yuck i fucking hate having ~cinematic~ mental illness moments. was in the bathroom just now trying to put in my earrings and my hands were shaking so bad it took me like five minutes and i was getting irrationally upset so i started tearing up and it's like. ugh. this WOULD be the scene in a movie that shows that the character's emotional health has completely gone to shit. ugh.
Stellar sketch from Sphaera Mundi, 1620, by Italian Jesuit astronomer Giuseppe Biancani: “Illustration locates stars by the antarctic circle. They are not shown as embedded in the sphere of the fixed stars. This early depiction of the constellation of the southern cross shows it unconfined.”
(Linda Hall Library)
“press a shell to your chest / so that it hears the ocean inside”
— Stacey Teague, “spell to erase and replace,” published in Peach Mag (via bostonpoetryslam)
excuse me while i go cry
[text ID: tweet by Heather Christle replying to Danez Smith that reads, “Once a first grader asked me how long a poem had to be and when I said it could be just one word he wrote a poem that was just his best friend’s phone number. 💖]
Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from “Maria Nephele: A Poem In Two,”
Running Up That Hill Tee
me as a 14th century knight: this sucks i'm gonna fms (translator's note: fall on my sword)
medusa sketch by james jean (2022)
Freja Atelier - ss25