Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet

There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

*violently taps screen*

LET ME REBLOG IT!!!

Anyways I’d like to cite Mads Mikkelsen having to fight himself from kissing Hugh Dancy at the end of Hannibal.

King shit right there.

love is drugging your best friend so that he can’t go blow up his career and potentially get arrested by admitting to helping his patient kill himself.

(romance is catching his head before it hits the table)

love is presenting his conference paper yourself and pretending that scenario actually happened to you so that he still gets to say what he wanted to say but you take on the risk. 

(romance is when he comes to, manages to find a pair of pants, and bursts into the room— and you meet his eyes)

love is saying to the room that that was the right decision and the person who made it did his best. 

love is granting him the absolution he needs.

when Alexander Claremont-Diaz says "it would be lie, because it wouldn’t be him" reblog if you agree

WEEK 2 DRABBLES ARE HERE!

Now, let’s refresh your memory.

For the second week of LDWS, our true l- our writers were asked to write a drabble between 150 and 200 words, based on the word deck from the point of view of an outsider.

THEY DID SUCH A GREAT JOB!

(this is a purely illustrative gif of an outside observer of the goings on at Q’s flat, not a prompt)

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the thing is, somebody cares. i know your best friend seems really busy all the time and is shit at texting but she still loves you and she talks to you more than she talks to anyone else and you’re the only breath of calm she has on this planet. the boy in your science class loves seeing what music you’re listening to on your headphones - he has the same taste and wishes he had the nerve to ask you about it. your english teacher loves the insight you have on your papers. somebody cares. the person who lives down the street from you notices when you are sick because they don’t see you stomping your way to the schoolbus - it’s how they know it’s time to get their breakfast ready. somebody is looking for you at the party, even if they don’t know they’re really looking for you - but when you don’t show up, some part of them is disappointed. somebody is looking for you in the library, in the spot where you eat lunch, in front of that one step you always seem to trip on. i know your parents are a complicated mess and there’s drama between your friends and your love life is sort of shaped like a constant question and everybody seems all caught up in their own lives and their own happiness and nobody really notices: but somebody always does. every face in your dreams is someone you have met, and that means that you are in a million’s stranger’s heads. they see you when they go to bed. and somebody cares. somebody still thinks about you even though you were just a person with a nice outfit or good eyeliner or a great smile or because you were having one of those moments that are so charmingly human in nature or because they regret not asking if you needed help when you fell or because they wonder what you were thinking about or drawing or writing or just because you’re alive, and that makes you fascinating. somebody cares. when you were on break from work and saw a dog hanging his head out of the car and suddenly broke into a smile: there was a girl in the back of that car, and I was her, and I still think about you, and i hope you get more chances to smile like that. and there is you, sitting here reading this, and by some small extension, meeting me, and i am telling you, I care. somebody always does. i promise. i promise. you are loved.

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

Meowrpheus :3

christopher bursk, “ovid at fifteen” (2003) // david álvarez, “metamorpho” (2021), “agony” (2021)