#how strange it is to be anything at all

[der3ality]

[rgrfederer]

do you think roger federer thought that after being defeated in miami 2004, 20 years later he would write one of the most heartfelt love letters to this one spanish kid who managed to beat him when he was on top of the world

[putyourcigaretteoutonmyback]

if god is real ,

he is cruel .

[schmoyoho]

christalbott450 cooked, give them a publishing deal 🗣️

[risesthenight]

there’s this trope where a queer person falls in love with their straight bsf and have to keep quiet as said friend doesn’t shut up about their love interest and i just wanna say

it’s so real

TOO real in fact,

and not just to alloromantics

the aroace experience of watching each and every one of your friends desert you for their partner and put all their energy into a relationship you’ll never quite understand? very painful!

i’ve known you for years and the way i look at you is with the same heart that he does, but my love will always be second to his

[heartz4shauna]

i hope he is okay

[skribbyposts]

Sanji, staring longingly at the sea: “maybe there is something wrong with me but i feel while watching him fight roronoa zoro so hot. but I am a boy and will be punished.

…How strange it is to be anything at all”

[april-is]

April 17, 2024: You Belong to the World, Carrie Fountain

You Belong to the World Carrie Fountain

as do your children, as does your husband. It’s strange even now to understand that you are a mother and a wife, that these gifts were given to you and that you received them, fond as you’ve always been of declining invitations. You belong to the world. The hands that put a peach tree into the earth exactly where the last one died in the freeze belong to the world and will someday feed it again, differently, your body will become food again for something, just as it did so humorously when you became a mother, hungry beings clamoring at your breast, born as they’d been with the bodily passion for survival that is our kind’s one common feature. You belong to the world, animal. Deal with it. Even as the great abstractions come to take you away, the regrets, the distractions, you can at any second come back to the world to which you belong, the world you never left, won’t ever leave, cells forever, forever going through their changes, as they have been since you were less than anything, simple information born inside your own mother’s newborn body, itself made from the stuff your grandmother carried within hers when at twelve she packed her belongings and left the Scottish island she’d known—all she’d ever known—on a ship bound for Ellis Island, carrying within her your mother, you, the great human future that dwells now inside the bodies of your children, the young, who, like you, belong to the world.

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Also by Carrie Fountain: Will You?

More like this: -> The World Has Need of You, Ellen Bass -> Why I’m Here, Jacqueline Berger -> from Burial, Ross Gay -> Poem to My Child, If Ever You Shall Be, Ross Gay

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[dirtonmyknees]

splash !

the waters cold and refreshing,

something to combat the warm summer air,

plop

sitting in the water, the sand clouding it, a shade of brown before returning to the clear color.

the rivers nice, really.

[dykeseinfeld]

was super depressed yesterday abt how my friends don’t really care abt me enough to invite me to anything fun well. now i’m going to a party on thursday night and going on vacation w my friends in a couple weeks so

[silentradi0]

i think about this at least once a day

[belmeran]

i don’t know what i’m feeling right now

[terriblebicho]

that guy who put that comment under that Twilight video had the right idea, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea is like, a really good song to have a sexuality crisis to.

[the-real-hank-green]

How strange it is to be anything at all

[kafkazboyfriend]

all secrets sleep in winter clothes. ok.

[roadsidegrave]

when I can’t rb the neutral milk hotel stimboard because op says proshippers dni and I just rbed and tagged a gifset from a romantic movie as the twins from breaking bad :(