Indianapolis

Anatomy of an angel. Sonja, 27. Albania

[whimsykey]

IF THE ROUTINE NO LONGER SERVES, YOU MUST ALTER THE PATTERN, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?? YOUR LIFE STARTS WITH YOU

[slowtides]

Frank O'Hara, from "Mayakovsky"

[geryone]

Smoking the Bible, Chris Abani

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When Georges Bataille said, "no greater desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound,"

And When Oscar Wilde said, "A burnt child loves the fire," and

And When Margaret Atwood said, "you long to be bandaged before you have been cut."

[comeinizia]

121. La bella estate

[araekniarchive]

and history repeats, and history repeats, and history repeats—

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems; ‘Base Details’

Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

Arthur Miller, All My Sons

Herbert Hoover, to the 23rd Republican National Convention in June 1944

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

Jamala, 1944

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

George S. McGovern

Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est

[secretsofscythes]

on homesickness

Clive Smith, Artist / Ian Cumberland, Distance I / Miriam Adeney, Kingdom Without Borders / Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice (1986) / Pascal Mercier, Train to Lisbon / Malcom Liepke, Repose / Margaret Randall, So Many Rooms Has A House But One Roof / Dir. Damien Chazelle, Whiplash (2014)

[excerptum]

"I think you carry around a sadness from another life," she said. "From centuries ago."

Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

[hwhwgwhnwnwbwbwg-deactivated202]

Take me to an art gallery

[unsubconscious]

Peter Brown, ‘Morning Sun in the Studio’

[previouslyafangirl]

"The memories of spirits and gods may be hazy, but not the memories of books. Stories are eternal."

- Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

[tombsaint]

on loneliness with anis mojgani, in the pockets of small gods / ocean vuong, someday i'll love ocean vuong / sophocles, trans. anne carson, antigonick / maggie nelson, bluets

[mostlyiwant-tobekind]

I lost every friendship I ever had and it still hurts.

1. Finneas O’Connell / 2. Ocean Vuong / 3. adampvrrish / 4. Otessa Moshfegh / 5. Fairycosmos / 6. Richard Siken / 7. frenchtoastlesbian

[mango-season]

Trista Mateer, "Baggage", from Honeybee

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— Ocean Vuong, from “Thanksgiving 2006.”

[ragesingoddess]

1. Us Against You by Fredrick Backmam| 2. It Chapter 2 (2019)| 3. Stand by me (1986)| 4. tumblr text post| 5. The Kids From Yesterday by My Chemical Romance| 6. It by Stephen King| 7. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara| 8. Oscar Wilde 9. Thanksgiving 2006 by Ocean Vuong

[archiveofyearning]

LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS

Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[shisasan]

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke