3.24.23

𝔦𝔪𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔶: 𝔞 𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶 —𝔡𝔞𝔫𝔞 𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔷

— This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

[text ID: At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.]

What’s the difference between a secret

and a lie, that we both happened to share?

“Millers on their way to collect ice”, 1890s, Sweden.

“Here is what the sea smells like. It is more texture than scent, because the sea is primarily made of two substances that have no smell of their own: water and salt. Salt has no smell, but makes the air sting, and so all of the other smells of the sea are layered upon the pang of salt. Water has no smell but instead a comfort. We feel moisture as life and so the smells of the ocean are layered upon the contentment of the water. Salt is treble and water is bass. I don’t know how I know this is true, but I know it is true. The sea smells like old wood and wet leaves. Like cold mud and warm stone. Like every creature who has ever lived in it, a churning graveyard and nursery. Like winds from the inland carrying the hot circulation of life and winds from the ocean carrying the distant froth of waves against ships and islands. Like gray, only more so. Like blue, only less so.”

— The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

the bacchae of euripides - a communion rite (the bacchae in translation pt. 5/?)

wole soyinka, 1973

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A night at the Opéra (by Dan Sanderson).

Roger Karlsson

Poets are the painters of human experience, capturing the colors of their heart in verse.

~agelesslibrary

Boletus pinophilus Pilát & Dermek, 1973 - Белый гриб сосновый  

sometimes self-care is consuming a piece of media for the 174th time

Grass ♡

x - x / x - x

A British seaplane pilot sends an urgent message via pigeon. WWI era, 1914-18.

- Sylvia Plath, from the 'Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath'