something organic about seeing "[some of the lamest shit you've ever read] is one of the hardest lines ever." tumblr ass sentence
I want to / lie down somewhere and suffer for love until / it nearly kills me,
Kim Addonizio, Tell Me; from ‘For Desire’
Toni Morrison? Alice Walker? Zora Neale Hurston? Ralph Ellison? James Baldwin? Lorraine Hansbury? Maya Angelou? Octavia Butler? Langston Hughes? Bell Hooks? Many many many many others? Go fuck yourself you lazy, anti-intellectual asshole
pov Derek Hale obliterates your memory bc it’s Thursday. he’s happy about it too.
we’re the only animals that know what will happen later in the day
deer: “who knows. i might find a river. i may be attacked by wolves”
man, gods favorite creature: “tonight i will indulge in overwatch pornography”
i love movies that are so fucked up that when they end you just sit there in silence for two minutes watching the credits roll like
one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".
Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people
What’s that quote? There are only two kinds of stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.
We know he offered fruit; his brother offered a lamb. Did Cain say: I gave God the thing itself and not the symbol. Did he mean to say: God wanted a blood sacrifice. That’s exactly what he got.
— Traci Brimhall, “Murder Ballad in the Land of Nod” from Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod
The trick is to do it without shame. Literally anything could be cool if you just did it shamelessly
The Mother Wound.
{Jenny Slate, from Little Weirds. Me, from Clean Out Your Inbox. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945) Franny Choi, Bad Daughter. Anne Carson, Sophocles “Elektra" translation. Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless. Jeannette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Mary Oliver, When Did It Happen?}
pesto is a little green goop that makes you go crazy
pesto make u lose control
Ada Limón, “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa”
The poem will be engraved on the Clipper, along with participants' names that will be etched onto microchips mounted on the spacecraft. Together, the poem and participant’s names will travel 1.8 billion miles on Europa Clipper’s voyage to the Jupiter system.
If you would like to have your name engraved on the Clipper, you can sign up at NASA.
What if I told you David Byrne had that dog in him?
