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saying your names, richard siken

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remember the time i thought i was going to come back from a tumblr hiatus, two years ago? aha. me too 

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I’m upset because I want to change the world but the world is too big and people are too mean

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2018 revival

1. if you’re looking for something, it’s probably gone. 98% of posts dating back from 2011 (seriously, yes. 2011) have been cleaned out

2. maybe this is the official announcement that hiatus is over

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Memento mori: (Latin: "remember (that you have) to die”) The medieval Latin theory and practice of reflection on mortality, especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits.

Mono no aware (物の哀れ): (Japanese: “the sensitivity to ephemera”) The awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.

L’appel du vide: (French: “call of the void”) The psychological phenomenon in which people, with no desire to die, find themselves faced with a steep cliff and experience a strong desire to leap.

Amor fati: (Latin: “the love of one’s fate”) An attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one’s life, including suffering and loss, as good; or, at the very least, necessary.

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I’m in love with dead memories.

Six Word Story #11 (via 00cm)

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After love, no one is what they were before.

Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

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Virgo symbolizes depths, darkness, quiet and warmth; it is the valley of deep experience wherein secrets are discovered and eventually “brought to light”; it is the place of slow, gentle and yet powerful crises and periodic developments which take place in the dark and yet which lead to light.

Alice Bailey

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(งツ)ว on my way to fuck things up

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whenever I’ve had a particularly bad day my friend will ask me what my favourite colour is because he knows that looking for the exact photo of the colour will distract me from whatever shitty thing happened that day

I hope you all have someone like this in your life

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they call me the white one. the one that rose after betrayl. they have songs of my arrival and threats within the streets. there is no middle ground. they call me the white one, but i was reborn from darkness, and i will not be underestimated again

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we ran and built this world ourselves. we swear we're nothing like our parents

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he sees a world turned against him but all i see is a great perhaps i can twirl locks of her hair between my fingers and i can see the stars all day long - the world is not against us. its with us

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au aesthetics, 2/?

are you a good witch? or a bad witch?

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I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.

Patroclus from The Song of Achilles (via spirallingwords)

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The Signs as Historical Women

Aries: Joan of Arc; rebellious and undaunted Taurus: Rosa Parks; defiant and rightfully stubborn Gemini: Sappho; poetically shed light on divergent sexualities Cancer: Frida Kahlo; artistic and expressive Leo: Queen Elizabeth; regal and independent Virgo: Marilyn Monroe; beautiful and inspiring Libra: Harriet Tubman; passionate for equality Scorpio: Mata Hari; pridefully owned her sexuality Sagittarius: Cleopatra; clever, ambitious, risk-taker Capricorn: Princess Diana; respectfully kind and charitable Aquarius: Amelia Earhart; fearless and adventurous Pisces: Malala Yousafzai; soft spoken, but has something important to say