—on childhood

deathless by catherynne m. valente // poison ivy by justin kurland // forest by justin kurland // seven by taylor swift // the florida project (2017) // on turning ten by billy collins // michael sowa // ? // vincent van gogh // don’t you wonder sometimes? by tracy k. smith

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “What I couldn’t explain via text”

Carolyn Marie Rodgers, from “On/My/Aging”

"wounded people love other wounded things" loving someone while you're both sick

Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers | Dante and Virgil in Hell, William Adolphe Bouguereau | Wishbone, Richard Siken | Dante and Virgil in Hell, William Adolphe Bouguereau | The Smaller Evil, Stephanie Kuehn

There must be a line where I begin and you end

Doris Dana, from a letter to Gabriela Mistral (@liriostigre) | If Beale Street Could Talk dir. Barry Jenkins (@timotaychalamet) | Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka | If Beale Street Could Talk dir. Barry Jenkins | This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone | Shadow, Raleigh Ritchie

iron hans by anne sexton / carmilla by joseph sheridan le fanu / me, her and the moon by jean farlow / xerxes’s tears by machado de assis / moonlight by ariana grande / the romance of duval rānī and khizr khān by amir khusrau / chang e by li shang-yin

wlw + blaming themselves/apologizing for their feelings

Rania Naim / Bad Buddy (2021-2022), Dir. Backaof Aof Noppharnach / Alicia Mountain, “Spit Shine with Real Spit” / Nevertheless (2021), Dir. Kim Ga-Ram

to miss (verb)

3. notice the loss or absence of.

to miss her (act)

an aching pain

[dictionary definitions//tokyo - RM//first love late spring - mitski// extract - rupi kaur//a dream (english translation) - rabidranath tagore//i carry your heart with me(i carry it in) - e.e. cummings]

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1. this is how you lose the time war, amal el-mohtar and max gladstone | 2. sergey galanter | 3. @/wolfsena | 4. loving, nini-tradwell collection | 5. @apoemaday | 6. holly warburton | 7. @/lilyrainpoetry | 8. joseph lorusso | 9. from a letter to vita sackville-west, virginia woolf | 10. benjamin (2018), dir. simon amstell

Shiv and Logan: Fathers Don’t Know What to Do With Their Daughters

“unpainted door”, poems 1962-2012, louise glück / “retired janitors of idaho”, 3x05, succession, (2021) / evansville, @filmnoirsbian / “shit show at the fuck factory”, 1x02, succession (2018) / “retired janitors of idaho”, 3x05, succession, (2021) / @apollomusing, link / “chiantishire”, 3x08, succession, (2021) / “origin story”, desireé dallagiacomo

i am what you made me: unlovable