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1. A Primer for the Small Weird Loves - Richard Siken / 2. The Crane Wife - CJ Hauser / 3. Automat - Edward Hopper / 4. Red Doc> - Anne Carson / 5. Melancholy - Edvard Munch / 6. The Village (2004) / 7. So We Must Meet Apart - Gabrielle Bates and Jennifer S. Cheng

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the miracle of being here

invitation, mary oliver// @arthoesunshine // when death comes, mary oliver//to be alive, gregory ott// the dead poets society(1989), quote: walden, henry david thoreau// joseph campbell// the aeneid, virgil// @babyangel-jpg // @rawjoy //sweet, charles bukowski// that it will never come again, emily dickinson// bjenny montero// ? // ? // moments, mary oliver// madness a bipolar life, marya hornbacher// wild geese, mary oliver// letters to a young poet, rainer maria rilke// on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong// @ashstfu // i thought on his desire for three days, linda gregg

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i swear it is physically impossible for me to read a mary oliver quote without immediately having to hold back tears. "you do not have to be good" and "someone i loved once gave me a box of darkness. it took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift" and "i don't want to end up having simply visited this world" and "to love what is mortal against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go" and "it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world" and oh fuck it's happening again

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@the2headedcalf / On Love, Alain de Botton /  @tilthat / Céline Sciamma / Twitter: Nightshiftmp3 / Twitter: Thepartypope / Portrait of a Lady on Fire / The Clean House, Sarah Ruhl / The History of the Band-Aid / weird-facts.org / @roses–and–rue

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Richard Siken, Boot Theory // Frank Bidart, The War of Vaslav Nijinsky // astralcorbozo on TikTok // Mary Herbert, A Long Time in the Desert // Dan Deacon, When I Was Done Dying

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No Ivan in season two 😭

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Some of my moves… are also hers.

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Turning Red really said "you have the right to explore and embrace your identity especially as a teenager when it's the most important and you can't let family hinder or take it away from you at the risk of losing their validation. Also turning into a giant red panda is awesome."

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Okay I’m not Asian and I’m not a child of Asian parents, but I fully started crying at “I see you Meimei. You try to make everyone happy, but you are so hard on yourself. And if I taught you that… I’m sorry.”

Because to be able to hear that from your mom, the person you’ve spent your life trying to make proud of you, is so validating.

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"Ming Lee put a lot of pressure and smothered Mei to the point she was terrified of ever making a mistake, getting a bad grade or disappointing her in any way"

And

"There was not a single doubt or implication that Ming Lee didn't love her family. She loved Mei more than anything in the world and constantly showed it."

Are statements that can and should co-exist.

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when richard siken said “you’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him” and when mitski said “you’re in the house and I am here in the car ‘cause I just need a quiet place where I can scream how I love you” and when taylor swift said “you almost ran the red ‘cause you were looking over at me” and when lorde said “now we sit in your car and our love is a ghost well i guess i should go”

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SEX EDUCATION(2019-)  | Season 3

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thinking about “you haven’t met all the people who will love you” and like!!! you also haven’t found all the things that will make you happy!!!! there will always be new authors and musicians and artists whose work you will one day discover and love!!!! there will always be new hobbies and skills for you to learn and feel fulfilled by!!! there will always be new things around the corner that will bring sudden and unexpected happiness!!!!!!!!!!!

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His best friend is a duck

(via)

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“Well, of course I’ve tried lavender. And pulling my memory out, ribbonlike and dripping. And shrieking into my pillow. And writing the poems. And making more friends. And baking warm brown cookies. And therapy. And intimacy. And pictures of rainbows. And all of the movies about lovers and the terrible things they do to each other. And watching the ones in other languages. And leaving the subtitles off. And listening to the language. And forgetting my name. And feeling the dirt on my skin. And screaming in the shower. And changing my shampoo. And living alone. And cutting my hair. And buying a turtle. And petting the cat. And traveling. And writing more poems. And touching a different body. And digging a grave. And digging a grave. Of course, I’ve tried it. Of course I have.”

— september is a weary month, yasmin belkhyr (via wildflowerveins)

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here’s some more playlists you didn’t ask for but are filled with music you need in your life

traveling hipster: indie essentials for any road trip

sad words soft music: i may be sad, but do you see my outfit 

vibes: a 90′s anime soundtrack 

roadie: late night drives and pop music

she really did that: bad ass songs by bad ass women

in this house, we respect bops: it was 3 am, i was sleep deprived and i was feeling nostalgic

pt. I of this post

pt. III of this post