i just know tumblr is my app bc where else could i rant my current hyperfixation in the bouts of my sporadic consumption of media then disappear for an eon only to renounce myself again because i'm like, hi sorry for being inactive lately. i spiraled into an incurable slump that i can't literally digest a paragraph or finish a movie and form a coherent sentence but i'm recovered. here's my current sixty-two obessesions, unsolicited analysis, uncalled for opinions, and oh—i also made a position paper and bill proposal to make that fictional world a better place
— Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
on a more personal note — i miss writing fervently, reading into the night, learning to quench that unquenchable thirst for knowledge; i've had a tumultuous couple of months, but as soon as finals are over and i'm on break, i will be returning to myself, to study dead languages, to read, to watch operas and plays, and rediscover myself in the margins of my notebooks, in late nights of classical music, hands stained black and blue with ink, feeling the rush, the sheer danger of creation, of writing, of poetry
oh the urge to be part of a hedonistic slightly deranged secret society
cindy kimberly for alo by lo nightly
"match my freak!" match my open-mindedness, match my creativity, match my curiosity, match my ability to feel emotions so deeply for the people I never met and the world I never experienced that I travel universes for them
btw curating a beautiful environment is about honouring yourself. when you choose to surround yourself with things that are well-made, thoughtfully designed, and meaningful, you affirm that your daily experience matters. investing in quality over convenience sends a subconscious message of self-worth that is completely foundational to building a better life.
Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student
poems to read while having breakfast at the heartbreak hotel
I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale
[you fit into me] by Margaret Atwood
You by Carol Ann Duffy
Be Near Me by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Blessed be the spectacle by Lev St. Valentine
You Are Tired (I Think) by E.E. Cummings
Hope you're well. Please don't read this by Lev St. Valentine
To Say Dark Things by Ingeborg Bachmann
Lilichka by Vladimir Mayakovski
Love and Hate by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
Sanctuary by Jean Valentine
the winter sun says fight by Peter Gizzi
The More Loving One by W. H. Auden
A Primer For The Small Weird Loves by Richard Siken
Dirty Valentine by Richard Siken
Morning by Frank O Hara
We Don't Know How To Say Goodbye by Anna Akhmatova
You'll Live, But I'll Not… by Anna Akhmatova
from “An Attempt at Jealousy” by Marina Tsvetaeva
The Last Toast by Anna Akhmatova
In Dream by Anna Akhmatova
Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath
Talking In Bed by Philip Larkin
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
the most fun a girl can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, making connections, contemplating