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summer is dense this year. i feel it between my teeth. there is a certain realness attributed to the self for the very first time. what to do with this? what to do when you are on the cusp of no longer being fake.

in these heady days i will finish an album with some of my very best friends. i will grin and i will cry and i will laugh around fires with those i hold dear. we will play house and talk about everything we will do together some day. i will love and be loved in return.

there is nothing other than this. there is nothing other than this.

you are real now. game on.

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Anne Carson, from Glass, Irony and God

[Text ID: I felt as if the sky was torn off my life.]

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so real

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it's encouraging to be around people who imagine a bigger life for themselves, whose only desire is to collaborate harmoniously with others, see opportunity instead of obstacle, people who remind you that life is about seeing how far you can go and how much fun you can have...real life enjoyers

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Angela Carter, from a poem titled "Unicorn", featured in Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter

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DON’T YOU REALIZE OUR BODIES COULD FALL APART AT ANY SECOND?

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we have got to start putting gargoyles on buildings again

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don’t forget that it’s your life. it’s not school’s life, it’s not work’s life, it’s not your family or your partner’s life—it’s perpetually your life, for better or worse. what do you want from this life? forget happy, what motivates you to live? why are you here?

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Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that

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a lot of loving and being loved by people is recognizing when they're sincerely trying to help or comfort you even if their words are clunky and unhelpful at best and holding onto the sentiment that they are trying to reach for you at all. and a lot of the time that has to be enough because it's all you're going to get

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I’ve been reading Dracula for the first time, im about halfway through, here’s my take on it so far

The polycule learns about monster hunting

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first person i think i was ever truly truly into in a real way is now my loving partner whom i adore and get to spend time with and all my friends also love and integrates into my life so well and i share passions and goals with #awesome #winner

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sorry i'm being an absent friend i'm being an absent self too

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healing happens in circles, not lines. you will return to old places with new eyes.

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they should invent a medicine that makes the aching jagged wound in your soul close

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long shower the morning after a campfire feels like being reborn