— Reema Sherin, Strings

does anyone have the post thats a leonard cohen quote talking about being empty

Piotr Stachiewicz - Holy Regina of Morning (ca. 1907)

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

please could you be tender?

love warrior, glennon doyle melton / fleabag (2016-2019), dir. phoebe waller-bridge / shannon barry / andrew garfield for gq’s men of the year 2022 / jamie anderson / not quite here, hannah lock / ocean voung / holly warburton / andrew garfield, the late late show with james colbert / silence of the girls, pat barker

mary oliver, from october

rm, everythingoes (trans. doolsetbangtan)

fyodor dostoyevsky, from the brothers karamazov

yumi sakugawa (source)

ocean vuong, from on earth we're briefly gorgeous

sylvia plath, from the bell jar

bernadette mayer, from the way to keep going in antarctica

ada limón, from dead stars

rainer maria rilke, from letters to a young poet

mary oliver, from moments

Anger is a poison, and like many poisons, it can also be made into medicine.

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details by Roberto Ferri

She is brightness, she is luminance. She will hypnotize you and drag you into her world. Her name...

... is Light Mode. 

This drawing turned out a little more serious than I had originally intended. I get so many comments about using light mode for my computer and phone that it became the inspiration for some new artwork!

𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔢

Frank Bidart, “To the Dead”, Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965-2016

[Text ID: “The love I’ve known is the love of two people staring

not at each other, but in the same direction.”]

big fan of these menu names

I think we often play down the awful things that happen to us, maybe because they’re so hard to think about, maybe because we’re disappointed things didn’t turn out the way we wanted and we blame ourselves even though a lot depends on external factors we couldn’t control. Anyway. Everyone is really going through it, and it’s good to give others the benefit of the doubt and try our best to be kind, right? Yeah, that also applies to you. You don’t have to earn everything by giving yourself away until there’s nothing left, or by proving yourself perfect over and over. Don’t demand so much out of yourself. Sometimes it’s best to recognize those things you’ve been through weren’t easy, and to remember you’re not a failure because you couldn’t completely control those bad situations you found yourself in. I hope you can realize you are more than the bad things that have happened to you, that life won’t always be great, but it won’t always be a complete tragedy. You’re just a person trying your best to keep going even though some terrible memories still bring you down. But I hope you’re proud for having survived. It’s time to create more pleasant memories. You’ve hurt enough. You deserve comfort, and love and help.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) La Loyauté, 1876