I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
“As you age, the farewells become frequent. Part of your routine. A close friend, almost. The absence of companionship becomes your greatest confidante, as you relearn your solitude. It has reduced you to something infinite. Limitless. After all, how can you be ruined by an empty room? You were never meant to endure the world alone, and yet you found a way to conquer it whole.”
My whole life
someone told me
to be a weapon,
when all I wanted
was to weep.— Azura Tyabji & Jackson Neal, from “Black Fire Ballad (I Feel Most Evil in My Mother’s Gowns),” Teen Titans, Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom
sorry we dont have money for covid relief or health care or any other useful thing we dumped it all into the defense budget which we will then not even use to defend our capitol when its invaded by fascist terrorists
The little exchange with Luchenko and Beth after their match melts my damn heart. Like this old grandpa-like gentleman gives Beth such a heart felt compliment like ahhhhhh if that doesn’t give you good feelings in your chest I don’t know what will
ah, the slut i have become for Beth Harmon with her mysterious eyes and her unintentional feminism, and Benny Watts with his gross little mustache and his stupid trench coat