#on tenderness

[lamentofspring]

all of us strangers (2023), adam & harry / portrait of a boy with grief, wale ayinla / sonnet of the wreath of roses, federico garcia lorca / an oresteia, anne carson / dancing with ghosts, hania rani & patrick wilson / every poem is a child of love, marina tsvetaeva / meditation: my grief, the sun, sanna wani

[myfakeplasticlove13]

On lovers and names

[waitinqroom]

we are breaking, because i am tender. mitski / on earth we’re briefly gorgeous - ocean vuong / umarmung - wilhelm list / augusten burroughs/ tenderness and love - joseph lorusso / soren - beabadobee/ wishbone - richard siken / waiting room - phoebe bridgers / anne magill

[kaalbela]

Bikramjit Bose

[petaltexturedskies]

Vita Sackville-West, from a diary entry featured in “the selected writings”

[soircieres]

— Vladimir Nabokov in a letter to his wife Véra, 8 July 1926.

[fragmentedessence]

And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it."

Richard Siken, Crush

[typewriter-worries]

The Moon and the Yew Tree, Tory Dent

[ Text ID: How I would like to believe in / tenderness --- ]

[voicedwords]

After Reading Sappho, Aza Pace

[sapphicchickens]

essay by sof sears on their substack “heartmouth” (heartmouth.substack.com)!!!

[lamentofspring]

— haley nichole green, excerpt from hope & a cup of tea

[khalepatekala]

A soft love like this!

[waitinqroom]

“interim” - edna st. vincent millay / the new orleans botanical garden - @s-ofthearted

[dyingenigma]

Vers la tendresse (2016) dir. Alice Diop

[mangoslixes]

@latejulys i am devastated

[fragmentedessence]

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.” 

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous