#on desire

[saltair-and-palemoonlight]

Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.

@dog-teeth/nobody - mitski/@ lilrainpoety on instagram/little weirds - jenny slate/@blossomfully/@chaandajaan/strawberry blond - mitski/wishbone - richard siken/salt - salma deera/unable to find a source/mia hollow/the unabridged journals of sylvia plath/nobody - mitski/crush - richard siken

[typewriter-worries]

desire is suffering

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘Dream Reveals in Neon the Great Addictions, Frank Bidart ( @wahabibi ) | Dante and Virgil in Hell, William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Vestiges, Ángel García | Blasphemia, Eliran Kantor | So We Must Meet Apart, Jennifer S. Cheng ( @yoursoethereal ) | Prigione di Lacrime, Roberto Ferri | Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Sunday, November 4th, Simone de Beauvoir ( @theoptia ) | Ludwig Drahosch | War of the Foxes, Richard Siken ( @elfreys )

[llovelymoonn]

on longing

kim addonizio what is this thing called love: poems: “blues for roberto” (via @fawnaura​) \\ ernest hemingway the complete works: “the old man and the sea” \\ adonis selected poems (tr. khaled mattawa) \\ sylvia plath the unabridged journals of sylvia plath, 1950-1962 \\ vladimir nabokov in a letter to his wife véra (14 july 1926) \\ hillary gravendyk quarrel (via @typewriter-worries​) \\ dorothy strachey olivia (1949) \\ sappho from anne carson’s if not, winter: fragments of sappho (via @theoptia​) \\ kim addonizio lucifer at the starlite (via @typewriter-worries​)

kofi

[akindplace]

I think when you grow up lacking material things, lacking affection or any form of stability, you end up saving everything for later in a constant fear of running out or you end up being so ashamed of asking people for help, for a job, for any kindness and then ending up being denied, that you don’t dare asking, even if you have financial stability and good relationships in the present as an adult. You end up self-sabotaging in fear of what it might mean to desire something and not have it. The more you want, the more you abstain and the bigger that sort of empty craving gets. Don’t feel guilty for the seemingly enormity of your own needs, because the more you abstain from them, the bigger they get. Don’t let your soul starve. Don’t let yourself run on empty. Don’t let the emptiness grow into a pit. Don’t save happiness for later or for when you “become” a worthy person - you don’t need to earn every little thing, you don’t have to hurt yourself to be worthy of some soothing or any help.

[tamsoj]

Charles Bukowski, "note for my wall," from Slouching toward Nirvana: new poems

[assisteddogma]

teething

bones and all (luca guadagnino, 2022) / wolf or-7, natalie diaz / where it begins, erica jong / perhaps the world ends here, joy harjo / cody allen / our beautiful life when its full with shrieks, christopher citro / sierra mulder

[moonstoast]

and while i’m in this body, i want somebody to want

litany in which certain things are crossed out by richard siken // ? // summer by safia elhillo // blood wedding and yerma by federico garcia lorca // holly warburton // little beast by richard siken // scene of deluge by joseph-désiré court // the angel experiment by james patterson // when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities by chen chen // moon song by phoebe bridgers

[chaoscroissant]

CAN WE BE OUSTIDE MY HEAD? forbidden fantasy

[myfakeplasticlove13]

Love as religion

[judas-redeemed]

alright obviously cannibalism as a way of saying i want you so bad i'm going to eat you hits every time, but for me the other side always hits so much harder. i trust you with my life enough that it's okay if you're the one to end it? absolute banger. i never want to be apart from you so i'll let you physically consume me so i remain inside you? literally unmatched. i would do anything for you, so let me be the thing that sustains you? oh my GOD i need to lie down for the next 8 years i'm actually going insane.

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on fire and desire

ana kennedy i know you're not the one i'm looking for, but i am so cold and a fire is a fire // Yves Olade Bloodsport (via @sorryforthebonyelbows) // unknown // Joan Crawford (via @samtastic) // unknown // Hozier Would That I // Federico García Lorca Blood Wedding and Yerma

[a-study-in-bullshit]

want vs need

[ixioideae-letters]

desire chokes me like i wish your hand did 

stephanie valente // hélène cixous // florence and the machine // ratsandlilies // jen mazza // richard siken // jamaal may // ada limón // serge marshennikov // ron hicks // henry rollins //  vàzaki nada // andre kohn // mitski // trista mateer // louise glück // taylor swift // the smiths // svetlana tartakovska // holly black

[llovelymoonn]

i’ve got desire between my teeth

beau taplin \\ nichole rae klein it hurts and i’m lonely \\ richard siken dirty valentine \\ haruki murakami norwegian wood (via @strykerlancer​) \\ via @priveparticulier​ \\ david bottoms slow nights on the bass boat

buy me a chai latte

[sentientsky]

Crowley post-divorce vibes

“Woke Up New”, The Mountain Goats / “In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive”, Clementine von Radics / “Litany in Which Certain Things are Crossed Out”, Richard Siken / “I’m Your Man”, Mitski / Excerpt from The Queen Below, Brittany Smith / unknown

[diaryofastudent]

On loneliness.

1. jenny slate | 2. igor moritz | 3. via @gaycommunist | 4. via @/snail paw on twitter | 5. via @meanwhilepoetry | 6. hold me back (2020) '私をくいとめて® dir. akiko ohku | 7. via @fairycosmos | 8. edward hopper | 9. shirley jackson, the haunting of hill house | 10. holly warburton