Embraces (melt Into Me)

from The Crown Ain’t Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib

Odysseus Elytis, from Maria Nephele (trans. from the Greek by Athan Anagnostopoulos)

[Text ID: Hello grief / Good morning grief / you've settled permanently within us]

I love using "by the way" as a segue into topics that are completely unrelated to the matters at hand. it isn't remotely by the way, quite a ways out of the way in fact. a little adventure

Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (translated by Carol Brown Janeway)

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

I think my favorite pieces of media are ones that are heartbreaking but also heartwarming like I want them to make me cry and also feel a little bit better about the world

i'm all the people i've ever loved

loseness lines over time by olivia de recat, @i-wrotethisforme, Kaveh Akbar, Olivie Blake

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath; entry no. 102

liking christmas = spoiled nepo baby

liking halloween = victorian street urchin

liking thanksgiving = big and greedy

liking valentines day = borderline personality disorder