Pandora's Box

16 | Barely Human

[evilkitten3]

resident evil? no. landlord evil.

[bloomingserenade]

is anyone else just kinda, exhausted

[c3rvida3]

Doctor said I only have to do four hours of therapy a week instead of seven. I am the pina colada of mental health.

[c3rvida3]

I meant to say "pinnacle", not "pina colada". The telephone is a cruel mistress. I am so healthy, still.

[ncoley]

Everyone shut up and look at Lala.

[plain-lo-deactivated20221231]

we're all just sluts with mental illnesses and tummy problems

[a-hoe-for-dark-academia]

*accidentally uses a complicated word* *someone asks what it means* *uses an even more complicated word to define it* *doesn’t know how to simplify* *panics because doesn’t want to seem pretentious*

[ritikajyala]

My 13 year old cousin came back from a date with her boyfriend and said, "I can't wait to grow up and spend sunday afternoons with him." At first, I wanted to laugh (after all they're just 13), but I remember being 13 and having the world in my hands. I remember getting excited to talk to someone about my dreams and wishes, and how happy these daydreams and fantasies made me. There's this innocence you can only have at 13 and the world rises and falls and crashes and burns every year... until you do not think about quiet sunday afternoons.

So I asked her about the date and heard her giggle about bubblegum flavored ice cream, and how much she loves this little life. I think she makes me love it too.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

[awkward-sultana]

@the2headedcalf / On Love, Alain de Botton /  @tilthat / Céline Sciamma / Twitter: Nightshiftmp3 / Twitter: Thepartypope / Portrait of a Lady on Fire / The Clean House, Sarah Ruhl / The History of the Band-Aid / weird-facts.org / @roses–and–rue

[robloxpresident]

Worst moment of my life was when I poured the sprite out of the plastic bottle. It’s not… green? NO…

[abandoned-bog]

The green is in the taste

[ritikajyala]

He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

[hiirraethh]

"So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence."

~R. Arnold

[dark-romantics]

someone please turn me into a poem or a painting, I’m tired of being human

[allerliefste-archive-deactivate]

when you see someone holding a flower bouquet in public it is like poetry is happening

[tragedyfetishist]

Me when I purposefully consume media that will damage my mental health:

[reverie-quotes]

Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?

— Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

[angelphilic]

love calling men pretty. ur not 'handsome' ur the prettiest little princess i ever did see

[thiisduudee]

I want to be called pretty.

[girlballs-archive]

okay time to sit in the dark like a creature or else my brain will explode