ramadan mubarak to all my beautiful mutuals who celebrate it, may it fill your hearts with peace and hope 🌷🦋🤍
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whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same (insult)
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History student falls in love with astrophysics student by Keaton St. James
(patreon)
[poem text: listen, nine hundred and fifty years before jesus was a child shaking willow leaves out of his tangled curls, the author of the song of solomon wrote: behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.
what i’m trying to say is that, in this universe which sculpted itself from a baptism of fire, i am the moon swept up by your tenderness. you’ve got me dreaming foreign words: gravity, ellipsis, perigee, until all i can think about is becoming anchored into orbit around the saltwater-green landscape of your laughter.
listen, plato of ancient greece wrote that the souls we each have now are only halves. that in a frenzy of blood zeus severed us from each other, so we rely on the blind tugging of our hearts. you say my name and i want to knit my bones into your bones, smooth away the boundaries of our heartbeats.
what i’m trying to say is that if the temperature inside those wild pockets of interstellar dust hits right near absolute zero, carbon monoxide and dihydrogen molecules condense together in the dark nebula to form stars. if you’re ready, i want to make you shiver like that. /end poem text.]
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Sue Zhao
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you seem like you have a lot of unresolved issues that really impact your life. do wanna go out sometime
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yes honey your ecstasies are holy and your visions are divinely inspired can we fuck now
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Naomi Shihab Nye, “Red Brocade”
[Text ID: “The Arabs used to say,
When a stranger appears at your door,
feed him for three days
before asking who he is,
where he’s come from,
where he’s headed.
That way, he’ll have strength
enough to answer.
Or, by then your’ll be
such good friends
you don’t care.”]
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Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World
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instead of killing myself i will watch documentary about the ocean
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people who only use conventional social media are so funny bc they’ll casually be like “can I see your tumblr??” are you Insane. this is no instagram or twitter. this is my vault of secrets
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“I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”
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Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Left-Handed Commencement Address” (Mills College, 1983)
this passage planted itself in my consciousness when i was 24, and 10 years later, it informs so much of my approach to living, thinking, creating.
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What am I, if not yours?
What do I do with my hands
when they are just hands?
— Olivia Gatwood, from “The Lover as a Cult,” Life of the Party
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Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
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I think the hot new trends for this summer should be reading comprehension and critical thinking skills
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cilf (city I'd like to fuck)
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― Ovid, Metamorphoses
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