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Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine / Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh / Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone / Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me / Kitty Stryker, “Radical Self-Reliance” Is Killing People. / Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, From my Life I Write to You in Your Life

blossomfully

Sue Zhao

#sue zhao

Tried to read an article about Stardew Valley and, four or five paragraphs into the article - paragraphs in which the author described being introduced to the game by her boyfriend but also energetically and enthusiastically and productively helping her mother garden, researching, digging, planting, doing various other things - she drops mid-sentence that her depression 'worsened' during this time and she cried 'randomly once a day' and I

I am once again asking an uncaring universe

Does 'depression' mean something different than I thought it did

I want the kind of depression this woman has where you cry once a day and not whatever it is I have

#kill me #depression #she's in a sexy American depression with a boyfriend and a garden and a writing career and I am #not

amouthfulloflove

“Know the prayer of fury, & know more that it has always belonged to you. But be careful. It will only make you hungrier.”

— Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing, ‘Guidebook for Wild Things Wishing toBe Tamed’ by Topaz Winters

#topaz winters

megairea

“This is not the moon, Nor is this the spring, Of other springs, And I alone Am still the same.”

— Ariwara no Narihira, from “This is not the moon”; One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (tr. by Kenneth Rexroth)

firstfullmoon

“I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvass for it, and the scene should be - solitude, and the figures - solitude - and the lights and shades, each a solitude. I could fill a chamber with landscapes so lone, men should pause and weep there; then haste grateful home, for a loved one left.”

— Emily Dickinson, from To Susan Gilbert, 27 November-3 December 1854 in “Letters Of Emily Dickinson” (via adrasteiax)

#emily dickinson

voirlvmer

I was wondering if you could help me find a poem, it had red riding hood and the wolf and survival themes but I'm afraid the only thing I remember is a line like "and I will cut my way out with only my teeth"

brenna twohy, “little red riding hood addresses the next wolf”

the moral of the story is, I will gut you if I need to. I will carve my way out with only my teeth.

#brenna twohy #red riding hood

weltenwellen

Simone Weil, tr. by Richard Rees, First and Last Notebooks

#simone weil

fuckyeahmeikokaji

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) in a press photo for Female Convict Scorpion: Grudge Song (女囚さそり　７０１号怨み節), 1973, directed by Yasuharu Hasebe (長谷部安春).

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24hoursinthelifeofawoman

Lovers at the movie 1940′s

weltenwellen

Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

princesskuragina

Sometimes I think about lesbian icon renée vivien lauging so hard she had to leave a lecture bc the man was talking about how a book of anonymously published love poetry was the pinnacle depiction of a young man’s desire towards women…… but it was her book. She wrote it. About her girlfriend.

emojisarestatussymbols

She’s the one on the left.

princesskuragina

She IS and I’m obsessed with this image but how could you leave out that the one on the right is the girlfriend in question

weltenwellen

Tara Bray, from “Listen” / Tony Hoagland, from “Peaceful Transition”, What Narcissism Means to Me / Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God / Mary Oliver, “When I Am Among the Trees”, Devotions