I’d Say The Best Thing I Have Learned This Year Is To Just Let People Be Who They Naturally Are. No

To be loved is to be known; to be seen.

Excerpts Sources:

Is it okay to say this? - Trista Masteer // Blasted - Sarah Kane // Reassurances to Hades - Kristina Haynes // The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - T.J. Reid // My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man - Georges Bataille //"The Last Poem in the Book," These Days (Alfred A. Knopf, 1989); Over and over again - Frederick Seidel // My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man - Georges Bataille // Adult Children of Emotionaly Immature Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson // She Satisfies A Fear with the Rhetoric of Tears - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz // My Life Is Pathetic! - Heather Havrilesky

anyway literally everyone is going through something all the time!!! everyone is wounded!!! everyone is human & no one makes it out of this life unscathed!! maybe try approaching people in good faith instead of always defaulting to the worst possible interpretations of each other

“you can't have a strong character and an easy life at the same time” why don't you just stab me in the chest?

I LOVE being alive so I can be mediocre at SO many different hobbies

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Jack Gilbert, from Collected Poems; "Waking at Night"

a year (or so) of fics, in retrospect

once every handful of years i remember to look back at the collection of projects i’ve finished recently and to simulate a critique as if i’m an art school student — and also as if i’m the haunted teacher’s assistant who wants to be gentle on the prof’s behalf but actually hates your work and also i am the other students who have been sitting there for seven hours straight and can’t offer much more except say, “it’s fine.” a one-man critique day, all parts played by me. 

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for my OC: Elara Miracle (🪻\🪡)

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The Living Series, Jenny Holzer

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poetry is stored in the tags

English Song, Fernando Pessoa

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Portrait of Illness as Nightmare, Leila Chatti

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The Sacrificial Lamb, Josefa de Óbidos

helen of troy cleans up after the barbeque, Maria Zoccolo

Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

How To Rest, The Crane Wives

every day i discover more things about myself, like maybe i don't like being in a corporate job after working on thousand of pages of accomplishment report, or maybe it's because this is unpaid labor and i'm just money obsessed idk myself honestly

Its okay if you dont have your whole life together by a certain age. Life is not a script you should follow in order to have everything be perfect (without it containing any changes whatsoever). You still have time to learn, you still have time to love, you still have time to find out, explore and see. Don't be afraid to take your time to achieve your goals and shape your life the way you want it, but also don't forget to stop and enjoy the beauty you might find on the way.