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Lure of the Nymph (1878) by Wilhelm Kray

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poetry is wild because in any given collection 30% of it will make you feel nothing, 60% will make you feel varying levels of confused and curious, and the other 10% will crack open your brain like an egg and reveal new truths about the human condition

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has anyone else been getting stupider and worse or is it just me

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1543 abdominal viscera

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stop asking me wyd i’m literally always thinking about love and how it touches every aspect of the human experience

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Errol Le Cain - illustration of ‘Thorn Rose’, a version of Sleeping Beauty.

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poetry is wild because in any given collection 30% of it will make you feel nothing, 60% will make you feel varying levels of confused and curious, and the other 10% will crack open your brain like an egg and reveal new truths about the human condition

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be busy. busy not checking messages. busy reading those books you never started or finished. busy having a good night of sleep. busy taking care of yourself and your skin. busy moving your body. busy helping your community. busy reflecting on your life and what you can improve. busy doing things aside from the capitalistic viewpoint of “productivity.” busy slowing down.

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imagining an alternate timeline where shakespeare wrote a play about king arthur. we would be so unwell

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Saint Sebastian (c.1660, oil on canvas) | Mattia Preti

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Me going to sleep knowing that there's so much stuff to learn in the world and it doesn't matter if I fail at first, eventually I'll get there.

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I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

-Sylvia Plath

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One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.

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Baldur's Gate III dev. Larian Studios // "Road to Hell" - Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell // Oresteia, Robert Icke adapted from Aeschylus // Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ed. Carmen Maria Machado // "The Snail and the Rosebush," Hans Christian Andersen trans. Jean Hersholt // "cardigan," Taylor Swift // Disco Elysium dev. ZA/UM // Revenge of the Sith [novelization], Matthew Stover // Wolf in White Van, John Darnielle // "hoax," Taylor Swift // "Road to Hell (Reprise)" - Hadestown // Disco Elysium // "The Gods Show Up," Michael Kinnucan // Pathologic 2: The Marble Nest dev. Ice-Pick Lodge // Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard // "Planet of Love," Richard Siken // Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead // Preface to Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Anne Carson // Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures, Stephen Fry // H of H Playbook, Anne Carson // wikipedia - "prophetic perfect tense" // "Ptolemaea," Ethel Cain // "The Worm King's Lullaby," Richard Siken // Introduction to The Iliad, Homer trans. Emily Wilson // An Iliad, Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare (based on Homer's The Iliad, trans. Robert Fagles) // Corpus Christi, Terrence McNally // Baldur's Gate III - Karlach origin playthrough unique epilogue // [photo from "Doubt Comes In" - Hadestown] // "Road to Hell (Reprise)" - Hadestown

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"The gods' chosen" "the gods' champion" no that's the god's little wind up toy. The gods' chew toy. The gods' favorite barbie doll

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Windflowers by John William Waterhouse, 1903