#on surviving

[megthemariner]

@ryebreadgf / The Truth About Grief, Fortesa Latifi / bone deep, m.v.e / Sidewalk, Richard Silken / unknown / 60 hours, m.v.e / @itsblackleader / Salt, Nayyirah Waheed / @heavensghost

[akindplace]

I think we often play down the awful things that happen to us, maybe because they’re so hard to think about, maybe because we’re disappointed things didn’t turn out the way we wanted and we blame ourselves even though a lot depends on external factors we couldn’t control. Anyway. Everyone is really going through it, and it’s good to give others the benefit of the doubt and try our best to be kind, right? Yeah, that also applies to you. You don’t have to earn everything by giving yourself away until there’s nothing left, or by proving yourself perfect over and over. Don’t demand so much out of yourself. Sometimes it’s best to recognize those things you’ve been through weren’t easy, and to remember you’re not a failure because you couldn’t completely control those bad situations you found yourself in. I hope you can realize you are more than the bad things that have happened to you, that life won’t always be great, but it won’t always be a complete tragedy. You’re just a person trying your best to keep going even though some terrible memories still bring you down. But I hope you’re proud for having survived. It’s time to create more pleasant memories. You’ve hurt enough. You deserve comfort, and love and help.

[cookiecrumbconundrum]

a year and a day || we keep going

a year and a day has passed and gone, and i am surrounded by love. i still have nightmares, i still cry, and i still feel the effects of that night, but i am in such a better place. my meds are working, i have a meeting with my therapist, and there's so much to do and see and be and i'm so excited. we made it.

the diary of anaïs nin, anaïs nin | magdalene grieving, caravaggio | some are always hungry, jihyun yun | untitled, keith haring | spring, mary oliver | @/hel717 on tumblr | dead stars, ada limón | the rain is left behind, andrii frolov | bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life, anne lamott | karin jurick | rimrock, kaveh akbar

[spiderarchive]

I had to destroy a part of myself to survive. I had to leave her there in a burning house. She can never leave. She burns so that I can live.

[gasolinehive]

— RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA

Ryuichi Sakamoto playing a piano (Grand Yamaha) that survived a tsunami which killed more than 1,600 people after the earthquake in Fukushima on March 11, 2011. He said it felt like playing "the corpse of a piano that had drowned"

[on-trying]

[prettythinguglylie]

Sometimes, it really genuinely just burns down to if life doesn't give you small joys anymore, what's the point? if you don't feel the slightest bit of excitement opening a package from the mail, if you don't smile at nice people, if you don't feel the sun on your face, whats the point of all the suffering?

[spiderarchive]

We can never go back. I know that now. We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago, when we  were little and had no voice to speak the heart's longing.

All About Love, bell hooks

We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken

All About Love, bell hooks | Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken

[an-na-ko]

Lyra, my beloved cat of 13 years, passed away this year on Father's Day. She's been by my side through very difficult times and was my little rock of steady and unrelenting love. I struggled a lot drawing this, and struggled a lot posting it, but I know I would've wanted to read a comic like this that validated my grief for her when I lost her.

Wherever you are, Lyra my little summer star, I love you always! Thank you for being the best thing in my life.

[surviving-the-next-4-years]

[apollohour]

spin the wheel for a genre!

[holographings]

someone on twitter said Imagine what s2 jayce would give to talk to s1 viktor just one more time. and someone had a time travel alternate dimension fic ready to go. and i read it. and now my face is being eaten by 3750 feral dogs i think

[akindplace]

the way change comes slowly then all at once and suddenly you are a completely different person with different dreams when there was a time where you thought you wouldn’t survive things that are now in the distant past…

[bloodstainedmuzzle]

Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023) Leon S. Kennedy [ 1 / ??? ]

[marithlizard]

(ETA: LINK) Reading rahaeli's bsky feed is an education in itself. I did not realize it was so common for undercover agents to join even harmless social activism groups and try to encourage people to do things they could be arrested for. The song has about a dozen verses, all of them based on incidents that resulted in felony charges o.O

The whole thread is very worth reading, especially since the incoming administration has been been very clear that they want to criminalize being trans or supporting trans rights. (Among other things.) ETA: Seems like a lot of folks have had trouble seeing the link to the full thread on bluesky, so I added it again above. This is a screenshot of where tumblr puts the link when you add an attribution URL to an image:

Maybe it doesn't show up properly on mobile? That sounds like a tumblr kind of bug.