where May afternoons land

sam, 20s, they/them

[stargirldotcom]

- wish i could do nothing with you

willing and able- noah kahan/ option on a poll from @stargirldotcom/ frog and toad/ @death-born-aphrodite/ our last night- better than ezra/ @stargirldotcom/ everything, everywhere, all at once/ @death-born-aphrodite/ calvin and hobbes

[petaltexturedskies]

You know, we thank some people for merely living at the same time as we do, I thank you for the fact that I met you, that I will remember you for all my life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

[angelicdewdrop]

[pkaykim]

Valentines gift for my girlfriend

Please don’t repost on other platforms!

[achillesinhighheels]

The Lovers by Jef Joseph Marie Thomas Lambeaux (1852-1908)

[haverst]

'you and me' by Diana Boier

source / Haverst

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”

— Haruki Murakami, from Kafka on the Shore (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)

[gildedlilacss-deactivated202605]

[softgrlfriend]

casting a spell. love will always find you! no matter how much you hide

[syring3]

[princeturtogo]

Johnny Cash’s letter to his wife June on her 65th birthday

Source: Mirror.co.uk

[makingimages]

[metamorphesque]

A traditional blessing or toast, used in Armenian culture, to wish a couple a long and harmonious marriage is "Մեկ բարձի վրա ծերանաք / Mek bardzi vra tseranaq" / "May you grow old on one pillow"; it is a wish that two lives become so entwined, they are forever inseparable. This phrase enchants me with its visual charm, for it vividly conjures an image of perfect unity — two souls resting each night on the same pillow, side by side, breathing dreams and sharing whispered secrets until the end of their days.

[beardedmrbean]

This is so gay my heart might just burst

[womenintheirwebss]

thinking about that toni morrison quote that went to the effect of ‘you’re looking in your children’s face to make sure their face is clean and their hair is combed and they’re looking in your face to see love.’ because it’s saur true.

[womenintheirwebss]

[jackkdaniels]

you know how people say that cats and dogs don’t feel love the way humans do but it’s like. “oh they don’t love you they just associate you with warmth and safety and seek out your company and being near you and spending time with you makes them feel comfortable and secure” bro if that’s not love then what the FUCK do you think love is???

[theheartmold]

love is real because my kitty cat seeks me out for warmth and safety and also so do my friends on account of the fact that i love them

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

It’s also just bullshit in general. The Human - Animal bond has been studied extensively and results in similar biological responses across animal groups and humans.

Not only do your dogs and cats love you, but your parrots love you. Your mice love you. Your lizards love you. Your ants love you. Your spider loves you.

Turns out bonding is just something we animals (humans included, bc we’re not fundamentally different from other animals as such statements op is referring to imply) like to do when we can afford to do it.

[catboybiologist]

Fucking THANK you

This is the #1 thing that people ask or say when they learn I have a tortoise- "oh, but does he actually love you?"

Look buddy. Maybe you have some specific definition of love that'll exclude anything other than human, or mammalian love.

But he recognizes me specifically, and when he sees me, he scoots his shelled butt out of his hut and cranes his neck up for little head scratches and maybe a dandelion leaf as a treat, and when he's out on the floor or on the field with me he likes the huddle on my shoes or under my legs and circle around them before going on his next adventure to nom a lil clover sprig

He associates me with warmth and safety and food and that good feeling on his skin he gets when I touch him gently. And whatever that manifests as in his little reptilian brain is some form of love.

[abigail]

i feel sick