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Actually, people are good by nature and you’re a fool if you think otherwise.

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Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

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birth-day by Lucille Clifton

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i feel his absence in everything;

a web weave about pet loss

terry pratchett | katya minkina | vita sackville-west | will wood | ryuko azume | hot mulligan | jamie anderson | unknown | lemony snicket | chloe frayne

#on pet loss #on grief #on cats #on love #web weave #web weaving #paradox creation #im fucking going through it #life looks so dull and empty without him in it

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A web about how cats are incredible and the best little silly companions

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

Anonymous, Pangur Bán (trans. Seamus Heaney)

Book of Hours, 15th century (link)

Kobayashi Issa, ‘Arise from sleep, old cat’ (trans. Peter Beilenson)

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Emperor Uda of Japan, writing about his new kitten in 889AD

via @eatsleepcrap (cut down to text only)

Found on the walls of a bookstore full of cats (via @tmmyhug)

Mamie Dickens, My Father as I Recall Him

The kitten mascot of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle in the hammock made for her by the ship's sailmaker, c. 1945 (via)

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

Jean Cocteau

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do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.

#3:03pm #petting my elder cat and trying NOT to think about how he's slowing down #and debating if i want to paint my room this weekend or wait

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desire paths are poetic to me, a collaborative effort to create something together, an intrinsic connection to complete strangers even as we echo each other's footprints day after day

you could view desk grafitti in a similar light: a collaborative artwork despite the artists being strangers. an act of creation for the mere sake of expressing one's existence

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fatima aamer bilal, from i mother it the absence of her, iii. i am not a person that can be loved for a very long time excerpt from moony moonless sky.

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Forget unrequited love, you know what's really tragic? requited love but they're doomed by the narrative. It doesn't matter that they love each other, it doesn't matter how hard they love, they were doomed from the start.

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Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena // Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Eden Robinson, "Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted" // Chloe Liese, Always Only You // Anne Carson and Euripides, An Oresteia // Two—Sleeping At Last // Studio Bones, SK8 the Infinity // Trista Mateer, "is it okay to say this?" // @moodylilac // D. H. Lawrence, "The Rainbow"

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It always upsets me so much when I see interpretations/illustrations of the two headed calf poem that show a living calf being torn away from its mother and killed to sell to a museum and framing the poem as being "humanity kills beautiful things for being different".

Two headed cows almost never survive more than a few hours after their birth. The farmer finds the *body* the next day. The calf was destined to die, and that's a tragedy, but for the time it was alive, it had a beautiful and unique experience.

It's not a poem about the cruelty of man. It's a poem about the beauty of life in an indifferent universe. It's about purpose and beauty being able to exist even in an existence doomed to come to an end, as all our lives are. It's not a poem about how a calf dies, but how, even for only a brief moment, it was alive.

And, for that moment, because of that life, however fleeting, the sky had twice as many stars.

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starting a collection

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“Body Love Part 1”, Mary Lambert

“Stranger”, Lillian Mae

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I didn't talk about it on here yet, but I'm still baffled by what Normal People Things is doing on US Radio Charts.

It was steady, like debuted in the Top 30 on the Alternative radio charts, lingered in the teens for weeks and got to like...11? Then it started falling. Which is fair. It's been since October, it came out at an awkward time, and I don't think they pushed it as hard as CMWYL.

Plus, Lovejoy has a single coming out soon. So me and the other nerds were like "yeah, that makes sense. The Normal People Things life cycle is near the end."

We thought.

And then this fucking tweet hit us out of nowhere.

And sure enough, it bounced back up like three spots.

The band is doing pretty damn well on US radio. Though I do hope the song chills out before the new single. I'd hate for the new thing to get buried by Normal People Things like POABS was buried by CMWYL.

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WHY AM I SO LONELY FOR LONESOME LOVE? // DEVOTION THAT SWALLOWS YOU WHOLE

Richard Siken Crush // unknown // Richard Siken Anyway // Leah Horlick For Your Own Good // Mitski I'm Your Man // Sean Glatch Caffeine, Pt. 1 // unknown // Dani Ran in an article for VICE with Ethel Cain // Katherine Philips Friendship's Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia