[weltenwellen]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Heavy”

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jennifer S. Cheng, So We Must Meet Apart

[dk-thrive]

We lived in our bodies as in a constant state of emergency. We wore them out trying to either satisfy or exhaust them. We never succeeded in losing ourselves in sleep or pleasure. We were vigilant and wakeful. We always knew what time it was. We were forever trying to fill or close some gap.

— Rachel Cusk, Parade: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 18, 2024)

[stlowens]

Ocean Vuong, from  “Not Even.” [ID in alt text]

[girlfictions]

palestine is in a complete and utter blackout with israel launching hundreds of its heaviest airstrikes so far across gaza. this is a mass slaughter and we won't even know the extent of the casualties until it's over; israel have cut off telecommunications so they can commit their atrocities in the dark. there is a genocide happening right in front of our eyes and every person who has ever defended israel's "right to defend itself" has the blood of palestinians on their hands. we cannot ignore what is one of the most devastating massacres in human history.

[aworsening]

On Perspective

i. American Sports, Arctic Monkeys / ii. eXtreme Deep Field - NASA / iii. MAG57, Personal Space - The Magnus Archives / iv. Jasmine Ledesma @candiedspit / v. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - Carl Sagan / vi. Pale Blue Dot, Voyager I / vii. Spaceman - The Killers / viii. MAG106, A Matter of Perspective - The Magnus Archives / ix. Heliocentric, Keith S. Wilson

[weltenwellen]

bell hooks, All About Love

[weltenwellen]

Nooshin Ghanbari, from "transient"

[detailedart]

Cloudscape. Details: Wooded Hilly Landscape, 1785, London, by Abraham Pether.

[weltenwellen]

Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

[tunisian]

i wish my longing didnt consume me as much as it does

[tunisian]

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Maybe, Because Winter Is Late" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah) - via @luthienne

oh…

[metamorphesque]

Vera Pavlova, A Weight on My Back (tr. Steven Seymour)

[typewriter-worries]

where's that picture that ruined my life

[typewriter-worries]

found it

[heavensghost]

Oxygen, Mary Oliver

[archiveofyearning]

OPPOSITE SIDES OF WANTING TO BE GOOD 

Japanese Breakfast, Slide Tackle // Mary Oliver, Wild Geese // Patti Smith, Woolgathering // Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood // Saul Bellow, Herzog // Mitski, I Will // Florence Welch, Useless Magic // Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star // Mary Oliver, Dogfish // John Steinbeck, East of Eden. 

[sleepysera]

"In pain or sorrow or confusion, I went back to my magic book. Children are violent and cruel--and good--and I was all of these--and all of these were in the secret book. If I could not choose my way at the crossroads of love and loyalty, neither could Lancelot. I could understand the darkness of Mordred because he was in me too; and there was some Galahad in me, but perhaps not enough."

- John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

[soracities]

And I don’t want to shape life since existence already exists. It exists like some ground over which we all advance. Without a word of love. Without a word. But your pleasure understands mine. We are strong and we eat. Bread is love among strangers.

Clarice Lispector, from “The Sharing of Loaves”, Collected Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)