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Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

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We will be feeding our grandchildren strawberries and raspberries we grew in our gardens, dragging them along to the farmers' markets for tomatoes and eggs and goats milk and pickles and pecans and salsa and sunflower seed butter and jars of honey, as they complain and drag their feet because Gramma always stands around talking to people for like an HOUR

and we will say "When I was YOUR age, fruits and vegetables came from a supermarket and they were bred to get shipped 1000 miles in a truck and sit on shelves for weeks, and they tasted so sour and watery it was like eating paper compared to these ones. It wasn't even legal in some places to grow your own food"

and they will roll their eyes like yeah yeah just because everything was miserable in the 20s doesn't mean I have to have a smile on my face standing in the hot sun while you listen to that one guy talk about his bees FOREVER

But they will go, because there might be baby goats.

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Since I made this post, dozens and dozens of people have left tags telling me that it was the first thing today that made them want to continue living, that it was the first thing that made them consider that they might be okay years in the future, that they might grow old, that it was the first and only post of its kind they'd ever seen—the first post that boldly predicts a future where we make it.

And many other people have been just spitting, foaming at the mouth fucking FURIOUS. How dare I have the audacity to imagine a future where things get better?

Don't I know how BAD things are? Am I not aware of the TERROR and DEVASTATION of climate change and fascism and biodiversity loss? How dare someone be so bold, so callous, as to imagine something other than misery and suicide. How dare someone suggest it will get better. How dare a person propose that there is a future where we will be okay, in the face of so much terror. Hasn't she seen the abyss opening its jaws before us?

Well? What do you think?

Do you think I've seen the abyss?

cuntyjugheadfromriverdale

the idea that there is hope for the future is the only way we have this kind of future.

there were kids who stayed inside because of the black plague and went on to help cure it.

there were women who sat at home and cleaned the house and dreamt up a world where they could vote and have jobs.

there were kids in the mines who thought up a life outside of it. there were children who hid in annexes and wrote a diary where they prayed for a future without a terrible man in control

there were slaves who wanted freedom so badly and had hope that it would get better

there were gay people who hid in the corners of clubs and fought back for a future where they could walk down the street together

do you know what all of that has in common? they had hope that things would get better and they made that change. they looked at the world in its cruel ways and fought back.

so now, there are kids and teenagers and young adults and new adults who dream of a world so beautiful and the only amazon their grandchildren know is the rainforest

and it is in everything we do that we find this hope. wishing on dandelions, counting the stars, making our own clothes out of crochet or knit or sewing it, watching the sunset, going to the farmer’s market, feeding the birds, planting seeds.

step by step, we dream up, like our ancestors before us, a beautiful world

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THE ONLY AMAZON OUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL KNOW IS THE RAINFOREST

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The only Amazon our grandchildren will know is the rainforest. @lesbiangingerjughead

Ink: Diamine Tranquility

Request by @bernoullis-quaver

sunkissedstitches

I have been anti lawn for so long. This year I bought a house and the front is filled with clover and dandelions and there is a flower bed with annuals and they are in full bloom now.

My mother in law pointed out a weed and I said oh okay and now it has beautiful white flowers on it and I am glad I let it grow.

My baby is 10 months old and he will grow up surrounded by flowers and bumblebees.

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Alejandra Pizarnik, from The Most Foreign Country

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell (August 1908)

ruhlare

from "i know you by heart"

1anonyymous1

I have a terrible habit of leaving things unsaid for the sake of peace

takethemonetandletsgogh

“what cannot be said will be wept”

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[ words by-Anne Dennish //Howling at the Moonby Darshana Suresh]

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Lora Mathis

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Ama Codjoe, from "The Bluest Nude" [ID'd]

wizard0rb

should i post the walmart comic

or should i simply wait

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If no one responds then I will have no choice

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one sec

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here it is. the surreal horror walmart comic i made in eighth(?) grade.

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8TH GRADE?!?!!?!?

keiachi-chan

terror????

Also there is one(1) living person in this thread wtf

wizard0rb

i’m op and i’m still alive! my url used to be real-cacti

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dialupmodern

Babe, you okay? you reblogged “and we were nice to each other” like 12 times again

naumin

i drew this comic more than 10 years ago :) couldnt even tell u who i was thinking of now cuz i hardly remember… cant believe it resonated with so many people!!!