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I wanted to wake up and find that I was five years old and my parents and neighbors would say, “My, my, what an imagination.” I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. I wanted to be untouchable and have no need…

— David Wojnarowicz

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ask polly i’m broke and mostly friendless, and i’ve wasted my whole life

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kurt vonnegut, being good at things is not the point of doing them.

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I MISS A LOVE I NEVER HAD; ON LONGING

unknown // haruki murakami // unknown // lucille clifton // emily palermo // mahmoud darwish // frank o’hara.

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One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official

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"Failing Better: A Conversation with Ocean Vuong" interviewed by Viet Thanh Nguyen for LA Review of Books (2019) [ID'd]

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angel wings sterling silver ring by middaia ⋆

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“Platonic love is vital, essential, and perhaps the one thing left in this wretched landscape that could save us all for a little bit longer than we deserve. I love my friends even when I don’t tell them enough. I have crawled from the wreckage of enough heartbreak to know who will still be standing when I emerge and who won’t, and I hold those still standing close to me.”

— Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, “Carly Rae Jepsen and the Kingdom of Desire” in MTV

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The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin

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real men - mitski // roberto ferri // deer on the side of an american highway - devin kelly // preliminary study for the kiss - edvard munch // the islands, 1961 - victoria chang // roberto ferri // stigmata: escaping texts - hélène cixous // de lijken van de gebroeders De Witt - jan de baen // punished body - silas denver melvin, @sweatermuppet

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The Dyke Project manifesto printed on the back of estradiol and testogel boxes

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The Places of Marguerite Duras (Michelle Porte, 1976)

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Clarice Lispector — An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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'Rainbow pool' at Congaree National Park - result of decaying vegetation, especially cypress cones and needles, that release their natural oils

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A pink lustre mug with a ship and a poem, England, c. 1840

When riding o'er, the mountain wave. The Hardy, Sailor, ever brave. He laughs at danger, smiles at fate. And risks his life, to save his mate.

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