[thenightlymirror]

James Baldwin.

[betokeneth]

Michael Cunningham, on Annie Proulx's “Brokeback Mountain”, The New Yorker, 24 February 2025

[brother-father]

supersonic (2016) | sentimental value (2025)

[wizardarchetypes]

really strange how you can be almost at peace with something that happened to you but it will continue to be a defining moment of your life for the rest of your life. you wont think about it much anymore but in a conversation about a film someone will mention the year it was released and you’ll think to yourself, “that was before it happened” and you’ll see an old photo and think how strange it is to have existed before it happened and somehow it’s like living a life in two acts

[ef-1]

Drivers leaving home at a young age to pursue karting then ultimately F1 and some of them (esp non-European drivers) don't get to travel with parents or guardians- it's an accepted fact of motorsport. But then I remember that interview where Daniel said he was 17 and a million miles away from home and all he had was a copy of The Castle, an Australian movie, and he'd watch it incessantly beacuse he was afraid of losing his accent and there was no one around to talk to... reminds me of that one James Agee quote about clinging to home because in the absence of home the vastness of the world might mean we don't exist at all

[free-my-mindd]

-Anaïs Nin, 1939

[weltonboys]

dead poets society (1989) / looking for alaska - john green

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[ourplague]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[transchakotay]

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

- Simone Weil

[gaslightgirlsummer]

jannik truly inspirational to me in the sense that he isn't ashamed of publicly trying and failing in order to improve himself. he could have saved all of those dropshot trials for practice courts, but he knew that to truly master them he needed to practice them in real life. so he took risks, ridicule from a lot of fans and some commentators and probably a lot of unpleasant audience reactions, and lost points, but in the end he came out of it with a new weapon in his arsenal. he decided to learn a new language, and as soon as he was communicative he made active choices to speak that language as much as he can to get better and gain confidence in it, even though he's making mistakes and was clearly nervous about it. yet he still did it.

it's so admirable to me. he's the best example that truly shows that trying in spite of failure is not a reason for embarrassment, it's a sign that you are striving for improvement

[valsmotive]

Sinner later said of his decision, "I wanted to throw myself into the fire." He sought change, no matter the discomfort.

from Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis by Giri Nathan

[dogrotpdf]

that one nat geo documentary about the lioness who lost her cub and then, thru her grief, adopted a gazelle but she didn’t know how to care for them and she kept trying to feed them meat. there’s something there but i can’t reach it.

[letterful]

[hell-vetica]

“Sometimes people need someone to believe in them. And then they can do amazing things.”

[slashermary]

‘you’ve just met yourself. i’ve known you for years’ is still the most romantic thing i’ve ever heard and they let my favorite little cornfed closetcase say it on live television to another man. incredible.

[slashermary]

supernatural. this is from the cw’s supernatural. like all great modern romance, this is about destiel. please don’t disrespect our troops

[valtsv]

thinking about how the word "haunt" can act as a synonym for both "pursuit" and "dwelling"

[valtsv]

be careful what you allow to make a home in you

[tofixtheshadows]

Stephen King, IT, page 147:

[usernyoom]

Max Verstappen, Qatar 2025, and his championship charge; set to The Old Religion by Florence + The Machine. [Quote 1: Max to media after qualifying | Quote 2: Max to media after winning the race | Quote 3: Alex Kalinauckas for the New York Times]

[farewell-to-lorien]

Art by Winsor Kinkade, poem by Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul.

[days-of-reading]

Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts