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“my country is a mouth and nobody can pronounce my name // I mean my country forgets my name // I mean my country is always asking for my name // and I’m always saying it twice // spelling it like an address // my country is a number”

— Hala Alyan, from “When They Say Pledge Allegiance, I Say,” published in The Adroit Journal

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Margaret Atwood, published on Eating Fire;

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“If I am to perish by the power of fire, At least let that fire be yours.”

— Ovid, Metamorphoses II.280-281 (via pythionice)

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Alberto Polo Iañez

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Janet Fitch, from “White Oleander,” originally published c. July 1999

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Dog and pony skull.

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“Despair coils scorpion-like, stinging itself,”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, from “Love’s Last Lesson,” written c. 1827

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“i ache for you. // in the parts of me that still yield.”

— Faylita Hicks, from “Chaos 1:1,” published in Pidgeonholes

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LOOK AT MY UGLY ELF!!!!! this looks amazing! thank you so so much!!!

Girls night out (commission for @leholana 4 full body characters, simple background)

Iriari - Essalie - Leho - Ithise

I’m gonna be honest here, I have no experience on how to draw a group of ppl the way you could see well each of them (without having any of them showing back to the camera). Also gotdamn, I love drawing cloth folds and that stuff.

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longing is a room built entirely of knives

Leslie Harrison, from “[Sirens],” The Book of Endings   (via lifeinpoetry)

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Clouds by Frederic Edwin Church part II.

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Hobbit’s woods! by donato caragnano