𝐸𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒾𝒶

✶ (𝖓.) 𝖆𝖓 𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖎𝖗𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖗𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖋𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖉𝖔𝖒 ✶

[lunamonchtuna]

— William Shakespeare, Beatrice to Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (Act IV, Scene i) (via lunamonchtuna)

[sab3rtooth]

[paper-wounds]

[mournfulroses]

Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "Moonlight," featured in What Do We Know: Poems & Prose Poems

[bloombound]

[nixscriptum]

[nixscriptum]

[nixscriptum]

[fictionwriterr]

They Say

They say humans aren’t born bad.

like that should comfort me.

like it means something

when I walk through a world

stitched together

by things we chose anyway.

They say we aren’t born good either

and that feels closer to the truth.

blank hands,

empty as open doors,

waiting to be filled

with whatever we’re handed

or whatever we take.

And what we take

what we make

what we leave behind

it’s everywhere.

I see it in the quiet cruelty

people pretend not to notice,

in the systems built so carefully

they look like accidents,

in the way harm becomes routine,

like background noise

no one bothers to turn off.

I am surrounded by it.

not monsters, not shadows,

not something easy to name and fight

people.

people who wake up,

get dressed,

go to work,

and build small pieces of something broken

over and over again.

And maybe that’s what unsettles me most

evil doesn’t always roar.

sometimes it hums.

sometimes it smiles,

shakes your hand,

and calls itself normal.

They say we aren’t born bad.

but we learn quickly.

and we get very, very good at it.

[hymnfell]

[mournfulroses]

J. M. Grosvalet, from her book titled "Sugar Spells," originally published in 2025

[thehopefulquotes]

“I’m not into convincing people I’m worthy. I’m into people who’ll convince me on my worst days that I’m still worth the world.”

— Reyna Biddy

[thoughtkick]

“To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.”

— Unknown

[gothredy]

[decomposedmaw]

By the Pond

[inkpressedpetals]

[mmaisonnnn]