I've Seen This Before, But It's Been Years And It Just Came Across My Twitter In Its Dying Days. The

2025 wants this to be reblogged again!

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

Alex Dimitrov, from "Chance Visitors"

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

thank your local trans girl for being alive right now

a body — a life, a death

Richard Siken, Vi Khi Nao, Ilya Kaminsky, Porochista Khakpour, LCD Soundsystem, Ocean Vuong, Charles Bukowski, Jane Kenyon, Anne Sexton, Shruti Swamy, Warsan Shire, Mark Strand, Japanese Breakfast, Anna Akhmatova, Ocean Vuong

Anybody can love you when it is easy, 

when they love the very idea of you

that they have cultivated to entertain

them, but can you love me when the reality

is different from that which you expect?

Can you love me even when I am a mess

or is your love incapable of expanding

beyond the shallowness of the depths

in which you choose to cautiously wade?

Can you only love me in the colors

that you have painted with the brush of

your own eyes that hides the truth of

this flesh because I am not the heaven

you have made of me, but the cosmic dust

of the reality of this earth and the breath of

the hope of its last prayer?

- J.Wool, Can You Love Me Then, Breaths of the Soul

thinking about anastasia trusova paintings again

This is heaven

"Failing Better: A Conversation with Ocean Vuong" interviewed by Viet Thanh Nguyen for LA Review of Books (2019) [ID'd]