oh, good for you

24 — toronto we buy balloons, we let them go

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

This gorgeous poem by Chaia Heller

[discourseoflove]

“The role of the artist is exactly the same role, I think, as the role of the lover. If you love somebody, you honor at least two necessities at once. One of them is to recognize something very dangerous, or very difficult. Many people cannot recognize it at all, that you may also be loved; love is like a mirror. In any case, if you do love somebody, you honor the necessity endlessly, and being at the mercy of that love, you try to correct the person whom you love. Now, that’s a two-way street. You’ve also got to be corrected. As I said, the people produce the artist, and it’s true. The artist also produces the people. And that’s a very violent and terrifying act of love. The role of the artist and the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see. Insofar as that is true, in that effort, I become conscious of the things that I don’t see. And I will not see without you, and vice versa, you will not see without me. No one wants to see more than he sees. You have to be driven to see what you see. The only way you can get through it is to accept that two-way street which I call love. You can call it a poem, you can call it whatever you like. That’s how people grow up. An artist is here not to give you answers but to ask you questions.”

— James Baldwin, “The Black Scholar Interviews James Baldwin,” Conversations with James Baldwin (edited by Fred L. Standley and Louis H. Pratt)

[kaalbela]

Protest for Palestine at Washington D.C., 20th October 2023. Photos taken by Nargis.

[glowcowboy]

holding my own face in my own hands and screaming “there is no connection without an open heart! you must be brave! you must be honest! you must be true!” in the mirror

[yourgothmom]

Ok but hear me out...

What if I'm scared?

[glowcowboy]

do it scared

[omegaverse]

This shit was better than whatever the fuck we have going on today ngl

[lakevida]

in bed with the lights off at 7:40pm big as fuck glass of ice water i don't care what happens to anyone or anything bye

[tunisian]

nothing gives me more peace than knowing that love will come back to me in many ways and different forms. i may have no idea what the future holds for me but at least there will be love. & a lot of it

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

i said 'explain physics to me like youre in love with me' and after a while of quiet he went 'everything sings'. so i get it now

[mjalti]

you think you’re waiting for love to find you when in reality it has saved you in a thousand different ways since the sun rose today

[allsadnshit]

Me tonight for some reason

[floridakilo]

its so crazay how being in a transitional period will have you obsessively reevaluating every decision in yr life to the point of actual insanity…hello

[floridakilo]

[floridakilo]

“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn’t even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn’t talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.” (Yiwei Chai)

[dailyfoodlovers]

if the world ran out of salt tomorrow i woouldnt even notice because i would have lready killed myself a week earlier when my sources informed me of the impending disaster

[kosmogrl]

[movedtofailhag2]

how it feels to be in a transitional period

[ocdnatural-deactivated20220809]

"some women just naturally want to wax their legs and put on makeup every single day and get botox injections and a nose job!!! let people do what they want!" you do realize you dont live in a bubble and your actions and thoughts are influenced by society at large. and that criticizing misogynistic systems put into place isnt attacking you directly. you get that right

[jame7t]

[quonunc]

I should be compensated for having to walk into a bookstore and see "booktok."