strange fruit

Marius Boekhorst

the personification of death being portrayed as deeply kind in fiction is something that reduces me to tears every single time

it’s 12am. it’s not peak tumblr hours. nobody will see this. but I decided to say some super controversial things because something someone said annoyed me.

1) love from sources other than romantic love is not more fulfilling. love from all sources is equally fulfilling in different ways.

2) there’s also overlap. how different from familial love is romantic love? is platonic love? don’t you have friends you love like family? don’t you plan to start a family with your partner?

3) this is the most controversial opinion of all. love is simply an emotion. and like all other emotions, it can be regulated. therefore, love in itself is not painful. you can have a passionate healthy love that isn’t obsessive and overwhelming. you can practice independence and self-care with any relationship. you can practice boundaries. you can be interdependent instead of codependent.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Don’t let anybody save you for later.

Villa Cimbrone, Ravello, Italy, photo by Luigi Tramontano

LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS

our attachment to the moon reveals our human desire for more. we keep searching and reaching for the mysterious, the unknown, the unattainable, because in our nature our souls belong to somewhere else and deep in us, we know.

My counselor told me “you’ve drawn the curtain around your soul, and blanketed your heart. You’re closed off to the world, how do you expect people to love you, if they can’t see you?”

I’m still stuck in his words.

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

@ monique yvonne

honestly no matter what they say u can feel in ur gut when someone doesn’t truly care about u

perhaps love is defined by the ability to put your broken pieces back together into something stronger and more beautiful. love says, "i see your sorrows, your flaws and your dark sides, but in them i also see the ability and potential to heal and to grow - to be reborn no matter how many times it takes, and i am willing to stick around you before it, during it and every day after it"

you and I. without an end — together?