And that Sam, that is exactly why our lives suck. I mean, come on, we hunt monsters! What the hell?! I mean, normal people, they see a monster, and they run. But not us, no, no, no, we – we search out things that want to kill us. Yeah? Huh? Or eat us! You know who does that? Crazy people!
Supernatural, Kripke Era (Season 1-5)
Li Shangyin, from When Will I be Home? (tr. by Kenneth Rexroth)
Here, have some (mildly cursed) bumper stickers for all your Dracula needs.
"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."
vs
"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."
It’s not as hard as it seems. Taken by me. Santa Cruz Island, CA.
“Tell me. Is there anything of value in this life that doesn’t come with risk?”
“the poem begins not where the knife enters but where the blade twists.”
— Hanif Abdurraqib, from his poem ‘The Prestige’, published at Poets.Org
— Franz Kafka, from “Letters to Milena.”
— Richard Jackson, from “Basic Algebra.”
— Madeline Miller, from “Circe.”
—Logan February, from “Sober II.”
— Meggie Royer, from “Psych Ward Lover.”
— Antonin Artaud, from “Manifesto in Clear Language.”
— Charles Bukowski, from “Screams From the Balcony.”
— Sanna Wani, from “Tragedy.”
— Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems: 1965-1975
— Nizar Qabbani, from “I am accused.”
— Adrienne Rich, from “Integrity.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, from “Report To Greco.”
— Georges Bataille, from The Collected Poems: “The Dawn.”
laika as a metaphor for parenthood
ben florin, "laika"/jamaica kincaid/le loup, "we are gods! we are wolves!"/archival footage of the soviet space program/genesis 22/alan shapiro, "space dog"/olesya turkina, soviet space dogs/brennig davies, "first dog in space"/daniel mallory ortberg, "children's stories made horrific: curious george"/idomeneo prepares to sacrifice his son in the garsington opera production of "idomeneo"/alan shapiro, "space dog"/louise glück, "the gold lily"/the lion king, "endless night"/jonathan coulton, "space doggity"/bojack horseman, "free churro"/maynard solomon, mozart: a life/alex wellerstein writing for the new yorker/ancient doll found in roman egypt/steiff laika toy/guillermo del toro's pinocchio/richard silken/laika wikipedia page/bojack horseman, "free churro"/photograph of laika/oleg gazenko/alan shapiro, "space dog"
LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS
Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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i can’t look into your eyes, but they’re all i think about. i memorized your face as if it’s my mirror, or a prayer that needs to be said every night. i will forget my name before i forget you.
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if you feel like you don’t know yourself, i recommend keeping one notebook in that you put everything. thoughts, quotes you like, cool art work, postcards, to do lists, diary entries, reviews of books, tv shows, lists of things to to, places to travel or stuff to buy, playlists, moodboards, trackers, pictures, sticky notes, tickets of any kind, shadow work, letters, dried flowers or leaves, brain dumps, gratitude and plans. everything. while in the process of filling this journal you will get a sense of yourself, of things you like and little bits you didn’t know about yourself before, esp. once you reread old entries or look at old photos.
do u ever come to the realization that you’re literally a slave to nostalgia. no matter how good you life is, you can’t help but compare it to childhood memories that play in your mind like a broken loop. the present is good, but does it have the rosy film of the past? will springs ever feel as they did when you experienced them as a child? will happiness ever feel as all-encompassing and endless? how can i ever be satisfied if i’m trying to chase a feeling no longer attainable to my grown up self