ribs, lorde / @inanotherunivrse / iain s. thomas, i wrote this for you / zadie smith, swing time / girlpool - before the world was big / clementine von radics, in a dream you saw a way to survive / lemony snicket, the beatrice letters / tory adkisson, anecdote of the pig / @boymiffy / @becherdireinen

do it weird do it scared do it shy do it anxious do it lonely do it cautious do it with shaking hands. but do it.

it’s me. hi. i’m the problem. it’s me.

@padfoot-lupin77/@ryebreadgf/why am i like this? - orla gartland/the letters of virginia woolf/@dreamer-but-realist/anti-hero - taylor swift/sylvia plath/@jaggedjawjosh /@body-to-flame/making the bed - olivia rodrigo/anti-hero - taylor swift

a normal and average sunday consists of lying on the ground thinking about how much I'd like to go back and do everything again because this time I'd do everything right

oh we can't turn back time? that's cool, I'll spend the rest of my life wishing I could though

Dear Reader: a web weave (citations under the cut)

Dear Reader / Look What You Made Me Do music video (2017) / I Know Places / …Ready For It? music video (2017) / Dear Reader / End Game / Reputation Stadium Tour visuals / Getaway Car / Photo of Reputation Stadium Tour / Nothing New / Dear Reader / Picture To Burn / Photo of The Eras Tour (LINK) / Look What You Made Me Do / Look What You Made Me Do music video / mirrorball / Dear Reader / If You’re Anything Like Me / Dear Reader / Forever Winter / Why She Disappeared / Forever Winter / willow / Dear Reader / it’s time to go… / Dear Reader / Image from The Ellen Degeneres Show / Paris / King of My Heart / Taylor Swift: ‘I was literally about to break’, Laura Snapes (X) / King of My Heart / Dear Reader / Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve / Photo of Lover promo using lyrics from Cruel Summer / Dear Reader / Anti-Hero Music Video (2022) / I Know Places / Anti-Hero Music Video (2022) / Dear Reader / End Game Music Video (2018) / Death By A Thousand Cuts / Anti-Hero Music Video (2022) / Soon You’ll Get Better / Dear Reader / ivy / Bigger Than The Whole Sky / Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve / Dear Reader / Tied Together With a Smile / Dear Reader / reputation prologue / Dear Reader / A Place in This World / Dear Reader / High Infidelity / Photo of The Eras Tour / Dear Reader / This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things / Look What You Made Me Do music video (2017) / right where you left me / If You’re Anything Like Me / Mastermind / The Outside / Dear Reader / Anti-Hero music video (2022) / New Romantics / Wonderland / Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince / Blank Space / A Place in this World / Lavender Haze music video (2023) / Nothing New / Dear Reader / Look What You Made Me Do music video (2017) / Sweet Nothing / Anti-Hero / Anti-Hero / Bejewelled music video (2022) / Anti-Hero / Dear Reader / Tim McGraw / this is me trying / Bejewelled / Dear John / mirrorball / Bejewelled music video (2022)

we have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it. the land drowned, the sky on fire, the gold light falling backwards through the glass of every room. i’ll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger. is that too much to expect? that i would name the stars for you? that i would take you there? the splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube? we’ve read the back of the book, we know what’s going to happen. the fields burned, the land destroyed, the lovers left broken in the brown dirt. and then it’s gone. makes you sad. all your friends are gone. goodbye. goodbye. no more tears.

“SNOW AND DIRTY RAIN” BY RICHARD SIKEN

On (Maladaptive) Daydreaming

Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, Martha Gellhorn // Daydreamin', Lupe Fiasco // David’s lost psalm, Richard Jackson // A Breath of Life, Clarice Lispector // The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson // Unknown // Unknown // Euphoria S2 (2022) // Clarice Lispector // Before Sunset (2004) // Anna Quindlen // Yiwei Chai // Unknown // As conciousness is harnessed to flesh, Susan Sontag // The End of the World as We Know It Scenes from a Life, Robert Goolrick // Crush, Richard Siken // Oh No!, Marina and the Diamonds // Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) // Report to Greco, Nikos Kazantzakis // Heaven, Mieko Kawakami // Intangible, Madisen Kuhn // Heaven, Mieko Kawakami // Unknown // Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami // Euphoria - Fuck Anyone Who's Not a Sea Blob (2021) // Poetry as Survival, Gregory Orr // Girls Against God, Florence + the Machine // The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa // White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky // Florence Welch

17 and other meaningless things

Editor's Letter, Tavi Gevinson / unknown / Lie With Me, Philippe Besson / art, @fanny-hs / Tuesday, Alex Dimitrov / unknown / simone de beauvoir, memoirs of a dutiful daughter / unknown / Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami / One Tree Hill / august to do list, @thegirlhoodtheory

Emily Dickinson, "If I can stop one heart from breaking" // Disney, Lilo and Stitch // Becks_RyLynn on ao3, "How the Light Gets In" // Jessica Darrow—Surface Pressure // The Hunger Games (2012) // The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) // Lin Manuel-Miranda—The Reynold's Pamphlet // @throwitinthelake 's tags on this post // @lucidloving // see 2

you ever just. the longing, right?

im like if a poet or perhaps another writer of some sort never wrote anything

United States Junior Gymnastic Team of ‘88-‘89

Catherine Todd née Johnson & Mary Grayson née Lloyd: I hope we meet again (I’m letting you go)

@kindlespark / The Book Thief, Markus Zusak / ? / dc comics / Diary, Chuck Palahniuk / Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace / Always Gold, Radical Face / Us Against You, Fredrik Backman / @inanotherunivrse / I Wanted to Leave, SYML / ? / ? / Psychogeography, Chelsea Dingman / @leonardospoetry + me / On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong / Past Lives (2023) / A Letter to Love, Caitlyn Siehl / @archivegeo / In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive, Clementine von Radics / Always Gold, Radical Face / Dorothea, Taylor Swift / Stand by Me (1986) / dc comics + On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong / Life After Death, Laura Gilpin / Lost Without You, Freya Ridings

"I weep because you cannot save people. You can only love them."

jeanette winterson | there is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying | a little life by hanya yanagihara | everything everywhere all at once | vladimir nabokov | if it's love, it must be more than most

three specific kinds of terror, jacob geller / working for the knife, mitski / the magnus archives, ep. 92 "nothing beside remains"

It's a house, but it's also a prison.

Huesera (dir. Michelle Garza Cervera) x The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson | Ash, Tracy K. Smith | Champagne Problems, Taylor Swift | I Know The End, Phoebe Bridgers.