yearning // d.c
if i dont go completely insane once per day i will go insane
when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”
when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”
TALES FROM EARTHSEA (2006) dir. Gorô Miyazaki
inevitability
Richard Siken // Anna Belle Kaufman, "Cold Solace" // Ada Limón, "Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds"
“Look, everyone - Weasley’s got himself a howler!” HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (2002)
when kafka said “all the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding” and when richard siken said “if you love me, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
anne carson
when anaïs nin said “i dont want worship. i want understanding”
When orwell said: “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
PETS PLSSSSSSS OF ALL TIMES NOT PERCALYPSO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 😭😭😭😭😭
i just really think that calypso was resting with percy's head on her chest and thinking "it all ends. everything else in the universe tends towards destruction yet here i am with my immortal body cursed to love again and again to a point where im not even sure if its me anymore" but she was still so soft with him and in response percy was just as soft with her and loved to to a point where he seriously started considering staying on Ogyia like sure maybe it was the magic of island the magic of her curse but does that make it any less material? does it not exists even in that limited dimesion of love and life and magic? and what if? maybe if they both really did feel these things for each other and maybe in a different life they would have been together thus making Calypso his biggest and most resounding what if?
favorite taylor songs ✧ speak now (2010)
Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Fady Joudah, from The Butterfly’s Burden; “We were missing a present”
Detail of ‘Lost in her dreams (In Träumen versunken)’ by Friedrich von Amerling (austrian, 1803 - 1887)
mama who bore me
gillian flynn “sharp objects” // “hereditary” (2018) // mythological beauty “big thief” // alex michaelides // @western-fence-lizard // “flowers in the attic” (2014) // https://www.bethanywebster.com/blog/mother-wound-healing/ // salma deera “letters from medea” // “the witch” (2015) // @filmnoirsbian // “PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM” kyung-sook shin, trans. chi-young kim
“The Lion in Winter”, James Goldman
it's that time again when i impulsively go back to tumblr and revamp my theme and maybe start writing fic
Eldest daughters be like: at this point I don’t know exactly who am I protecting and from what. I just feel a crushing sense of responsibility
movie soundtracks
Cruella (2021) Dir. Craig Gilliespie
I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze, and inspire their listeners.
— Hayao Miyazaki Studio Ghibli Movies (1988 — 2014) / [ insp. ]