Splendid Island

the only thing more powerful than hate is love social worker | writer | reader

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

no one is coming to save yo- wrong!! everyone who has ever shown you love and/or care is saving you a little bit.

[aquacademic]

[savannahcore27]

[cancerianmusings]

Lauryn Hill reading the book “Letters to a Young Poet” by Rainer Maria Rilke, in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) dir. Bill Duke

[bonivers]

And Now That You Don’t Have To Be Perfect You Can Be Good 2026

[lynothy]

[notasoupcompany]

[danielas-uploadsblog]

“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”

— Harun Yahya (via ehstrela)

[chandajaan-deactivated20220615]

Reminders to myself for future reference:

Paint your mum a painting every year for her birthday

Write letters not cards for birthdays

Keep lots of children’s literature in your home for all the visiting kids (and let them keep them if they love it)

All your guests should have their poloroids taken, and put on the fridge

Couches face each other not the tv

Do I need a tv? (Laptops and projectors work just fine)

Get big jars for preserving lemons

Wallpaper can go on the ceiling too!

Books shouldn’t be empty (sticky notes and flowers need somewhere to go)

Bookshelves should have board games, magazines, photos, ceramics and of course books.

Ugly armchairs are investments

Have paintings and art on the wall please

That being said, have beautiful bowls and ceramics first, they’re both art, but you can’t eat off a canvas

Leave notes around the house, and make sure to add a drawing to make it engaging

Lots and lots of lamps and ambient lights, and make sure they’re warm toned

Journaling makes you happy, stop forgetting that.

Big calendars are helpful

You like watercolour more than acrylic, but your better at acrylics (buy less acrylic)

A physical hand written recipe book is useful, you hate most recipes you get online.

Librarians are lovely people and they won’t be mad at you (just return the book)

Read one book before buying two more

You don’t actually like cereal that much

You should have a rocking chair one day.

[stuckinapril]

2024

FALL AND GET UP AND FALL AND GET UP AND FALL AND GET UP

OLD RECEIPTS AS BOOKMARKS

WRITE LETTERS YOU WILL NEVER SEND

READ A POEM IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ABANDONED PARK ON A CLOUDLESS NIGHT

TRIP AND FALL INTO A WELL

BECOME A KEYCHAIN ON A COOL GIRL'S KEY RING

EVISCERATE UNENDING GUILT

THE SEA AT SUNSET

DANCE TO MUSIC FIRST THING IN THE MORNING

NO GUILTY PLEASURES. INDULGE THAT WHICH MAKES YOUR HEART FULL

SILLY TRINKETS

FLOWERS CAN TALK AND THEY SAY HI TO YOU EVERY MORNING

CARRY A WATER BOTTLE FILLED WITH SUN. DRINK THE SUN

READ A BOOK. CRY OVER THE BOOK. TEAR OUT THE PAGES OF THE BOOK AND EAT THEM

GLITTERING CITY LIGHTS ARE A SIGN

DIG AND DIG AND DIG AND UPROOT SHAME

[doublism]

i can't wait to be 60 so i can tell my life story in the youtube comments section of my favorite songs

[furryprovocateur]

i think ultimately you do really have to kill that part of your brain that vividly imagines how you would redo parts of your life.

[hangsawoman]

just remembered that no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

[sizzlingcandyjellyfishhhhhh]

they need to invent somewhere where I belong

[orchidscurse]

a poem of mine got accepted into a magazine!!! yippie!!!

[aquacademic]

[greelin]

crazy how you can be hanging on by a thread for like four months. Or your entire life