#you know how they opened up the mailboxes to trees? and people sent in poetry to them? this to me. weeping ok

[crossbackpoke-check]

Sometimes, I will come across your blog and read certain tags on certain pairs because, What? What? How are your thoughts my thoughts? How is someone else expressing (so perfectly) what I thought existed only in my head? The references (warm leftovers, please. Feel horribly proprietary over that poem.), the memes, the word choices. I know we all grew up on the same internet, but it's like we grew up in the same corner.

It rattles me each time it happens and yet, the next time I return, and wander through, reading along as if we were walking through my local arboretum and you were rambling and I was nodding along. Consider this ask my version of a reply in the arboretum world.

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when i got this i just had to sit there and read your message a few times because that is one of the loveliest compliments i’ve ever gotten and i hope you know i am overjoyed to be here rambling to you 💕 to have touched you in some way!! to form a connection!!! and all i can say is thank you and i love you and i would love to go for a walk in the arboretum with you any time

#no because WARM LEFTOVERS???? i think there’s a little bit of all of us who feels so proprietary over that poem #because it’s asking for a sense of ownership for a belonging and ohhhh it fucks me up every time. every time i cry and in particular #that you love that tangled-up half idea is just. so dear to me like please!! come share the brain!!! i want to listen to you!!! i fully #i don’t even. hearts for thumbs i am actually having the reaction right now of yeah sorry the idea of genuine human connection got to me. #you know how they opened up the mailboxes to trees? and people sent in poetry to them? this to me. weeping ok #liv in the replies #one of my favorite tags to yell is SAME BRAIN!!! 🧠 🧠🧠 and i get to do that with you today <3 #anyway. thank you for making my day also i PROMISE i am not scary i would love to be your friend #also the fact that i have been searching for where i pulled ‘quilted together’ from because i could not remember why for the longest time & #i think in looking yesterday i found that it was from black girls rising i-