( some see a pen, i see a harpoon )

— W.S. Merwin, Sight (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

the title of the last song you listened to is the epitaph on your tombstone

kicking a hornets nest.

2024 goals:

Sylvia Plath records her Christmas presents for 1947

florence welch was right, it picks me up puts me down chews me up spits me out a hundred times a day picks me up puts me down i'm always running from something i push it back but it keeps on coming and being clever never got me very far

lol i hate today’s era of absolutely zero nuance takes. a friend didn’t behave exactly as you’d wanted them to? cut them off. a guy didn’t text you back instantly bc he has his own life? he’s just giving you breadcrumbs. doing something makes you uncomfortable? don’t do it anymore. someone isn’t instantly available for you? disinterest. just absolutist statements that often don’t apply to the multilayer situations of everyday life. like. stop. literally just stop it

— helga floros, from “Insomnia,” published in Occulum (via lifeinpoetry)

Natalie Barney, in a letter to Liane de Pougy, c. 1899 (via dearestvita)

Hala Alyan, from “Honeymoon,” The Twenty-Ninth Year (via lifeinpoetry)

— Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, from “Hard on for Love,” released c. 1986

Sometimes I see a girl’s shoulders/collarbone area and I’m suddenly possessed by the spirit of a 19th century lesbian first seeing another girl removing her dress to reveal pantaloons and corset in the dorms at the all-girls boarding school her parents sent her to so she may be trained in proper etiquette

Not very good at this whole subtle thing, are you? The Man From Uncle (2015) Dir. Guy Ritchie

Christopher McKenney

Ophelia Coming Out Of Her River To Shame Hamlet

Ophelia Coming Out Of Her River To Straight Up Murder Hamlet

Ophelia Aggressively Introducing Hamlet To Her River