[softsp-oken]

i know a bet a gambler wouldn't take

"i wasn’t much of a petty thief. i wanted the whole world or nothing."

psssst

[kosmogrl]

[inkskinned]

something about love makes you look at things differently. the really important part of this is that any love will work. if you love blue you will see it everywhere. if you love soft things you will note the cat and the thread count and the moss. you will find your best friend in ugly greeting cards and haunted dolls and terrible fanfics and since they remind you of her they will be beautiful.

so you will love the world differently for having loved someone else. you will love a certain cereal or pokemon because of your brother. you will hear your favorite band's song playing in a random store and the love of it will make the whole world a little more golden. you will read a poem so many times the words become their own creatures. you will find you cannot listen to certain music without thinking of your favorite show.

this velveteen rabbit transformation occurs. the love does not stop, it echoes.

[butterflypeaflowertea]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i was doomed to take things too seriously and think about them forever

[kosmogrl]

[themonstrousother-moved]

I Should like to Spend My Whole Life in Reading It": Repetition and the Pleasure of the Gothic, Rebecca E. Martin

[precious-silly-thing-deactivate]

Candle clocks

[capillaries-burst-from-boredom]

same energy tbh

[azspot]

“Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves.”

— Everyone Into The Grinder

[corneredanimal]

i have suffered less than christ but have complained way more abt it

[havingapoemwithyou]

Everything All at Once by Oliver Baez Bendorf

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[thequietabsolute]

Vladimir Nabokov, accounting for his notoriously poor verbal habits once said,

At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts. Even the dream I describe to my wife across the breakfast table is only a first draft. I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

[lamignonette]

[parfym]

Red is the color of lust, but green is what lust leaves behind, in heart, in womb. Green is what is left when ardor fades, when passion dies, when we die, too.

The Green Knight (2021) dir. David Lowery

[aseaofquotes]

Jennifer Hubbard, Try Not to Breathe

[exhaled-spirals]

— Will Rees, “Kafka the hypochondriac”

[kosmogrl]