luna

how do you love? like a fist. like a knife.

[academic-vampire]

𝔰𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤

[sonacava]

that’s all there is ⋆˙⟡

[oblivionsdream]

Don’t mind me just crying over Jean Moreau.

I can’t wait to see him continue healing in book 2. 😭

[lovsome]

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

[metamorphesque]

why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

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[of-the-way-and-wildflowers]

Books Read in 2021: Aurora's End

Colorful Minds: ↳ Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley ▪︎ Midnight Blue and Silver

"Tomorrow might be worth a million yesterdays." ▪︎ Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley

[selves-acceptance]

there’s nothing heroic about burnout. there’s nothing heroic about not sleeping, or forgetting to eat because you’re so focused on wanting to help someone.

save the world, but the world includes you.

[pascalcampion]

Wouldn’t it?

Blacklivesmatter.carrd.co

#pascalcampion

[epic-sorcerer]

This shook me to my core

[thesillyhaley]

This was so lovely.

But it’s worth mentioning that the second I saw the panel with the cop, my heart dropped, and it’s a shame that this is the initial reaction that I have towards cops interacting with POC

[odinsblog]

The fact that the notes are filled with non-Black people who suddenly got worried when they saw the cop ….. in an illustrated story.

Now try imagining how hard it is irl for Black mothers, and Black people in general. Each encounter with the police could end with our death, even if we did absolutely nothing wrong.

I think most of us deal with it—bc let’s face it, we have no other choice—but I’d be lying if I said that every single time I come into close proximity to the police, somewhere in the back of my mind there wasn’t always the thought: “what if …”

“what if today is the day” … “what if this cop had a bad morning” … “what if this cop doesn’t like black people” … “what if he thinks my phone is a gun” … “what if he thinks I’m acting suspicious” … “what if he needs to fill a quota” … “what if he mistakes me for some nondescript black man but I fit the description anyway” … “what if my car insurance payment didn’t go through and I don’t know about it” … “what if I have a taillight out” …. “what if he thinks I have a bad attitude” … “what if it was a rough day for me and I do have a bad attitude” … “what if there’s not even any cops around but a white person thinks I look out of place” … what if what if what if

Obviously I cannot speak for everyone who is Black, but these thoughts flash through my mind every single time I see a cop. Every time. Maybe it only takes a microsecond, but it’s always there. Always.

LOL. I know we may make it look easy. But yeah, it’s still there.

And even though I’m very healthy and I manage to … adapt(?) to those fears, I figure that kind of constant on/off stress has gotta be taking some kind of toll on me, right? On Black people in general. It’s like perpetually unexpected games of Russian roulette. Or maybe like the Spanish Inquisition. (No one ever expects it).

Sometimes I wonder if white people understand the constant extra calculations that Black people are doing continuously as we’re out and about. Calculations for any contingency encounter with the police. Or with some white person who might call the police because they’ve mistaken my melancholy mood for “suspicious” behavior. Calculations that white people don’t ever need to do. At least, not because of simply being in the general proximity of the police.

Nice to see that some people “get” it.

[rod1on]

americans *see a third world country doing something progressive*: how come those disgusting SAVAGES are ahead of US???

[tinynebula]

Latinamerica in general is ahead of the USA in countless things. human rights. labor laws. education policies. healthcare. LGBT rights. decriminalization of recreational drugs. suffrage laws. welfare policies. but they're so insistent on this image of latinamerica as this lawless wasteland of underdeveloped misery and despair that they cannot fathom the idea of us being better at something they consider progress. To them, progress is necessarily economical superiority and industrial power. everything else comes after. So if a country doesn't have a strong industrial economy then of course they're "inferior" in everything else.

of course, latinamerica is not a monolith, there are more than 40 counties that make up latinamerica. but if you start looking closer, you'll find we have a lot of values in common that we do not share with the loud neighbors of the global north.

[gaycommunist]

losing a friend (for the one that got away) 1/3

part 2

@frenchtoastlesbian on tumblr // pinterest personalmessage.blogspot.com // @linguinereid on tumblr // trista mateer // from pinterest // richard siken // ocean vuong “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous”// from pinterest // from pinterest

[small-strong-bookish-butch]

Image description: lyrics from the chorus of Why We Ever by Hayley Williams: “And now I/ can’t seem to remember why/ we ever/ felt we had to say goodbye/ I can’t seem to remember why/ can’t seem to remember why”

[words-and-coffee]

“The world had changed a great deal, but the little rules, contracts and customs had not, which meant the world hadn’t actually changed at all.”

— Cho Nam-Joo,  Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (translated by Jamie Chang)

[two-thirtyy]

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

[hungwy]

being cosmically "insignificant" doesnt even matter like its not important......... like literally lets enjoy a strawberry

[prinsomnia]

rich in stars

[afriblaq]

[vraisetzen]

a friendly reminder that microaggressions against asians can also look like this:

pretending to gag at asian food

pretending to be weirded out by asian customs and cultures

excusing cultural appropriation (often through ignoring the stories of asians who have been mocked for wearing their ethnic dress while praising a white person for doing so)

not trying to learn how to pronounce an asian person's ethnic name correctly, or asking, "can i call you by something else?"

adopting an asian name for the ~aesthetic~

using the words "oriental" and "exotic" to describe asian people, particular asian women

ignoring the experiences and stories of south, southeast, and central asians

making sweeping assumptions about asian countries (including their political, historical and cultural landscape)

treating the entire asian community as a monolith and ignoring the fact that the experiences of asian nationals are remarkably different from the asian diaspora/migrant community

co-opting asian aesthetics into creative media without acknowledging their history

[dadplease]

if you don’t understand how what happened in atlanta was a racist hate crime, even after the shooter said he was trying to “eliminate” sexual “temptation”, please educate yourself on the fetishization of asian women and try again.