lloyd

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[maxdibert]

I really like Lois Lane because she's so me like loving a guy who's basically the biggest cinnamon roll in history, too pure for this world, and at the same time getting totally stressed out because he's the biggest cinnamon roll in history, too pure for this world. Like, all a girl wants is basically a good guy, but at the same time not so good that you have to worry about him 24/7 in case someone tries to rob him and he still offers the thief a cup of coffee? Thanks. So relatable. I feel her, too bad.

[masteroftheblankstare]

Been thinking about how the new Superman movie did a really good job of giving Clark interests beyond “Truth, Justice, and a Better Tomorrow.” He likes pop punk rock. His favorite meal is breakfast for dinner. Clark does a little dance when he gets the front cover byline. He likes to doom-scroll. Unclear if he’s a dog guy. His girlfriend makes him hot cocoa when he’s sad. So often Superman in film has zero personality beyond tortured alien that must guide humanity. Giving him these small details made the character feel so much more real. He really is just a guy doing his best.

[streetobservatorium]

"You tried to change didn't you?

closed your mouth more

tried to be softer

prettier

less volatile, less awake

but even when sleeping you could feel

him travelling away in his dreams

so what did you want to do, love

split his head open?

you can't make homes out of human beings

someone should have already told you that

and if he wants to leave

then let him leave

you are terrifying

and strange and beautiful

something not everyone knows how to love"

- Warsan Shire

[streetobservatorium]

"You remember the day your core, your pigeon heart got lost in the wind because that was a message it did not know how or where to carry and one by one the boys have fallen as silently as the birds do."

-Edwin Bodney

[streetobservatorium]

"Oppression -overwhelming control- is necrophilic; it is nourished by love of death, not life."

- Paulo Freire

[streetobservatorium]

"I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine."

-André Leon Talley

[streetobservatorium]

"Write the tale that scares you, that makes you feel uncertain, that isn't comfortable. I dare you."

-Michaela Coel

[streetobservatorium]

"Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and poetic imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be."

-Albert Camus

[streetobservatorium]

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."

[streetobservatorium]

"For love is the necessary foundation enabling us to survive the wars, the hardships, the sickness, and the dying with our spirits intact. It is love that allows us to survive whole."

-bell hooks

[streetobservatorium]

"To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending."

-bell hooks

[streetobservatorium]

"They asked "do you love her to death?"

I said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me to life."

-Mahmoud Darwish

[streetobservatorium]

The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych, oil on wood by Hiëronymus Bosch, c 1590-1500

[streetobservatorium]

"They asked "do you love her to death?" I said "speak her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life"

-Mahmoud Darwish

[streetobservatorium]

"And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?

I did.

And what did you want?

To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth."

-Raymond Carver

[streetobservatorium]

"Come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me, and has failed."

-Lucille Clifton

[streetobservatorium]

"When the pain gets too heavy, make sure you spit it out. You must never chew. You must NEVER swallow."

-Wanawana