what is grief if not love persevering?

the year of magical thinking - joan didion // the five stages of grief - linda pastan // untitled (ft. ada limòn’s bright dead things) - @heavensghost // boot theory (crush) - richard siken // fleabag (2016-2019) - created by phoebe waller-bridge // the glass essay (glass, irony and god) - anne carson // lost without you pt. 14 - @qoa // the sea - john banville // what mo(u)rning feels like - houston cofield // the truth about grief - fortesa latifi

@fairycosmos / Comic by @shhhitsfine / Comic by @incendavery

c!dream - [you can't go back to where (or who) you've been]

obelisk and metronome // azar nafisi // charlotte ager // house of leaves, mark z danielewski // the mask, matt maeson // john singer sargent // dear dictator, saint motel // mercury, sufjan stevens // a softer world

everyday love

Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Joey Comeau & Emily Horne, A Softer World (#1113)

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Our House

Ana Castillo, I Ask The Impossible

Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

@snoopysfriendwoodstock​, Normal People, Jane Austen, and the Romance of Walking Around

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

John Cooper Clarke, I Wanna Be Yours

Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

@icarusgf (x)

陈情令 | the untamed + the dismal dedications by lemony snicket

[id in alt text]

To lose her now, like this... I've grown up with her, she's like a sister to me. I'd sacrifice my place on the throne for her to see another sunrise.

Sam Levenson // BBC Merlin 1.02 // BBC Merlin 1.10 // Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life // Merlin official books, Valiant // BBC Merlin official script 1.09 // @/pencap, Please, let him be happy // BBC Merlin 5.02 // Richard Siken, War of the Foxes //  BBC Merlin 4.13 // @/beetlejuices // BBC Merlin 4.13 // Anne Sexton // @/frenchtoastlesbian // BBC Merlin 4.05 // Steven Sufjans, The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! // BBC Merlin deleted scene 5.06 // unknown // BBC Merlin 5.02 // unknown // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous // BBC Merlin 5.02 // Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead // Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper // BBC Merlin deleted scene 5.06 // Frank Ocean, White Ferrari // Wandavision // Fortesa Latifi // BBC Merlin 5.13 // BBC Merlin 5.13 // @/thependragons // BBC Merlin 5.13 // Langston Hughes

glenn dean, landscapes of the west / user @petrichara

[id: 1. “humans will swallow almost anything that does not swallow them first.”

2. a yellow legal pad with a few small green leaves on it. in scribble all-caps, in black pen, the words “i want men and men want to hurt me.”

3. “you dangle on the leash of your own longing; your need grows teeth.”

4. a pink background with the words “being a girl is all about rage” surrounded by smiley faces and hearts.

5. “you’ve got to bite the hand that starved you,” /end transcript]

peter farb and george armelagos- consuming passions/silas denver melvin @sweatermuppet- making things with my hands again/margaret atwood- the animals in that country/@girlofswords- being a (trans) girl is all about rage/clementine von radics- courtney love prays to oregon

old friends and their fingerprints all over your life

@i-wrotethisforme / hospital playlist / hozier 

Fantastic Mr Fox dir. Wes Anderson

Disavowals by Claude Cahun (1930)

Riverdale, Chapter Eighteen: When a Stranger Calls created by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (2017-)

How we Fight for our Lives by Saeed Jones (2019)

BoJack Horseman, That Went Well created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg (2014-2020)

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013)

Mimmo Paladino illustration for Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector (1970s)

feeling like you don't belong; running away

all pictures from pinterest

taylor swift, the lakes // hozier, jackie and wilson // aurora, runaway // taylor swift, call it what you want

@roseusnoctua @pani-puri @crypticoneirataxia

old friends

you get me so high, the neighbourhood // the diary of luke castellan, rick riordan // the titan’s curse, rick riordan // letting it go, hrvoje majer // old friend, mitski // dear my friend, agust d // the last olympian, rick riordan // spirit hold, holly warburton // in the hillls of benedict canyon, lana del rey 

Disco Elysium: A Great Democracy Of Creatures

at the end of time, which is also the end of poetry (and wheat and evil and insects and love) — Mary Ruefle, Kiss of the Sun

Hugh Raffles - Insectopedia // Helen F. Wilson - Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through Imperial Eyes // Franklin Ginn - Sticky lives: Slugs, detachment and more-than-human ethics in the garden // Bawaka Country et al. - Gathering of the Clouds: Attending to Indigenous understandings of time and climate through songspirals // Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass // Maan Barua et al. - Flourishing with Awkward Creatures: Togetherness, Vulnerability, Killing // Jonathan Gottschall - The Storytelling Animal // John Milton - Paradise Lost // Mary Oliver - The Summer Day // Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - Axolotl // Ursula K Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness // Ursula K Le Guin - Late in the Day

hello! going thru ur web tag and i love this so much (trying to find fanfic inspo and it's lead me here), anyways, i was wondering if i could request a web weave around the idea of "at some point, the word 'husband' became his face"? being so in love/devoted that no one else could compare, could even hope to come close? thank you!

Pablo Neruda, I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

Sense and Sensibility (1995) dir. Ang Lee

Jeffrey McDaniel, The Archipelago of Kisses

Elyse Fitzpatrick, Idols of the Heart

William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Joey Comeau, A Softer World (#1000)

When Harry Met Sally (1989) dir. Rob Reiner

Amy Shark, Adore

The Great Gatsby (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann

Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

'through heaven;s eyes', from the prince of egypt ; honour, by elif shafak

Maybe we’re from the same star.

Emery Allen // King Arthur, Wikipedia // BBC Merlin opening // BBC Merlin 5.12 // BBC Merlin 2.08 // E.E. Cummings // Crush, Richard Siken // Merthur star // Necessities, Lisel Mueller // @/pastelsunsetandwhitewine // BBC Merlin 5.13 // All of the Stars, Glenn & Ronan //  Matthew Stover // BBC Merlin 5.13 //  Matthew Stover // Zoe Skylar // BBC Merlin 4.01 deleted scene // Carl Sagan // BBC Merlin 5.13 // Yellow, Coldplay // BBC Merlin 1.01 // BBC Merlin 5.13 //  BBC Merlin 3.13 // Crosswinds, J. Tillman // BBC Merlin 1.13 // Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays //  BBC Merlin 5.13 // The Call, Regina Spektor //  BBC Merlin 1.04 // The Call, Regina Spektor // BBC Merlin 5.12 //  BBC Merlin 5.12 // All of the Stars, Glenn & Ronan // BBC Merlin 5.03 // The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

on my series of undiagnosed mental disorders.

unknown / ‘how mother’s shape their daughters’ body image’ stacey rosenfeld for mic / portrait of a lady on fire / mitski’s ‘goodbye, my danish sweetheart’ / mitski’s ‘a burning hill’ / charlotte gainsbourgh photographed by jason nocito / mouthful of forevers, clementine von radics / the ‘provocative’ embroidery of ana teresa barboza

[transcript: 1. “but if i gave up on being pretty, i wouldn’t know how to be alive. i should move to a brand new city and teach myself how to die.”

2. “i was an injured voice. precious body war-torn & tornadoed by argument. someone must have wanted me. once.”

3. “Harper: when you pray, what do you pray for? Joe: i pray for god to crush me, break me up into little pieces, and start all over again.”

4. “i always wanted to die clean and pretty, but i’d be too busy on working days.”

5. “i am most gorgeous at a distance. so it is with any bottled poison.”

6. “he thought about wanting to feel like he had been made for something more than dying.” /end transcript]

mitski- brand new city/silas denver melvin @sweatermuppet- double speed/tony kushner- angels in america/last words of a shooting star- mitski/silas denver melvin- & so the story goes/maggie stiefvater- mister impossible

When a disabled body moves into any space, it discloses the social body implied by that space. There is a one-to-one correspondence between the dimensions of the built environment and its preferred social body—the body invited inside as opposed to those bodies not issued an invitation.

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Disability Pride

ollie renee schminkey // A:TLA S2E4: “The Blind Bandit” // A:TLA S1E19: “The Northern Air Temple” // laura hershey // edits by @exlibrisastra // disability pride flag by ann magill // death, disability, and the superhero: the silver age and beyond by josé alaniz