series, films, etc. • half agony, half hope • ☾ you are my king now, cariad. ☽

[luthienne]

Sally Rooney, from an interview with Rosa Lyster, as featured in Hazlitt Magazine (transcription below cut)

Lyster: What do you love about these characters?

Rooney: The idea of loving a fictional character is something that gets discussed a little bit in the novel itself. It's an interesting idea for me, partly because all my life I've loved fictional characters very much, and in a way that has felt meaningful to me, almost like loving a real person. What does it mean to love a person who doesn't exist? And relatedly: what does it mean to love a person who does?

[lifeinpoetry]

If I could do girlhood again, I’d ask

to be scarier. Less whimpering—more pyromaniac

urges, more flirting with kerosene.

— Sally Wen Mao, from “Drop-kick Aria,” Mad Honey Symposium

[poetry-siir]

[soracities]

Asli Mahdi, "Origin Story #4", pub. The Offing [ID'd]

[likeahauntingmelody]

before sunrise (1995)

[underrtheskinn]

Mansfield park (1999)

[flowerynameslover]

Mansfield Park (1999)

[didanagy]

MANSFIELD PARK (1999)

dir. patricia rozema

[winged-thinged]

You have to let people love you. You have to let people get to know you. You have to let people help you. Being so completely selfless that you try to erase yourself off the face of the planet and never ask for anything and reject everybody's offers of support makes you very hard to love! Unfortunately. Emptying yourself out of everything that makes you, you is not actually what your loved ones want from you, generally. They want to make you happy! They will be so so sad if you don't give them the chance. It's not all selfish. I promise.

[bisexualcunt]

Multiple mutuals may need to hear this: its fine to talk about wanting to fuck that old man. I get it. I understand. Much love.

[sourdough-seal]

hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

[statictay]

once again i love how star wars takes place in a massive galaxy with thousands of planets and billions of people, and yet every bounty hunter knows each other personally

[dragonfox-in-a-teacup]

It's called networking babe

[hollanderthoughts]

can yearning make you sick

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)

[glowcowboy]

“it’s not that deep” it’s not that shallow. now what

[pollen]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West