hello and welcome! :)

i'm solstice, and i like writing and reading poetry! i'm particularly inspired by mysticism and magic, the human experience, the range of human emotion, metaphysics, actual physics, and just about everything that has and ever will exist in the universe <3

i am also an avid tarot reader and have been reading since 2020; i also love crocheting, baking, playing dungeons & dragons, my friends, blackberries, sleep token, love, and being human.

if you like what you see, i hope you stay! otherwise, i send you off with my best wishes and hope that you find yourself someplace that brings you closer to who you are— in music, in morning coffee, in early hours of twilight, or elsewhere <3

daily click for palestine before you go !

operation olive branch linktree, which also has their spreadsheet of families in gaza trying to evacuate into egypt and other mutual aid projects

# sfsolstice — my original poetry # oops typo! — typography edits from work i've read / am currently reading # solstice shares — bits of my life and ramblings # ♡ — others' work i love to pieces

@present-and-emerging— a poetry collection sideblog i run :)

hello friend !!

thank you so much for your kind wishes and for thinking of me <33

i've been doing alright ! just trying to sorta break out of the box of the image—or persona, i guess, would be better to say—that i've built on this blog, by taking some time away from here

still writing, though, i promise ! just on a different blog, under a different name, with a somewhat different style (but feels so much more like me); maybe you'll find me out there somewhere :>

i won't be sharing which blog, just because i'd like to build something much more foundationally secure for myself on there, if that makes any sense; plus, i quite like how quiet it is over there right now, so forgive me for gatekeeping, so to speak :'^)

i log back into this account every now and again, but i'm not sure yet what i'll do with this blog or its sideblogs, if anything. i've considered just making this one a place to put typography of work i've read / am reading, but there are a lot of associated emotions and memories that come back up each time i log back in. it just doesn't feel like me anymore, if that makes sense. you could call it shedding the past and starting new, i suppose !

so this might be my last post on here, but !!! like i said, this won't be the last you'll probably see of me—i'm still out here writing on tumblr—you just gotta find me :3c

i think it would be best to rip the bandaid off in any situation, but in this particular case, i just want you to know now that if you're expecting something consistent from me, you're very likely not going to get that. i promise you, it's not you, because, admittedly, i do this to everyone i know and have ever known (like i have SO many unread tiktoks and dms from friends)

i don't say this to put myself down or anything, it's just i want you to have a realistic idea of what interacting with me is really like, especially so now because, yeah, i'm definitely processing through a lot of stuff currently :')

honestly, knowing me, i don't think i can welcome in anything new. i'm kinda really reactive and not very grounded right now tbh lol and i don't want to be interacting with anyone i don't already know while i'm like this, so i think i very much need to be keeping to myself and close loved ones right now. i'm sorry :'''))

even without tarot, i can very confidently say, with certainty, that if you made those decisions with the fullness of your heart, out of honor and respect for yourself and others, with the intention of being open and the goal of expanding / learning, and if you think it'll make you happy, then you're on the right path.

big decisions are SO fucking scary; fucking props to you ! i of course don't know the specifics, but if you can look towards the future with optimism, then i think you made the right decision. even if it might be something that sucks in the short term, but you know you'll be happy in the long term (e.g., picking up a new skill, starting recovery, putting yourself first, etc etc), or even if, later down the line, something ends bitterly or doesn't end the way you wanted it to.

one thing leads to another; something bitter could later become sweet, and vice versa, but i guess what i wanna say is that, no matter the outcomes of your decisions, you'll be alright. you'll be on the path you'll need to be on, and to me, every path is a positive path, as long as it leads you back to yourself ! so i say, instead of wondering or worrying what the future'll be like (very hypocritical of me giving this advice i wanna admit, i've been wondering about the future too much lately), take some time to pause and look at where you are right now, take stock of who's in your life, what's in your life; what's in front of you that makes your heart full? identify something concrete. i'll do it if you do it (i've been doing it this whole time LMAO).

and then go tell them, if you're thinking of a person. or give them an extra treat, if they're a pet. or a place on your shelf, if it's a memory. or a rewatch, if it's a comfort show. and so on and so forth you get it lol

friend, whatever decisions you've made, i'm excited for you !! i hope everything goes in a way that lets you love yourself more (and more freely, if that's something you struggle with at all, but also, i hope that you're content, and happy, and seen, and heard, and and and !), and i'll always be here hoping the best for you <3 so mwah kisses your head go out there and have fun