ratmonk

[ratmonk]

Mikko Harvey Wind-Related in the Wheatfield // Jonny Bolduc open question @jovialtorchlight // Cheryl Strayed Tiny Beautiful Things // @/mkpoet (instagram) // Mary Oliver Count the Roses // Phoebe Bridgers Waiting Room // Fyodor Dostoyevsky // Marie Howe Magdalene Afterwards; "Magdalene: Poems"

[ratmonk]

— May Sarton, from “Journal of a Solitude.”

[ratmonk]

i love you, it looks like rain, June Gehringer

[ratmonk]

of course movies are supposed to make you feel something it’s just that greta gerwig’s filmography manages to somehow specifically activate the exact state of my brain in seventh grade when i realized that my cishet girl peers were having life experiences that i could not ever be included in or understand because they were cishet girls and i wasn’t. sad!

[ratmonk]

— Brenda Shaughnessy, from "Human Dark with Sugar"

[ratmonk]

but he’s the eldest boy!

[ratmonk]

The Jacaranda Years by Yiwei Chai

[ratmonk]

From Waiting for This Story to End Before I Begin Another by Jan Heller Levi (via hush-syrup)

[ratmonk]

THE BEAR S02E08 - Bolognese

[ratmonk]

Carrie Fountain, from "Late Spring in the Mesilla Valley", Burn Lake

[ratmonk]

KENDALL & LOGAN | when god is your father

other inquisitions, jorge luis borges / succession 1x10 / the real food, eduardo corral / succession 2x03 / at the dinner table with god and my father, william bearheart / succession 1x10 / lullaby on mount moriah, traci brimhall / succession 2x10 / the sun is also a star, nicola yoon

[ratmonk]

Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris

(via Mubi)

[ratmonk]

the catharsis in the dust being scrubbed clean was one of the most devastating beats in the finale for me

[ratmonk]

I can't believe childhood is over. SUCCESSION (2018-2023)

[ratmonk]

succession, "mass in time of war" / "with open eyes"

[ratmonk]

“Often father and daughter look down on mother together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate”

[ratmonk]

The most tragic thing this episode to me is Kendall recanting his confession. That was the one real thing he’d offered his siblings, and he took it back, and now he can’t un-take it back. And they’d given him something real in return, the best version of tenderness they could muster, and now that’s gone too. Kendall was never going to be CEO, but maybe he could’ve been a less lonely man, less apart from the world. (Or maybe not, the trick to tragedies is they always seem avoidable and inevitable at the same time.) Kendall, alone, Colin trailing behind him…he did get to be his dad in the end