Robert Sheehan Photographed For Rollacoaster Magazine - 2019

“my child is fine” your child is estranged from their own native language

See you in the beginning.

My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:

Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.

Conjunction: Jupiter and Saturn

Credit: Vladimir Mach

Comprehensive list of Umbrella Academy alignment charts from a certified, real life, Oldest of Seven sibling: 

We need more women characters that are unhinged unlikable weirdos and im not joking

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

how it feels knowing that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall

if i were writing a feminist myth retelling centered around a female character mostly overlooked and denied interiority in the ancient texts that mention her, i would simply not throw helen under the bus to do so

rip to margaret atwood and madeline miller but i’m different

“I live; I die; the sea comes over me; it’s the blue that lasts.”

— Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia (via hellanne)