The world

is a beautiful place & I am no longer afraid to die.

[sunsbleeding]

[capacity2]

U want something and then when u get it it’s like omg………… I’m scared

[incorrectvillanevequotes]

[verilybitchie]

Highlighting some of the literature on bisexuality (that I’m aware of) from the 70s-90s. The current tumblr discourse tends to disregard almost anything said by bisexual activists and academics, even from after the turn of the century, and there’s a pervasive myth that 20th century bisexuals were kind of…basic bi-tches, if you will. Consider reading a few books, magazines, maybe even newsletters, so you can make a fairer judgement.

[lifeinpoetry]

“I’ve come to love your silences. I surrender myself like a ransacked city. You take the nails but leave the hammer.”

— Hala Alyan, from “Wife in Reverse” published in The Believer

[greelin]

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

[greelin]

what the FUCK man.

[pefkaes]

4.05.2024 // an overview of my april'24.

I've been trying to keep a track of how I spend my days. It is hard to not be harsh on myself when I see how many 'break' days I took, but then I have to remind myself that I took those days off for a reason – be it to travel, to explore the city, to do chores or simply because I knew that I wouldn't be productive that day. I started off with a simple tracker but I hope to gradually build on it and adapt it in an useful manner.

[lovertm]

body paintings by Karen Turner

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

[soracities]

Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi) [ID'd]

on context: "[set during] the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut [...] Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)?" (source)

[freshmoviequotes]

Miller's Girl (2024)

[enii]

Today, I did everything for myself💕

[strykerlancer-deactivated202405]

Louise Glück, from “Marathon.”

[Text ID: Then you kissed me—I felt hot wax on my forehead. I wanted it to leave a mark: that's how I knew I loved you. Because I wanted to be burned, stamped, to have something in the end.]

[kvothes]

marie howe, in an interview with krista tippett of on being

[kvothes]

from marie howe’s 2017 collection of poetry, magdalene

[primulaceas]

Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Joseph and Marie Ginoux. January 1890. The Illustrated Provence Letters of van Gogh, selected and edited by Martin Bailey

[weltenwellen]

Carl Phillips, from “Civilization”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

[prokopetz]

If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!

[prokopetz]

Reading as a kid: "I can tell that this is supposed to be an emotionally moving ending, but I genuinely cannot remember who two-thirds of these characters are."

Reading as an adult: *reads a paragraph* *pauses* *reads the same paragraph again* *flips back and re-reads the preceding page to make sure you didn't misunderstand something* *stares into space for ten minutes as the Implications sink in*

[fozmeadows]

added to this: most of us have a whole lot more going on in our lives as adults than we did as kids, in the sense of having a constant background awareness of Tasks That Need To Be Done, which impacts your ability to immerse yourself in a book. so whereas your middle school self could effortlessly devote their whole brain to reading, your adult brain is equivalent to an overtaxed CPU attempting to juggle thirty open tabs across two browsers, an excel spreadsheet, bloatware, security popups, the trial version of adobe, and a song that won't stop playing because itunes froze