Nyxia Reverie

•you drew stars around my scars• [she/her]

[sagunrana]

We need to stop feeling guilty about taking breaks. We need to normalise taking a (few) day(s) off. The world as we know it today, is so toxic that our minds need space and time to reboot and detoxify. And it’s completely fine and just! Let’s normalise this.

[soracities]

Yusef Komunyakaa, from "The Cage Walker", Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems [ID in ALT]

[sagunrana]

my month <3

[cuddle-pubble]

There are different ways to say that I’m thinking about you, it can be articulated without a single phrase. We don’t always consciously realize it, that silent wish that in your life, someone stays. A friend hands you a book you might like, you get a postcard in the mail, your favorite food waiting in the kitchen after passing an exam you thought you might fail. The sending of a song or waking up to a cup of coffee by the table just because that is how you would like to start the day. “ I made a reservation at that place”, red rose and white peonies on the counter, “it was time to fill the vase”.

“I’m thinking about you”

Such a gentle thing to say, they cut your sandwich in half because they know you like it that way. “ I bought you those dark chocolates because I know you like them that way”, or “ I heard hot baths helps those cramps that you hate”. Different ways to say it but how many do we miss? The intimacy of thinking that, which can’t be captured in a kiss. Different ways to say it but how many do they hear? A message can be loud but not necessarily clear…..

There’s different ways to say it and sometimes we don’t have a clue

[sagunrana]

And this made me think of you…

[nakedmonkey-deactivated20250904]

I just did exactly what I said I wouldn't do and went into the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp rabbit hole and...fuck.

It's insane how all women have to do to be condemned is fight back, when men are granted the benefit of the doubt from day 1. All he had to say was "she also hit me" and now it's like a fucking race to prove how bad SHE was, literally bending over backwards to say "she did it too". It makes me sick.

[weavingshaw]

the fact that so many of yall are so quick to demonize amber heard because she fought back against her abuser shows just how shallow ur support truly is. yall only wanna protect victims of abuse as long as theyre docile, cowering little lambs who dont and/or cant defend themselves. shut the fuck up

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[sagunrana]

Ohmygod YES!

I am glad this is being talked about more often than ever!

Throughout high school and early college life, I could never commit to things for a very long time. I have always been the kind of person who knows something about everything and there’s nothing more that I love than to get in those spur-of-the-moment learning sessions with myself, especially about completely random stuff. These sessions are of course short-lived but so is everything else, isn’t it?

I mean, when we get hung up on the idea of forever, all we end up doing (most of the times) is nothing. And even if we do, we pressurise ourselves so much towards the long term part of it, that we end up sucking out all the happiness and joy out of it.

And I really don’t get why we are always conditioned to do only those things that only serve our “superficial” ultimate purpose. I don’t know what kind of superpower people have that they already know what their ultimate purpose is, with literally zero experience.

It’s really a hoax, the concept of longevity and forever. Really! Try to live a day or two out of this concept. Start doing more things only for the pure joy of doing them and it will really change your perspective towards everything. 🌻

[iwishhiwasdeadl-deactivated2021]

[omegaverse]

I feel like a proud fisherman whenever i listen to a lot of good music in a day. Excellent haul

[givemearmstopraywith]

no more perfect skin. no more adjectives like porcelain glossy dewy. no more 34 step skincare regimens. ive decided you only look hot if you have acne now

[deviika]

Mahmoud Darwish // Catherynne M. Valente

[sagunrana]

sometimes, yes!

[travelferry]

🥀After all this time, this is what I have learnt:

Life is much shorter than how we perceive it. One minute you are starting your day, and the other minute you cannot wait for it to end so that you can hit the bed and finally get some rest. Sure, there are days when time passes “slowly” but I have learned to be glad for days where I can slow down, pause, reset and recharge for whatever is in store for me next.

I’ve finally realised that life is not perhaps, about appreciating small moments, it’s about realising that all there is are small moments and it is only our mindset defining a moment as small or big or good or bad.

[quotefeeling]

“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don’t work.”

— James Frey

[sagunrana]

Sometimes, all the time.

[chthonic-empyrean]

"And God said, "Love your enemy,"

and I obeyed him and loved myself."

- Khalil Gibran

[closet-keys]

you can tell a lot about the values of the culture you’re in when it comes to making hard decisions, and what decisions are considered “extreme, but necessary” versus what decisions are considered “unthinkable.”

right now, the culture I’m inside of says that over 400,000 people within our borders dying from covid-19 is “extreme, but necessary” but that taxing billionaires and using the money to give everyone guaranteed shelter, food, clean water, and supplies, and to pay everyone to stay home until there are no cases left is considered “unthinkable.”

[closet-keys]

Approaching one million deaths now.

[ihopeucomehomesoon]

the feminine urge to release a gut-wrenching scream from the depths of your soul

[orionsangel86]

From facebook; mic drop.

[feverblues]

“Maybe in a year I could write something. There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.”

— Sharon Olds, from “September 2001: New York City,” in Stag’s Leap (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012)