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youre weirdly obsessed with finding meaning

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The perfect angle (dog reference video: chachamaru618) 💖

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I was wondering if you knew any tender poems about friendship? if not, that's totally cool!! :)

“[First full moon of a new and final decade]” by June Jordan

“Poem Read At Joan Mitchell’s” by Frank O’Hara

“Ode to Elliott Smith, Ending in the First Snowfall of 2003” by Hanif Abdurraqib (he once said that Frank O’Hara’s friendship poems/the way he casually mentioned his friends by name in his poems was something that meant a lot to him and I love how you can see in this poem that he did the same)

“The Orange” by Wendy Cope

“Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey” by Hayden Carruths

“acknowledgements” by Danez Smith

(if you’ve noticed that in all these poems there’s a deliberate use of their friends’ names and specific references it’s because it’s something I find very heartwarming. they’re not writing poems about something meant to be relatable they’re just writing because they love their friends and that makes me ! inside)

“To All My Friends” by May Yang

“For Tom Shaw S.S.J.E. (1945–2014)” by Mary Oliver

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maybe if i keep everything sealed and precious it will stay unchanging

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“Americans are paranoiac on the question of homosexuality. I’ve loved a few men and a few women. Love comes in very strange packages. The trick is to say yes to life.”

— James Baldwin, in James Baldwin from Another Place (1973), directed by Sedat Pakay

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joan myers brown and mary johnson photographed, circa 1949, by courtesy of mobballet

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reading a good interesting book after a horrible reading slump and suddenly you can feel the sun shining again and the sky is more beautiful than ever and birds are all singing songs to you

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ig: ma.debyc

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We must beat the Americans

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honestly really sexy of tumblr to keep follower numbers private. how many people are following me? you'll never know unless I tell you. maybe it's a million, or a thousand, or five, or maybe it's just you. maybe you're the only one here, all by yourself, unable to see if there's anyone standing next to you.

and you'd never know, because status here is based on opinion and not numbers; how popular you think someone is is a vibes-only calculation, and besides the chronological algorithms-optional feed, it's genuinely the best thing tumblr's ever done.

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love is a choice but i don’t think that makes it any less magic

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Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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Venus meets the Pleiades

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