the youtube video ends and i am alone again. sad!
“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where do I put it down?”
— Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay” (via blurrymelancholy)
She couldn’t help what she was, and I couldn’t help what I was. We were stories that should never have met, or stories that existed only because we met. I still don’t know.
Siren Queen, Nghi Vo
the weekends exist so we can realize how many mundane things we haven't done in a long time because of work
i use the terms alas and i fear far too much i fear. but alas
now and then i think of when we were together
We met on Internet Archive in the comment section of a calculator user manual from 1973.
all that wanting, right? by Devin Kelly
Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.
one of my favorite things to do in limited perspective is write sentences about the things someone doesn't do. he doesn't open his eyes. he doesn't reach out. i LOVE sentences like that. if it's describing the narrator, it's a reflection of their desires, something they're holding themselves back from. there's a tension between urge and action. it makes you ask why they wanted or felt compelled to do that, and also why they ultimately didn't. and if it's describing someone else, it tells you about the narrator's expectations. how they perceive that other person or their relationship. what they thought the other person was going to do, or thought the other person should have done, but failed to. negative action sentences are everything.
reclusiveness . frigidity . asceticism
i hate being an adult because no matter how hard you try your house is never ever ever ever ever clean
“you should be at the club!” i should be in the bed. goodnight
they should invent 7 hours between 10pm and midnight