Wolfy - Captain

You're the sunflower, I think your love would be too much.

[soracities]

Anne Sexton ("The Truth the Dead Know") Charlotte Eriksson (Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself)

[luthienne]

Anne de Marcken, from It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over [ID'd]

[dwellsinparadise]

Pretend, for example, that you were born in Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map for you; pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with a man or a woman who lives in Hong Kong; and that you fall in love. Hong Kong will immediately cease to be a name and become the center of your life. And you may never know how many people live in Hong Kong. But you will know that one man or one woman lives there without whom you cannot live. And this is how our lives are changed, and this is how we are redeemed.

What a journey this life is! Dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earth quake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

—James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket

[remanence-of-love]

[sjowgren-deactivated20240728]

some of my favorite tiny love stories

[sjowgren-deactivated20240728]

update:

(from nyt’s modern love column)

[everythingfox]

Hungry red panda

[silicxnn]

During a lecture on epic poetry like the Mahābhārata and Iliad in my first year of college, my professor said, “When the whole world dies, even when brick and mortar is destroyed, memory survives. It survives and lives on in generations to come. And literature carries that memory. All your geography, your economics, your psychology, they’re all based on the memory of man, passed down generations after generations. These epic poems and literature we are studying right now is to remind us that we too will be memories one day. And therefore, let us be good memories” and I think a piece of this lecture will live on in me wherever I go.

[caats]

[starfallblog-deactivated2024082]

❤😻

[jamborae]

“A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”

[metamorphesque]

  ― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

[text ID: To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.]

[avarittias-deactivated20230908]

Tell you that I'm sorry, tell me what I gotta do No, I can't let go, it's chemical

POST MALONE in CHEMICAL

[aestheticallypleasingurmom]

are cute dates and rough sex too much to ask for

[stlowens]

Mary Oliver, from “Lead.” [ID in alt text]

[ruhlare]

[tangerinesofmint]

[text id:

"let me be gentle with you," he said, "allow me to feel your soul."

end id.]

[rockandrollchick29]

[yesmadamepresident]

Fanfic writers really said "in any universe, in any scenario, despite any obstacle, these people would love each other" and I think that's very cool of us