my little brother got a girlfriend recently and the two of them have been making their discord icons matching anime couples, so my other brother, his twin, keeps changing his icon to a third wheel character to annoy them
Poetry is not a career — it is a state of being. You become poetry or are in a state of becoming with poetry. My chronological map of becoming would not be linear, rather it has been crisscrossed with arcs of events, poems, poets, arts, music, all bound and directed by history and memory.
Joy Harjo, from "The Craft of Writing: Joy Harjo on listening and writing with intention"
“They say that there are only three or four or five topics for literature, but maybe there’s only one: belonging. Perhaps all books can be read in function of the desire to belong, or the negation of that desire. To be part of or stop being part of a family, of a community, a country, of Chilean literature, a football team, a political party, a rock band, the fan club of a rock band, or at least a group of scouts. That’s what we write about when we’re given a free topic, and also when we think we are writing about love, death, travel, telegrams or suitcases with swivel wheels. That’s what we always talk about, seriously or in jest, in verse and in prose: belonging.”
— Alejandro Zambra, from ‘Free Topic’ (speech given at the Dept. of Communications and Literature in Diego Portales University, 2016), Not to Read (trans. Megan McDowell)
I hide myself within my flower,
That fading from your Vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me—
Almost a loneliness.
Emily Dickinson, I Hide Myself Within My Flower
I do not support all women because this should’ve been MEEEEE
Holding the laptop’s power button down because it’s crashed and there’s no other way to turn it off feels so unsettling. It makes me feel like I’m holding a cushion over its face while the life slowly ebbs out of it.
Came across the most charmingly delivered piece of advice on r/houseplants
The diagram:
The diagram is great but my favorite part is the quotes around "purchase"
I would like to share with you all some absolutely raw advice my mom gave me about my anxiety today
knuckle tattoo that says JANE EYRE
starting a collection