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God i hate these sudden bursts of sadness, where I'm wrapped in feeling like I am not growing, even though I am. I just want to be feeling more present and grounded. It's really difficult to do this when all I am receiving from the world are either static or the sounds of rejection.

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Sit down to write when you have even half an hour, not waiting to have a lot of free time in hand.

I want everyone’s best one liner writing advise!

Mine is that you have to know the ending of your story before you start it.

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WE MUST STRUGGLE EVERY DAY SO THAT THIS LOVE FOR HUMANITY BECOMES A REALITY

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so i see a lot of positivity posts about how ‘you’re allowed to take up space!’ and ‘don’t apologize for existing!’ which are 1) really good and 2) really true, but i’m sometimes left wishing they gave specific examples

so, if you’re like me and are the type to need this sort of thing, you now officially have permission to: 

ask for things to change to make you more comfortable

say ‘no’ to things that make you uncomfortable

feel negative emotions in an ostensibly positive situation

feel positive emotions in an ostensibly negative situation

make mistakes 

say the wrong thing 

do the wrong thing

ignore a text, question, email, invitation, etc. 

fall short of someone’s standards, including your own

not understand something

ask clarifying questions 

break social norms

be ‘too much’ of something

be ‘too little’ of something

have preferences and needs that differ from those around you

articulate what’s important to you

you are allowed to be a flawed person. you are allowed to be unapologetic and unafraid. entirely, radically, completely: you are allowed to exist.

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Charif Shanahan, While I Wash My Face I Ask Impossible Questions of Myself and Those Who Love Me

Text ID:

When the new beginning comes, what then?

Does life suddenly reset like an Atari?

Does meaning emerge

Assertively and without invitation?

The task is to live well enough with you.

But how? How do you know what you want

If you don't tell you? If you don't hear you?

#new year #poetry #new beginnings #charif shanahan #goodreads #storygraph #books and literature #indie author #bookshelf #writers on tumblr #bookstagram #bookstack #literary fiction

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a friend has been staying at my home and I'm being easily triggered by many things they say. Maybe because i see them as smarter than me, more accomplished. Maybe i am feeling small.

sometimes i can't tell whether many of my opinions are just all biases and ego-induced responses masked with reasons

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sometimes i can't tell whether many of my opinions are just all biases and ego-induced responses masked with reasons

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gods let this year be one where words fail me only when it ought to

#poetry #writing #creative writing #books and literature #new year #2023 goals #2023

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Corfu: Lights and Shadows, John Singer Sargent, 1909

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suddenly, after adopting a cat, I'm more aware of my home's specific ecosystem. I'm aware of the plants in my balcony, the kind of detergents or cleaners i had lying around, the kind of food that i eat and so on. i mean I've over the past few years become more conscious of humankind's ecological influences, but knowing it on a personal level is still impactful. not to say that the anthropogenic climate crisis can or should be dealt with on an individual level. counting our personal carbon footprint--unless we are just obnoxiously rich--is not an answer to our problem. But still. My cat opens a window for me into understanding how we coexist with other creatures in urban ecology. Anyway here's my cat.

#my cats #cat dad #catecology #cat under chair #ecology #urban ecology #anthropocene #anthropology #sociology

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I'm running into a new year 26 yo, without a stable job, with friends and comrades who love me a lot, and a chonky cat.

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found this post on a friend's story

#poetry #lucille clifton #new year #Instagram

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What is love if not reading a book anotated by your lover

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For all the less popular writers. For the writers who don't get much attention. For the writers who have a very small following, or no following. For the writers who don't get a lot of notes or comments.

You are valid. You are brilliant. You are creating something unique and magical and all yours. No one would create it better. You are creating! You're writing! That is a magic all its own, and all yours.

You are valued, and valuable, and good enough as you are.

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In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

#carmen maria machado #dream house #in the dream house #romantic friendship #platonic love #queer friendship

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Work Song by Hozier / Mahmoud Darwish

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“In my friend, I find a second self.”

c.s. lewis / my best friend by the coral / @slugspoon (alivia horsley) / @billypotts / hanya yanagihara / ‘after party ll’ salman toor / the kids aren’t alright by fall out boy / a summer’s tale / lorde / hanya yanagihara / abed and troy (community) with a winnie the pooh quote @weelezzer / isabel norton

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lately I've noticed how the men around me, my friends and comrades, don't tick many of the conventional boxes of manhood. And that's gives me hope.

#masculinity #thoughts #reflections #gender is bullshit