they’re in jeju island .
It's so shallow when it's light,
Only flowing up to your ankles at most,
Words, unspoken, washing up on empty shores,
They're meaningless in the afternoon,
But the tide rises in the shadows,
Words that meant nothing in the daylight,
Drowning me in the dark.
- T.J. Foxes
Chaos
making art is actually abusive because you are manipulating the viewer into feeling something
So I went so carelessly,
And threw you away,
Now I stare from the dark hours,
Begging with my heart for your return,
Pleading with my mind that you come home,
But you fell from my chains,
Into the warm embrace of an equal,
No longer the follower of the fool,
But the companion of a friend,
I forever jaded,
The bringer of my own grief,
Your captor and liberator,
Abandoned in the night.
- T.J. Foxes
Mary Oliver, from “Franz Marc’s Blue Horses”, Blue Horses
“““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.””
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— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
Absolutely losing it at this Reddit post
And the update
She buttered Jorts