& You Know What It Actually IS Lifechanging To Smile At Strangers & Say Please & Thank You & Goodmorning

a god hurt me, i fell - a web weave

for my OC: Elara Miracle (🪻\🪡)

Sources:

Unknown

The Living Series, Jenny Holzer

Poppies, Holly Warburton

poetry is stored in the tags

English Song, Fernando Pessoa

Vox Machina, Critical Role (Episode 63)

The Wing, Xooang Choi

Portrait of Illness as Nightmare, Leila Chatti

Unknown

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

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

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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https://evelionheart.medium.com/on-the-intimacy-of-the-mundane-863f9efb3c39

— Louise Glück, from “Timor Mortis.”

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are they not both saying: Hello?

Paolo Giordano, “The Solitude of Prime Numbers” / Antonio Tonelli / Laura Giplin, “A Toast to the Alchemists” / Dennis Overbye, “Music of the Heavens Turns Out to Sound a Lot Like a B Flat” / Carina Nebula / Marie Howe, “Singularity” / Alan Bean, “Is Anyone Out There?” / Bill Bryson, “A Short History of Nearly Everything” / Garrett Lee, “Canyon” / Whit Bronaugh, “The Trees That Miss The Mammoths”

life is just humiliating yourself over and over and learning to live with the inherent shame of being alive !! do what makes you happy !! it is impossible to live life without embarrassment, so why bother trying !!

another important thing to remember is 1) u can pick up any hobby at any point in ur life and get outstandingly good at it & 2) the project u've been working on & aren't pleased w the current outcome so far will not be your last. u will draw/crochet/paint/sculpt/write another piece, and another, and you will have many chances to be fully content w your craft. so you should cherish the joy of making art instead of worrying ab the results & think ab how lovely it is that we're all vessels for artistry and we can share the divine act of creation!!!!!

"James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78", An Interview by Jordan Elgrably

afterall, feeling understood is the greatest form of love.