HOPE SURVIVES.

forgesahead's sideblog for musings and aesthetics.

[deviika]

—Chris Mc Geown

[elizabethanism]

“I’m not telling you to make the world better I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it."

Joan Didion

[memesomething]

‘i love you’ not in the sense ‘i would take every burden you’ve ever carried and make it my own’ but in the sense ‘i’d like to share the weight of at least some of them, if that’s okay’

[michellekpoems]

“My veins are filled with stories of survival.”

— Michelle K., What Keeps Me Up At Night #147.

[beefandcorn]

are you worried

About what? But yeah

[ashstfu]

moodboard

[jerseyclown]

@itnerlude

[theamazingbard]

love the "oh. oh." moment in fics as much as the next person but can i also advocate for "stay?" reaching out to grasp for their wrist. the surprise, the anticipation, the acceptance... a confession disguised as a request.

so fucking good

[mommyminotaur]

[Seducing You] I made pasta.

[juspect-deactivated20231206]

i wanna talk about it but i really dont wanna talk about it

[kafk-a]

Alice Notley, "The Poetry of Everyday Life" (1988)

[luthienne]

“My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

— William Ernest Henley, from “Invictus” (via soracities)

[genderenvy]

the song of achilles, madeline miller / strangers - the kinks / margaret atwood, from power politics: poems / mary oliver, from west wind

[luthienne]

“I have learned to be brave.”

— Anne Carson, from Glass, Irony, and God

[megairea]

“One day I said to myself — deep down inside my soul I said — so very soft that even God himself could barely hear — One day I said to myself that I was determined to get my share of happiness.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Death of Tintagiles (tr. by David Willinger and Daniel Gerould), 1894

[killingiiit]

concept: we grow together continually, find strength in each other, and push each other to be the best version of ourselves.

[wedarkacademia]

“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.” ― Nikki Giovanni

[wedarkacademia]

All my grief says the same thing— this isn't how it's supposed to be. And the world laughs, holds my hope by my throat, says: but this is how it is.

Fortesa Latifi, The Truth About Grief