#on growing up

[asoftepiloguemylove]

I HAVE MY MOTHER'S FACE AND HER GRIEF

Janet Fitch // Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig // Chen Chen // Youadan Teddy // Ocean Vuong Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong // Mitski Class of 2013 // 誰も知らない Nobody Knows (2004) dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda // Fatima Aamer Bilal days where my whole world is my bed. // death-born-aphrodite (tumblr) // Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Hieu Minh Nguyen Buffet Etiquette

[lovely-abeille]

a questionnaire, noor unnahar // haunted womanhood, heather havrilesky // lamb's head on a plate, viggo johansen // citizen illegal, josé olivarez // grief lessons: four plays by euripides; tr., anne carson

[maddieisnotreal]

quote by sue zhao // secrets from a girl (who’s seen it all) - lorde // extremely loud and incredible close by jonathan safran foerk // dear prudence (2010) // don’t know // noggin by john corey whaley // landslide - fleetwood mac // don’t know

[musings-n-museums]

being an immigrant child / growing up + away from your parents

"anak" by freddie aguilar // laundromat photos by @sunflowrrbabe // "everything everywhere all at once" directed by daniel Kwan, daniel Scheinert // "ladybird" directed by greta gerwig // "a letter to my 13 year old self" by laufey // "class of 2013" by mitski // "be brave be free" by zeppelinmoon

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[akindplace]

Your chances for a better life don’t end after your 20s. It’s a new beginning, that’s all. You can still chase your dreams at an older age, you can make new paths, new careers, and you will find new opportunities to improve your life. Growing old doesn’t have to mean becoming obsolete, even if society glamorizes being young. You’re not wasted or useless because you’re older. You don’t have an expiration date set to your 30s, 40s, 50s… because you’re not an object for consumption, so don’t ever let society make you believe that. You’re on this earth to live the best way you can, and you can still change your life at any age, even if other people don’t give you credit because you’re growing older.

[mad-girlslove-song]

[bidoofenergy]

happy birthday to the first queer friend i ever made i don't know where you live anymore but i still remember when you told me in the parking lot under our apartment building that you had kissed a boy and we were in one breath terrified and exhilarated

inkskinned / arthur miller / subtleferret (tiktok) / ashe vernon / dykeyphantom / lucy dacus / zinniaparadise (tiktok) / ritika jyala / rincefada (tiktok) / whitealbum

[fishingforwords]

van gogh had a point. and also depression.

fernando pessoa || emily st. john mandel, station eleven || nicholas sparks || vincent van gogh || dante alighieri || richard siken, boot theory || vincent van gogh

[myfakeplasticlove13]

Kyoto by Phoebe bridgers and father by the front bottoms on repeat all day !

[chaoscroissant]

EVEN IF IM SIXTY I WILL ALWAYS BE SEVEN

[llovelymoonn]

@heavensghost \\ julie meyerson sleepwalking

kofi

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Jennifer Lynch The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer / Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig / James Baldwin Giovanni's Room / @filmnoirsbian / Warsan Shire Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth / Fatimah Asghar How'd Your Parents Die Again? / Christopher Isherwood A Single Man / Lorde Buzzcut Season

[lovely-abeille]

HELLO i was wondering if you could help me with a webweave about home, and how it is safety, loneliness, hostility and alien all at the same time?

bonedog, eva h.d. // persepolis: the story of a childhood, marjane satrapi // changing, liv ullman // the stream of life, clarice lispector // body, adonis; tr. khaled mattawa

[maddieisnotreal]

lie with me by philippe besson // that girl has love - rooney // unknown // cigarette daydreams - cage the elephant // the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky // nothing new - taylor swift, ft phoebe bridgers // one tree hill // editors letter by tavi gevinson // betty - taylor swift

[musings-n-museums]

i don't know which one feels more like home. (the uncertainty or the chaos)

fireworks by jaedha godwin, pinterest // split by niki // post by @haykhighland (infinite thanks for letting me use your post // special by sza // images from pinterest // post-glacial by tori mccandless // "saga (i won't forget you when i'm gone)", andrei voznesensk - translated by @metamorphesque // split by niki // image from pinterest

[akindplace]

The biggest trap of your teens and early 20s is to believe that any given situation is absolute, and that things will remain the same forever™️. I’m not blaming anyone for this because when we first experience love and grief and sorrow and anxiety it sure feels like a lot to process and it’s okay to be overwhelmed but I promise things can and will change.

Maybe your first love won’t last forever, maybe it shouldn’t last forever, but your first heartbreak won’t last forever either. Pain has its way of being so powerful that it makes us doubt that we could ever have a different future where pain isn’t prevalent and this feeling might make us just want to give up. But you will find new joy too. Again and again. You just have to stick around to find it. You will start over. Again and again. You’re not stuck and this is not the end. Maybe you should explore life and what it provides you, good and bad, knowing that in the transitional nature of things, nothing lasts forever, and it can be very sad when things end, but it can also be for the better. No feeling is final, meaning that even though joy didn’t last forever, neither will your pain. Coming from a person in their late 20s who fell into the trap of believing certain things would last forever even though she was only taking her first steps in life, please believe that you will find your answers, you will learn to let go, you will experience beautiful things in life again. You just have to take my hand and stick around long enough to find them. So please, do.