Walt Whitman, ‘Song of Myself’, Leaves of Grass

[Text ID: “Do I contradict myself? Very well then….I contradict myself; I am large….I contain multitudes.”]

Deborah Levy

when oscar wilde said "i'm tired of myself tonight, i should like to be someone else' and when sylvia plath said ''i wish i knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart" and when rilke said "this heavy humanness" .

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

-Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

a very angst-fuelled painting from yesterday

Alternate universe where I literally just to go to school forever (for free) so I can just learn about art and literature and history and languages for 100 years. No job skills. No credit requirements. No student loans. Just learning.

does anyone have a fun discord server to join? not necessarily focused on any one topic, though that would be cool too, and preferably not with lots of people younger than 15 since i’m 17 and that would be weird. i’d like somewhere open to different opinions and discourse, i get the importance of spaces free of that for people but i’m not looking for a safe space personally. just a fun place to make some friends with varying interests and opinions would be nice!

It doesn't have to be parasocial you know. I'm easy to talk to. But whatever.

— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them… awakening feelings that gather into great armies.

Mark Helprin

Many people, taking this into account, have been at great pains to prove (1) that Orlando had always been a woman, (2) that Orlando is at this moment a man. Let biologists and psychologists determine. It is enough for us to state the simple fact; Orlando was a man till the age of thirty; when he became a woman and has remained so ever since.

Orlando, Virginia Woolf

i finished orlando today and i’m so in love. i feel like my experience with gender has been written down and the fact that this was published in 1928 is even more amazing because even 93 years ago people were experiencing gender in the way that i do and having the same feelings about gender that i do. 10/10 recommend, especially for trans people.

virginia woolf didn’t write about sexy cross dressing victorians to be treated like this

Can’t believe Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the 2000s

And in 2015 Emily Brontë released literary clsssic Wuthering Heights

Thank God someone paved the way for them…

I literally cannot overstate how important creative hobbies are when dealing with mental illness. If you can’t draw, there are coloring books. If you can’t write a novel, you can write in short journaling bursts. If you can’t sing in the shower, you can listen to music. Sometimes with mental illness it feels like we have this dark presence inside of us that is bumping around in our brain and organs, causing problems. It helps immensely to let it out.

i wanna be hugged for like, a week straight

bro… no homo… but what if i… chased after your train while you look out the window and cry… no homo though…

any native italian speakers (or just people who are completely fluent in italian) here? i’ve started attempting to learn italian and i’m not really sure where to start. plus it would be nice to have people to talk to in italian to improve my skills. feel free to dm me if u feel like helping me out! :)

i’ll also probably try to post in italian here to help, but since i only started learning just today i won’t do that yet.

Venus Discovering the Dead Adonis (detail), 1650

unknown artist.