"i must have flowers, always and always"

[wanderlustfuldays]

Gipsoteca Bartolini, Galleria dell'Accademia Florence, Italy

[mournfulroses]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from "The Complete Novels of Mary Shelly,"

[junglejim4322]

Also re: the fact it’s normal to have a period of time where you have no friends: sometimes this means no “real” friends aka still have people you know from work, school, family, neighbors, acquaintances, etc etc you interact with but are not close with and couldn’t go to for anything on any deeper level. But sometimes it actually does mean no friends. No social interaction, nobody to call, no other option, don’t talk to anyone for days, don’t know who would find out if you died. The thing is there really is coming back from both of those situations ofc it takes a good deal of work and can feel like pulling teeth to put yourself out there but god it pays off. You can always start over from scratch, and it’s true most people are just as lonely as you are

[spcecowboyyy]

do you know the meaning of your name?

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Voting ended onSep 21, 2025

[redstonedust]

the worst part about grief is that it feels like the world should be horrendously earth shatteringly changed, and to an extent it IS but its also the same. to everyone else it's just another tuesday. the world moves on. you have to go grocery shopping.

[gael-garcia]

Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams

[fluentisonus]

musée des beaux arts, w.h. auden

[aaloosshitposting]

"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"

But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.

It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?

[anotherbookinthelibrary]

An Orpheus who didn't turn around is an Orpheus who never walked down in the first place

[metamorphesque]

Evening reverie (nocturnal slumber), Alphonse Maria Mucha

[briargeese]

A hibiscus flower under ultraviolet light, shining for the polinators.

[elizabethsinclair]

there is a love in which i will always know you, just incase you forget.

love elizabeth s.

[annori]

Fernando Pessoa from The Book of Disquiet (1982)

[metamorphesque]

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

[zanabism-deactivated20200529]

I hope you guys like…eventually live the life you want to live and I hope nothing haunts you for too long and I hope you’re all kind to yourselves

[metamorphesque]

permit me voyage, love, into your hands (James Agee) Pride & Prejudice (dir. Joe Wright) Anna Karenina (dir. Joe Wright) Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho) In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)

[metamorphesque]

Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler in Onegin (1999)

[metamorphesque]

musings on touch the hand has twenty-seven bones, natalie diaz haiku #11, tathev simonyan the touch, anne sexton isn’t the air also a body, moving?, natalie diaz ulysses, james joyce you are jeff, richard siken lady, i will touch you with my mind, e. e. cummings to your hands…, vahan teryan (translated by tathev simonyan) state of emergency, joy sullivan i was reading a scientific article, margaret atwood one of those kisses, viggo mortensen

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

[mahoganyamore]

and all i loved, i loved alone