#maynads

[nedlittle]

The Torn-up Road // I Had a Dream About You  (Richard Siken)

[butbetheserpent]

I loved you all the time but the moments I knew you shone like diamonds and rubies and everything valuable were the quiet moments. the stillness of the morning, or in a gentle evening breeze, those were the times I caught myself falling slowly, softly, without ever noticing it. I thought love hit you like the sound of glass shattering, like a head on collision on an icy road in the middle of January, like the pop of a balloon disturbing the silence of a near empty room after a birthday party. I guess I was wrong. apparently love sweeps over you gently like the rising tide on the night of a full moon, like the sun slowly sinking past the horizon against a cotton candy skyline, like grass growing and morning dew sticking to your shoes before it can dry. I always thought love must be like summer rain: clear skies one minute, a downpour the next, lasting five seconds or all day, but ending just as quick as it began nevertheless. it turns out loving you is like the dawn of spring. slowly creeping in and replacing the cold winter loneliness from my aching bones, making the world more beautiful, from the colors to the weather, every moment a shining beacon of hope and new beginnings, washing away the emptiness from the times before. love is like the springtime, when the flowers bloom towards the sun and I bloom towards you.

you are sunbeams through stained glass and i’ll always find that beautiful || s.r.

[balmoras]

russell brand ;*

oh god

i mean objectively speaking, forgetting sarah marshall is the best one, but get him to the greek has such an embarrassing and special place in my heart? i shan’t defend it but i love aldous snow, the drug addict rockstar of my soul

so it’s probably a tie :’)

send me a director or an actor and i’ll tell you my favorite film from them

[brotticelli]

dear future & past me xx

dear future me:

i hope you’re in university? idk, mostly i hope you’re happy, and also dating a cute girl, and also maybe living somewhere nicer than england.

dear past me:

a piece of advice: don’t date the boys who always want to keep it a secret. also, i wish you had revised more, you piece of shit. 

[lighthousekeepings]

i second what anon said you are perfect tbh

thanks b <3

much love

[hawkeyefrommash]

frazzled high school senior aesthetic;

hair in a messy bun and pen smudges behind your ear. sweats you've had for five years and are full of holes but they're still so comfy. new socks made of something fluffy. you’ve had three cups of coffee before noon. you’ve got four projects due on the same day and you haven’t started any of them.

"in uni the profs don't care about you," they say. "it will get easier," they promise. you don't know what to believe. you don’t know where you’re going.

you tour your future uni when it’s raining and overcast. you get chocolate from the grocery store by the high school when the sun shines.

charging your smartphone in the hallway and sitting next to it eating from a $1.50 bag of chips from the vending machine. letting it die while you check twitter before the bus picks you up.

it’s three a.m. and your essay is due in six hours. it’s three a.m. and you’re in love with someone who hasn’t spoken to you in two and a half years. it’s three a.m. and you’re older than you’ve ever been and younger than you will be again and you wonder if you’ve wasted your youth being afraid for tomorrow.

[nickandros]

maynads replied to your post:voyage, lineage & yearbook

i love you? so much?

same????? you are so great????

[medeae]

minotaur, voyage x

sorry this took ages!

MINOTAUR: If you get writer’s block how do you deal with it?

i lie in bed and play with different phrases and structures until i’m happy with what i’ve written! i also go through my pretty tag, save tag, or lit tag for inspiration.

VOYAGE: What are your writing goals for this year?

i want to post at least two poems every week! one on wednesday and one on sunday if possible. i also want to get better at abstract poetry (is that what it’s called?) instead of my usual prose style.

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