Gray

“Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”

[linkinmoon]

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[selltohell]

[russiansappho]

Smiling Virginia Woolf

“...the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”

[bookishquotish]

"I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your undumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it should lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal."

Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

[russiansappho]

Dedicated to Virginia Woolf 🌊✨

𝘈 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘬𝘺,

𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘺𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴

𝘌𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘦,

𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘦

𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘬𝘺, 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘪𝘳

𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦

𝘌𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳 -

𝘝𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘢

𝘐𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮.

𝘙𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘱𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦,

𝘎𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴.

𝘐𝘧 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘦,

𝘕𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭.

𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘵, 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯.

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵,

𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘳𝘺.

𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵,

𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯: 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘦 -

𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

- Virginia Woolf  

[lightacademiaenthusiast]

dorian gray being a scorpio is the most on brand thing ever

[just-shower-thoughts]

A different version of you exists in the mind of everyone that has ever met you, and it’s very different than what you think about yourself.

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Meditation On The Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology Of Poetry, ‘Monologue of a Foreign Woman’ by Rosario Castellanos

[dustyheartmug]

thinking about the casual intimacy of showing someone you love an unfinished work of art, the underlying message saying, i trust you with my unpolished heart

[lastvalyrian]

me: hey, there’s a documentary about a topic I am already interested in! let’s watch it!

me watching: already knew that. already knew that. wrong. already knew that. true but misleading. already knew that. already knew that. leaves out the important part. already knew that

[ashstfu]

no god complex. only demon complex. i am going to make everything as terrible as i can on purpose

[thatscarletflycatcher]

We joke about the neovictorianism that wearing masks brings about, but yesterday one of my students pulled his mask down to drink some water, and the girl sitting beside him exclaimed: "I have never seen your mouth before!" and he blushed and covered his mouth with his hand.

It was just... iconic.

[hungryfictions]

mary maclane, the story of mary maclane / pierre bonnard - jeune femme écrivant, 1908 / louise fitzhugh, harriet the spy / phil grey - two photos from will self’s writing room: a 360 degree view in 71 photos, 2007 / tom astor - susie boyt’s notebooks, 2018 / stephen king, on writing / jill krementz - stephen king at his home office with his corgi marlowe, 1995 / joan didion - “on keeping a notebook” / wayne miller - author and poet maya angelou, 1974 / photo of sylvia plath from the everett collection / anne carson in a 2016 interview with NPR / octavia butler’s motivational notes to self / jim carroll, the basketball diaries / benjamin garcia - writing painting, 2012 / wayne pascal - writer’s block, 2019 / louisa may alcott, little women / little women (2019) / mary shelley (2017) / dickinson (2019) / anne lamott, bird by bird

on writing

[chemischafval]

People that read books are hot and deserve a forehead kiss. It’s in the law. 

[hellwatermelon]

「Moonlit Vampire Ⅱ」 2021年

「Strigoica-Spring Night」 2021年

山本タカト  / Takato Yamamoto

[coltre]

me: *gets hit by a car* sorry