dear diary,

i don't know what's going on but something's up

[firstfullmoon]

Leila Chatti, “I Too Was Worthy,” in Wildness Before Something Sublime

[loveridden1999]

can we get 36 hours a day? not for any productive purposes i just want to finish my to watch & to read list in this lifetime . also probably get enough sleep

[az0lla]

[fellshish]

a lot of writing is sort of watching the film in your head like oh sorry can’t write the chapter yet i have to repeat hallucinate the dialogue first

[deutsche-bahn]

Ah, ok cool, endlich kann ich die Ersparnisse meiner Eltern auf die genaue Verspätung des ICE0815 verwetten. Man, I love this timeline

[officialhamburg]

Diese timeline mag zwar schlimm sein, aber immerhin ist sie verdammt lustig

[heartssarrow]

-Han Kang - The Vegetarian

[likeahauntingmelody]

before sunrise (1995)

[mentaikoprawn]

i’m not even sad i’m just full of unsaid things and memories i didn’t ask for

[smallestchurch]

SHIVERS — I AM LA REVACHOLIÈRE. I AM THE CITY.

*AGENTES IN REBUS*, WHEN YOU WEAR YOUR COAT YOU WEAR MY SOUL. YOU MOVE THROUGH MY STREETS FREELY IN MOTOR CARRIAGES AND ON FOOT. YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE HIDDEN PLACES.

I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

[flowerytale]

Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song

[vitamin-death]

take your hand and walk away

[so-many-ocs]

immediately after an interaction: i have GOT to get more normal oh god i need to get more normal immediately i have to get more normal or they're going to hunt me down they're going to hunt me down and flay me for sport

during an interaction: and why not put a little spin on it? why not add some conversational zest?

[temilyrights]

Aimee Lou Wood in Film Club (2025)

[exhaled-spirals]

« Tenderness is the art of personifying, of sharing feelings, and thus endlessly discovering similarities. Creating stories means constantly bringing things to life, giving an existence to all the tiny pieces of the world that are represented by human experiences […]. Tenderness personalizes everything to which it relates, making it possible to give it a voice, to give it the space and the time to come into existence, and to be expressed. It is thanks to tenderness that the teapot starts to talk.

Tenderness is the most modest form of love. […] It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our “self”. Tenderness is spontaneous and disinterested; it goes far beyond empathetic fellow feeling. Instead it is the conscious, though perhaps slightly melancholy, common sharing of fate. Tenderness is deep emotional concern about another being, its fragility, its unique nature, and its lack of immunity to suffering and the effects of time. Tenderness perceives the bonds that connect us, the similarities and sameness between us. It is a way of looking that shows the world as being alive, living, interconnected, cooperating with, and codependent on itself.

Literature is built on tenderness […]. »

— Olga Tokarczuk in her Nobel speech, December 2019

[thekidsarentalright]

when a songs lyrics use repetition to signify growing desperation and emotion that additional words wouldnt be able to convey

[weltenwellen]

Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

[spirit-whump]

Hear me out...... what if.... a character got hurt... and another character.... comforted them afterwards.....