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ON PURPOSE, I'M GOING TO LOVE YOU ON PURPOSE

Jenny Slate // Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue // Pleiades, Anne Carson // Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // @oriley42 and @earth167 (and a half) on Tumblr // Jodi Picoult from The Book Of Two Ways // The Night Vale, Episode 100, The Toast // Adam Melchor, I Choose You // Kierston White, The Chaos of Stars

maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story 𓆜 𓆝

the graveyard book, neil gaiman / champion, marie lu / @nicolezaridze (website here) / another night on mars, the maine / high all the time, the neighbourhood / aphrodite made me do it, trista mateer / quote: winnie-the-pooh, a.a. milne, image: community (2009-2015); s3e14 "pillows and blankets" [art: @maudlincat] / dearalexandra (deactivated) / the circus, olivia levez / i'll give you the sun, jandy nelson

edit: the troy & abed quote photo was made by @maudlincat !!

image descriptions below the cut

1. Black text on a yellow background reads, "You're my friend. So you can't be a stranger."

2. Black text on a light grey background reads, "Someday, perhaps in the far and distant future, we'll find each other again."

3. A digital drawing of three blue houses with yellow windows on a black background. One house is in the top right corner, the second is in the middle left, and the third is at the center bottom of the image. Around the houses are various illustrations of blue clouds and green trees. To the left of the house in the top right corner, there is a yellow crescent moon with one eye and blue arms holding the leaves of a tree. There are orange outlines of two people walking away from each other, one in the top left corner and the other on the right, near the bottom. In the center of the image, black text in four yellow bubbles reads, in all caps, "We can go on a walk tomorrow, / or we can catch up in a year / I'll see you when I'll see you, / but until then, take care"

4. Black text with grey highlight on a white background reads, "What's another night on Mars? / With friends like ours / Anywhere is home"

5. Dark blue text on a medium blue background reads, "You're my best friend, I'll love you forever"

6. Blue text with yellow highlight on a white background reads, "What brings us together will always be more powerful than what keeps us apart."

7. A scene from the TV series "Community." A photograph of two young men, Abed Nadir and Troy Barnes, on the cover of a handmade yellow booklet tied together with red string. Abed and Troy are standing side-by-side and smiling. Troy has his hand on Abed's shoulder. Abed is wearing light green pyjamas with various spacecraft on them. Troy is wearing an orange shirt with a blue collar. Orange handwriting on the cover, above the photograph, reads, "Friendship of the year (again)!" Black text on a white background has been edited onto the bottom left corner of the image. The text reads, ""We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?" / "Even longer.""

8. Black text on a white background reads, "To those who have already passed through my life and to those who eventually will: I love you. I miss you. The back door will always be unlocked if you ever feel like coming home."

9. Blue text on a white background reads, "I want you to know that there's always a home for you here."

“Oh the bitten mouth, oh the kissed limbs, oh the hungering teeth, oh the entwined bodies.”

— Pablo Neruda, from “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair” published c. 1924

Jenny Slate, On Love, Loneliness, & Giant Dogs

Melissa Febos, Abandon Me

there is this horror at being left behind

starting line, luke hemmings / fleabag (2016-2019); s1e6 "episode #1.6" / working for the knife, mitski / x / it chooses you, miranda july / ryan o'connell / x / via flickr / aristos the musical / x / the hours, michael cunningham

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1. Black text highlighted in grey on a white background reads, "I wake up every morning with the years ticking by / I'm missing all these memories, maybe they were never mine / I feel the walls are closing / I'm running out of time / I think I missed the gun at the starting line".

2. Frame from the TV series "Fleabag." A woman with short, brown hair is sitting at a restaurant table in front of a window. She has tears in her eyes. Text at the bottom of the frame reads, "Either everyone feels like this a little bit and they’re just not talking about it or I am completely alone. Which isn’t fucking funny."

3. Black text on a white background reads, "I always knew the world moves on / I just didn't know it would go without me".

4. An empty playground structure illuminated at night, in front of an open field and the starry night sky.

5. Text on a grey background reads, in all caps, "all I ever really want to know is / [white text on a blue background] how other people are making it through life. / where do they put their body, hour by hour, / and how do they cope inside of it".

6. Black text on a white paper background reads, "about how you feel more and more alienated from your friends each passing day and you're not sure how to fix it. It seems like everyone is just better at living than you are."

7. Blurry and grainy greyscale image of silhouetted people walking.

8. Worm's-eye view image of two silhouetted people holding hands while scuba diving. Black text on a white background in the top left and bottom right corners of the image reads, "I often wonder if life is easier for other people or they're just better at faking it".

9. Black text on a white background reads, "[Patroclus]: Remember what you once said about growing up? How it's like running after someone, but always falling behind?"

10. Text on a white background. Black text reads, "he was more lonely than the rest of his friends, he thought." Blue text reads, "but that's just not something that you talk about."

“All you do is think. Because all you do is think, you’ve constructed two separate worlds—one inside your head and one outside. Just the fact that you tolerate this enormous dissonance—why, that’s a great intangible failure already.”

—

Natsume Sōseki, And Then

Tuscany, Italy

(via)

“I am endlessly afraid of people. I am continually awed by them. When people bow to me only out of formality, I think to myself that it is a bow from the heart, and immediately become ecstatic, even with a touch of madness. I feel like I have to pay them back for their expectations, so I act like a hero even though I don’t truly feel anything, and I can’t get things back to normal, and the end result is that everyone thinks me a fool for it.”

—

Dazai Osamu, “A New Hamlet”

A Moment of Romance (1990) directed by Benny Chan

Jeffrey Eugenides, from “The Virgin Suicides”

Idk if u write, but what would u recommend to a young writer who’s not yet found her own ‘tone’ / voice or character in writing. What I mean is, I love writing… every time I read a certain author I then adopt their pen’s character, I write like them. If I read Plath I’ll go write like her bc I’m inspired. If I read Dostoevsky I’ll go write like him. Idk if it’s necessarily bad bc I think it’s pretty cool to achieve such voices (if they r achieved indeed) or should I just try to find mine? & How?

Hi anon, yes I write but only for myself. It's a sort of therapy for me, I'm definitely not a good writer. So maybe I'm not the right person to answer this question. Anyway, in your message you mentioned Plath and Dostoevsky, I think it's pretty normal to mistake the big impact that this artists can have on you and on your soul with your conviction that you are "copying" them. You already have your voice, it's the way you see the world, the way you perceive things, the way you talk in your head ― the language you speak to yourself everyday.

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

she called herself "unimaginative". She tormented herself with this thoughts. It's just impossible to believe for us, but she was just like you, just like us.

Don't give up🤍

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

Greg Sellers, Undone Like Her Hair Come Evening, 10 May 2022

Café Scene - Nick Alm

Nick Alm     Undressed Blonde   2012

Supporter, Nick Alm, 2016

“the morning blueness, chaste, not yet dried of its nighttime tears…”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (trans. Natasha Randall)

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[text ID: I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."]

Salman Toor, Three Friends in a Cab, 16 x 20 inches, 2021

from Loneliness: coping with the gap where friends used to be by Olivia Laing for The Guardian

[Text ID: Last night, I ate dinner with my friend Jenny. In real life, on a warm London evening, forking up aubergine from the same plate. We laughed, shared family news, told each other the things we’d been worrying over. At home, alone in my study, they’d felt insurmountable, a sign that something was irredeemably wrong with me. Under the gentle scrutiny of my friend, they diminished to a normal size: just the grit of everyday traffic with other humans. I walked home feeling buoyant, nearly invincible. I need my friends. I bet you need yours.]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay; "Interim"

[Text ID: “part of your heart / Aches in my breast; part of my heart lies chilled / In the damp earth with you. I have been torn / In two, and suffer for the rest of me.”]

“We dug a heart out of a heart and our mutual pain molded us into lovers in the evening fires of autumn.”

— Jovan Kotevski, from Love and Death; The Fourth Letter; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

“and you were gazing at me, more than gazing — my gaze was dreaming you, and yours was dreaming me.”

— Pedro Salinas, from “Tell me”; To Live In Pronouns: Selected Love Poems (tr. by Edith Helman & Norma Farber)

“I have a list in my head of all the feelings I still want to feel before I die. And you have ticked so many things off that list.”

— Iain Thomas (via quotemadness)