From The Beginning: 1) From Michelle Lyn King’s Taylor Swift Youtube Videos  2) Sarah Nicole Prickett 3)

“call me medusa for my monstrosity is not mine to bear, but yours to fear.”

— a.c  (via onceuponapenis)

can you do a web weaving about ocean/sea being metaphors for love?

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

SEAY, Love Is The Ocean

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Edmund Dulac, ‘The Little Mermaid Saved The Prince’, from The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

Bobby Darin, Beyond The Sea

Nikos Kazantzakis in a letter to Harilaos Stefanidis, written c. June 1924

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Uncle Yanco (1967) dir. Agnes Varda

Veronica Rossi, Through the Ever Night

The Kooks, Seaside

Vincent van Gogh, from The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

why is love ordinary and cruel?

everything I remember of him could belong to any woman who fell in love with any man in this city.

— Gwen Benaway, from day/break

Unrequited love

“I am sorry my clutch is all tendon and no discipline: the heart is a severed kind of muscle and alone. I can hear yours in your room. I hear mine in another room. In another’s.”

from “Epithalament” by Brenda Shaughnessy

"i loved my friend" by langston hughes // on earth we're briefly gorgeous, written by ocean vuong // scott street by phoebe bridgers // unknown painting // "the worm king's lullaby" from war of the foxes by richard siken // only friends by wallows // hope ur ok by olivia rodrigo // wish you were here by pink floyd // ghost photograph by angela deane // "thanksgiving 2006" from night sky with exit wounds by ocean vuong // dear friend by dayglow // the night we met by lord huron and phoebe bridgers // the archer by taylor swift // my buddy by chet baker // ghosting by txt // fading by flatsound // miserable lie by the smiths // bad friend by rina sawayama // haunted by dean gioia // hour of the wolf by surf curse // the last days of judas iscariot, written by stephen adly guirgis

sorry to chime in but thought i’d bring up ada limón’s someplace like montana where she also calls her friend by the name - not as blatantly about friendship, but it is about making plans/dreams with friends even if you end up in different paths. one of my favourite poems ever <3

YES i love this poem too!!! the ending especially made me go ! the first time i read it. to paraphrase ada limón i love the way people love <3

Ok girlies time for our prescription 1-2 hour walk, imagine we r all in line like Madeline

[ID: excerpt from The gender of sound, Anne Carson

“Putting a door on the female mouth as been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.”

poetry line by Meggie Royer @writingsforwinter

“A woman’s first blood doesn’t come from between her legs but from biting her tongue.”

excerpt from Hunger makes me, Jess Zimmerman

“The low-maintenance woman, the ideal woman, has no appetite. This is not to say that she refuses food, sex, romance, emotional effort; to refuse is petulant, which is ironically more demanding. The woman without appetite politely finishes what’s on her plate, and declines seconds. She is satisfied and satisfiable.”

excerpt from The unruly woman: Gender & the genres of laughter, Kathleen Rowe

“…voices in any culture that are not meant to be heard are perceived as loud when they do speak, regardless of their decibel level.”] 💔