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Onsoyours Kitty Plush

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[text ID: Yesterday I advised you not to write me every day, I still hold the same opinion today and it would be very good for both of us, and so I repeat my advice today even more emphatically- only please, Milena, don't listen to me, and write me every day anyway, it can even be very brief, briefer than today's letters, just 2 lines, just one, just one word, but if I had to go without them I would suffer terribly.]

deviika

Franz Kafka // Sylvia Plath

uglyfruit

[ID: two photos of gardens with pink and white flowers. they have white block letters on top, saying "some things are very scary" and "i will ride the bus and be so so gentle to myself"]

franzkavkas

May 22nd, 1912

Franz Kafka, Diaries (1910-1923)

metamorphesque

Sunflowers, Vincent van Gogh, 1887

Van Gogh painted four still lifes of sunflowers in Paris in late summer 1887. There is an oil sketch for this picture (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) as well as another painting of two sunflowers also signed and dated 1887 (Kunstmuseum Bern), and a larger canvas showing four sunflower heads (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo).

sentimentalbeing2001

“all too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”

- bell hooks, (1952-2021)

metamorphesque

— Moshi Moshi, Banana Yoshimoto

[text ID: But life went on, even at times like this, and it was surprising how easy it was to keep going as though nothing had changed. I found it strange that I could walk down the street and appear normal, just like anyone else. That I could be in complete turmoil inside, and yet my reflection in a shop window could look the same as it ever had.]

slfcare

things to do when your day's been bad

lie down on the floor beside your bed

take a shower, use the good soap

listen to a song you liked ages ago

write your thoughts out in all caps

draw a head and then 'decorate' that head however you're feeling (I drew a man with a hole for a face. It worked)

listen to a song and try to focus on one (1) instrument at a time, baseline, drums, guitar, another guitar, repeating sound effect

wash your face

take a nap or go to bed early

call someone. tell them about your horrible day or let them talk about theirs or both

go through your camera roll (specifically the screenshots folder)

go through your saved instagram posts / tumblr likes

watch That One Really Great Live Performance of That Artist You Love, then read the comments of everyone having great taste like you do

cry a little about it

remember that this day will end and another will begin. it'll be all new, never experienced before, no bad things will have happened, and you'll be okay.

greenlightpaperbacks

"Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other."

- Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

mossyshadows

if you want a retelling of orpheus and eurydice in a modern setting but if orpheus ‘successfully’ brought her back.. catherynne m. valente recently wrote a short story l'espirit de l'escalier

would give this a miss if you would be uncomfortable reading about reanimated but still dead & decaying bodies & all that entails.. hope that also suggests to you what sort of the macabre route this story has taken.. anyway, different retellings are always a delight for me personally and valente is an excellent writer so if anyone reads this, would love to know what u think!