#Time Is a Mother

[romarisea]

Ocean Vuong, from “Reasons for Staying.” [ID in alt text]

[mybruisedankleneedsakiss]

about failure and success and the monstrous vacuum in between

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs // Whisper of the Heart 1995, dir. Yoshifumi Kondō // please, please, please let me get what I want by The Smiths // White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky // Whiplash 2014 dir. Damien Chazelle // Mieko Kawakami, All the lovers in the Nights // Frances Ha 2012 dir. Noah Baumbach // Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea // Steve Jobs 2015 dir. Danny Boyle // Shoko's Smile by Choi Eun-young // Shoko's Smile by Choi Eun-young // Shiva Baby 2020 dir. Emma Seligman // Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke // Evening Wind, Edward Hopper // Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother// Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir // Educated, Tara Westover

[tendermimi]

Ocean Vuong / Dear T

Shane McCrae / To Make a Wound

[wedarkacademia]

How else do we return to ourselves but to fold, the page so it points to the good part

Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

[louisegluck]

Ocean Vuong, from “Dear Peter.” [ID in alt text]

[thebookofaphrodite]

when ocean vuong wrote "in the body where everything has a price, i was a begger" and "even my name knelt down inside me, asking to be spared" and "because this is mess i made, i made with love" and "i'm sorry i keep saying how are you? when i really mean are you happy?" and "i am not a writer but a faucet underwater" and

[citrus-ar]

study outfit 🕯️

[beingharsh]

"Dear Peter" by Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother / "A Hymn to Childhood" by Li-Young Lee, Behind My Eyes

[mythoughttherapy]

“In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my eyes, the word for love is Yêu. And the word for weakness is Yếu. How you say what you mean changes what you say. Some call this prayer, I call it watch your mouth.”

—Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

[romarisea]

Ocean Vuong, from “The Last Prom Queen in Antarctica.” [ID in alt text]

[issiah]

On Astrology and Queerness: Ocean Vuong

Just started “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” and Ocean Vuong’s Scorpio Moon is so loud!!

I feel like I’ve noticed it ever since I read “Time Is A Mother”. He has a thing for really violent imagery to convey emotions. This man must be a Cancer rising because it’s too strong!

This is from “The Bull” and this is one of my favorite lines in the whole book. This whole poem to me was about his relationship with queerness and other boys. As you can see it’s quite intense!

Speaking of queerness he gave a speech talking about queer folk that I think really highlighted his Scorpio Moon “For queer folk failure becomes a necessary practice towards success” I feel this make sense why the ancients say a detriment Moon or Venus can indicate queerness.

Moon and Venus are the two reproductive planets. He has both a Virgo Venus and Scorpio Moon. I find that queer people have to work a lot harder to find what works for them. As that knowledge is really not provided to them in this world. This quote truly exemplifies this fact A planet in detriment has no resources for the planet to function properly. So naturally this would cause a person with these placements to struggle with the themes of the planet and might go through a trial and error period to find what works for them.

Obviously these are not the end all be all placement for queerness (I’m queer and have none of these placements) but I felt it was interesting to look at!!

~✨TaTa for now✨

-Issiah

[wedarkacademia]

I’m still afraid

of butterflies

how they move so much

like a heart

on fire.

Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

[louisegluck]

Ocean Vuong, from “Dear Sara.” [ID in alt text]

[muguetdemai]

Ocean Vuong, from "Ars Poetica as the Maker," Time Is a Mother

[gennsoup]

I'm on the cliff of myself & these aren't wings, they're futures.

Ocean Vuong, Beautiful Short Loser

[arcanvm-arcanorum]

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, satire. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.

- on Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong