i love the idea that cain was the gentle one out of the two brothers, and realistically it makes sense. cain was an agricultor, a gardener, abel slaughtered animals. cain tended their parents' flowers, abel always smelled of blood.

creative writing’s just like yeah sure i can deal with my issues i just need to cover them in several layers of metaphors first

touch depression? with my bare hands? no hang on *invents a character* this will be my gloves

“Isn’t he the cutest thing?”

- June 1, 1912

- The diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913

[ID: "June 1. Wrote nothing." End ID]

Ilya Kaminsky, from Deaf Republic: Poems; "A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck"

[Text ID: "At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"]

Hey, I say let men in your life know when they are cute. Do it. I went to try new glasses with my boyfriend, and I noticed him going back to a pair he wouldn't usually go for and repeating "actually..." in a soft voice. So I asked him to show me. The glasses where round and thin and made his face look soft. He looked super cute. "Baby, you look fucking cute" i told him, because he did. He's had those glasses for the past week and from time to time I tell him he looks good and he lights up and says "I'm so fucking cute". He is. Men and masc folk are cute, and I want them to hear it more, earnestly, because it's great to see them be shy and giddy and soft and proud and even cuter about it. I don't think I need to justify myself more. Do it. Highly recommend. Godspeed.

When C.S. Lewis wrote “but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

Anyone else not cut out for all this

can’t believe i have to go to work when all i want to do is think about the relationship dynamics i have made up between fictional characters

don’t be embarrassed that little joys take up a lot of space in your heart. sometimes they’re the most important things there are in your life, and deserve your attention