thomas campbell // suzanne collins, gregor and the code of claw // czesław miłosz, the issa valley // vladimir nabokov // antonio porchia // l.m. montgomery, the story girl
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."
what is love if not a repetition of history.
goodbye - bo burnham/unknown/goodbye - bo burnham/goodbye - bo burnham/unknown/unknown/frank kafka/goodbye - bo burnham/holly havrilesky/unknown/unknown/unknown/goodbye - bo burnham
Amal El-Mohtar, from The Honey Month; “Day 27: Leatherwood Honey”
[Text ID; “I value you. I will love you hard and strong because I suffer in loving you, and will make you suffer with me.”]
“They said that it takes one to know one. The reason I can point out a person’s evil nature is because I have that same evil nature within me.”
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Dazai Osamu, “A New Hamlet”
musings on June
1.anne sexton (“the truth the dead know”), 2. anne sexton (“suicide note poem”), 3. mary oliver (“august”), 4. l.m. montgomery (“anne of the island”), 5. morgan parker (“the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth”), 6. found poems: sylvia plath / peter k. steinberg (“percy key among the narcissi”) artwork by hugo grenville
buy me a coffee
“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)
Laodamia, George William Joy
ANNIE MURPHY as Ruth Brenner in RUSSIAN DOLL - 2.02 “Coney Island Baby”