whatever happens, happens

jem, 24

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Straight Talk from Fox”, Red Bird

[radical-revolution]

[weltenwellen]

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

[heavensghost]

Words by Mary Oliver engraved in rock

[weltenwellen]

Alex Dimitrov, “Poem Written in a Cab”, Love and Other Poems

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, "DEPRESSION [VERB]", Lord of the Butterflies

[wovi]

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the ladies’ home journal, sept 1948

[radicalgraff]

"It doesn't have to be like this. We could have it so much better"

Calligraffiti in Chicago, Illinois

[powerburial]

what's the matter honey? you've hardly touched your fleeting experience of time on earth

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[nemfrog]

The student's room. The pink fairy book. 1897. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.

Internet Archive

[stinkykatie]

[weltenwellen]

Goatsong Leila Chatti

[heavensghost]

wood engraving today

[vaguedistress]

Elliott Smith and Jon Brion in recording studio (photo by Autumn de Wilde)

[irina-the-lonely-white-dove]

What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015, dir. Liz Garbus)