Just a girl, wrapped in a blanket, with the wind whistling and the rain storming outside, doing her research for her thesis, in a paratextual friendship with twenty-years-old Mary Shelley she will never know about because we are two centuries apart
WORDS FROM THE HALLWAY
She had spun herself a web- not one of lies nor of truth-
Just a sticky situation to let others come into
It’s quite strange, to be a bird like her
For words and songs aren’t always heard
She declares her faith to one admirer
But the nest and the next she has no desire.
Birds can’t speak but she’s a flyer.
Watch her dive, watch her drive,
Watch her spin her web of crimes.
Watch those tears fall down others' faces,
Will she stop and slow her pace?
Twig legs no longer there,
She’s disgusted and caught in her hair.
Dare she move once more? Fuck those birds and slam the door.
“The bottom line is this: You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it…If there is no moral question, there is no reason to write. I’m an old-fashioned writer and, despite the odds, I want to change the world”
— James Baldwin
It’s crazy how low self-worth fucks with peoples lives
EVERYTHING
His eyes, oh his eyes were jewels
I wanted to rob him blind
He stared at me like I was something
My heart rushed, jumping in my chest
Why did I feel like I was
Nothing to him?
He whispered to me
“What are we?”
Nothing
Coldness surrounds us
Could we be something?
Could he keep me warm?
“What am I to you?”
I whispered back.
His eyes never left my gaze,
Never blinking
“Everything.”
regarding the röttgen pietà, elle emerson
Happy STS! ♥️ You can go back in time and give yourself one piece of writing advice. What is it?
If I could go back in time and give myself one piece of writing advice, it would have to be “Don’t compare yourself to other writers and go at your own pace.” I often feel like I shouldn’t even refer to myself as a writer but hearing this advice has really helped my confidence and understand that everyone is different and I should be happy to refer to myself as a writer.
I believe there’s more than one soulmate for everyone,
Ten fingers and ten toes
I believe I met one of my soulmates
I believe it from the way he likes my nose
However, it is not our time
We know that is just the way it goes,
Writing letters of love in the dark
Vowing to save our bond for another day
N.
How to describe someone time isn’t a friend of-
Fate knows your name,
It’s strong, your strong. In your arms, I feel safe,
Until we let go
Music turned all the way up
The only song I wanted to hear was your heart
Harmonious, a voice so sweet to the ears
Fate might not be our friend,
But time knows our name and dammit it demands it so mockingly,
Like a threat.
Dare we prove fate wrong and test the stars? We’ll test the boundaries of life itself.
let’s just stop time so i can read all my books without real life interfering
reading a book is not enough i need to embroider the words on my lungs
Words[poetry, flash fiction, novels] and worlds from a writer called Lu. I sometimes post my photography.
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