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ken dolls will take silly mugshots

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I cried. I threw up. I shook. I climbed the walls. I cried some more. I tore my hair out. I saw the light. I was on the brink of death. And I cried even more. Charlotte and George were everything and then some. Like my brain chemistry has been permanently altered. I will never be the same. Every time I think about them I’m launched into a brand new mental breakdown. I don’t know how I will recover from this.

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so far away, but still so near…

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Natalie Díaz, from “American Arithmetic”, Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)

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fatima aamer bilal, from her garden yearns more for visitors than water.

[text id: if there's something that loathes me more than my very being, it's my yearning. / i am yearning / in its most disgusting form.]

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why is it always "good morning/good evening" and never "tum se hi din hota hai, surmai shaam aati hai" ??

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i’m just a fool that loves heart-shaped things

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Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

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tired of being brave about things i will now be openly pathetic

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friends to lovers never had a bad track. “scared i’ll ruin what we have” SLAPS. “friendship cuddles while secretly dying inside” BANGER. “teasing each other and holding eye contact for a little too long” KILLS ME. and don’t even get me STARTED on “screaming i love you in the middle of a heated argument.”

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Guillaume Apollinaire, from Aubade (tr. by Donald Revell); Alcools: Poems, 1913

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Grit: A Poetry Collection, Silas Denver Melvin

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[tearing at my hair] no love however brief is wasted no love however brief is wasted no love however brief is wasted

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— Mahmoud Darwish, Another Road in the Road

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sita ramam (2022) // michael Grandage about the intimate scenes in My Policeman 

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intangible - madisen kuhn

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maybe the purpose of life is to fill it with as many positive things as you can. regardless of how bad life gets, don’t let it steal your personality, your hobbies, your style. after coming home from a bad day at work maybe you need to sit down and read a nice book. after studying non-stop for so long, maybe you should finish that crochet project you’ve been putting off because you’re so busy. maybe we should prioritize the things we love, the things that make us happy, and not just the things we’re forced to do to survive. in this society, a little peace from the outside world is important. don’t give up on the things that make you happy. don’t forget about yourself.