SELF-PORTRAIT AT 24

Ana Carrizo, What Was Missing

Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Brenna Twohy, ‘ON SEEING PHOTOS OF HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND ON FACEBOOK’, from Swallowtail

Bruce Coville, Jennifer Murdley’s Toad

The Antlers, Bear

When Harry Met Sally (1989) dir. Rob Reiner

Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

Raven Leilani, Luster

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Elle Emerson, Regarding the Röttgen Pietà

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh

Dominique Christina, Stargazer

Lia Kimura, Unknown (2018)

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Florence + The Machine, South London Forever

Wislawa Szymborska, Moment of Silence

Barbara Ras, ‘You Can’t Have It All’ from Bite Every Sorrow

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wigilda

unwastelandunbaby

the past isn’t behind you it coils inside your body that’s why some years you feel closer and more nostalgic for certain ages than others just fyi

unwastelandunbaby

for visual learners

#rb #words #art #theme: memory #theme: age #theme: growing up #@wastelandbebe

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it’s my party (i’ll cry if i want to)

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Lorde, Secrets From a Girl (Who’s Seen It All)

Liana Finck, for The New Yorker

Crywank, Memento Mori

Mary Oliver, Of Power and Time

Raleigh Ritchie, Big & Scared

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Jesse Ball, How to Set a Fire and Why

Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

Lucille Clifton, I Am Running Into A New Year

Dean Lewis, Waves

Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

Chaz Hutton (x)

30/90, from Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021)

Nikki Giovanni, Adulthood II

Crystal Caves, Suffocation

Alec Benjamin, Older (Lyric Video)

@angelcommunist (x)

Sandra Cisneros, Eleven

Lorde, Ribs

The Killers, All These Things That I’ve Done

Sue Zhao (x)

Li-Young Lee, A Hymn to Childhood

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exitwound

andshecanproveitwasolidrighthook

Is any body else a Little bit nauseououauauauooos

#mary... MARY......#rb #words #mary oliver #theme: parents #theme: fathers #theme: age #theme: dysfunction

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theyearofhibernation

muscosus

the goldfinch, donna tartt // illustration by instachaaz (ig) // selected poems by frank o’hara // the witcher, netfilx // suffocation, crystal castles c. 2010 // the diaries of franz kafka // diary, virginia woolf

#rb #webs #theme: time #theme: age #theme: absence #donna tartt #@instachaaz #frank o'hara #the witcher #crystal castles #franz kafka #virginia woolf

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prettygirlseat

roseoilz

probably my favorite thing ever; the 4 stages of a woman’s life. from The Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)

#rb #art #andrei tarkovsky #theme: age #theme: womanhood #theme: time #!!!!!#i wanna learn to do a bun like in the top right #that would fix me i think

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octobersunkiss

juliens-bakery

Lucille Clifton, 'i am running into a new year'

#rb #words #lucille clifton #theme: time #theme: letting go #theme: age #theme: growing up #theme: memory #theme: left behind

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maybuds

from At Eighty-three She Lives Alone by Ruth Stone

#rb #words #ruth stone #theme: age #theme: nature #theme: beauty #theme: loneliness #theme: want

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becomingicarus

i saw her standing there - the beatles // 1980s horror film - wallows // seventeen - heathers the musical // seventeen - sharon van etten // 17 - avril lavigne // seventeen - alessia cara // at seventeen - janis ian // seventeen - marina and the diamonds // sheer heart attack - queen // edge of seventeen - stevie nicks