awaiting vienna

a collection of feelings that im trying to make sense of

[omenalehto]

soft evenings in summertime

[mothprincess]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Afternoon on a Hill,” Collected Poems

[franz-bauch-foto]

Winter

[omenalehto]

january embers / 2026

[omenalehto]

last light of the day

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“ai will replace you” i’d like to see ai yearn for her like i do

[petaltexturedskies]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[shesrllyshy]

If a man hates himself, he will punish you for loving him.

[deviika]

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

[shesrllyshy]

I remember sitting on these pebbles. Hearing the waves crash, eating my sandwich. Surrounded by beauty in Italy, but filled with grief.

I left him and there was an emptiness. Not because he was gone, but because he took so much from me. Manarola will see me again; next time i will be whole.

[fatmzehraa]

[louisegluck]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals [ID in alt text]

[teddypng]

Patricia Highsmith, Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995

[eymurn]

In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

[mournfulroses]

Rosa Chacel, from a diary entry featured in Diario, originally published in 1993

[nixscriptum]

[nomorechoirs]

“I have to tell you” by Dorothea Grossman

[metamorphesque]

kiss me hard enough to invert me

Yves Olade, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Nickie Zimov, Carmen Tyrrell, Stefano Dania, Edvard Munch, Angelica Alzona