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genuinely not saying this as a hater but as a mamaposting appreciator: the mamaposting doesn't have to use the "let's ____ with mama" formula. we forget that one of the original mama posts just said "my luminous mama" like you can take the mamapost anywhere. you can open your heart to all possibilities through mama. you can find whimsy in the innumerable qualities of mama

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what’s it called when you’re so disconnected from reality that cold water doesn’t feel like anything and you can barely taste food anymore

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craving a little moonlight with you.

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Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

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Joseph Brodsky, from The Selected Poems of Joseph Brodsky; "A Song,"

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Everytime I read Frankenstein, the same line makes me put the book down and stare at the wall. It’s my favorite line in the book; it has its own highlighter color in my annotations. The first time I read it, I literally detoured after my last class just to tell my lit teacher how much I liked the line because I couldn’t wait until second period the next day. Here’s the line:

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

This is said by the creature. He wanted to live. He wanted to live life so badly even though he had had such a difficult one. He still loved the song of the birds and the smell of the flowers and the joy in the world even if he never got to truly experience that joy. I just. AHHHH.

He wanted to fight for a life he never got to live.

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everyone make sure to set out cheese & crackers for neil tonight <3

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Dirt Dykes, Leeds, UK, 2022

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we'll jump off that bridge when we get to it

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Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath; "On The Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad,"

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WHEREVER YOU ARE I LOVE YOU AND TAKE YOUR TIME — via substack

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(repeated like a mantra while rubbing my temples) i will stay silly and not allow the world to make me bitter and cruel. i will stay silly and not allow the world to make me bitter and cruel. i wi

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call my girl the business of misery the way she takes it from the top

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If you don’t let go of your prejudices and past grudges, your heart won’t blossom. 2013 is coming, let’s make a change. We only have one planet so let’s show each other some kindness.

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Either way, an Orpheus who didn't turn is an Orpheus who never loved Eurydice at all.