– Mary Oliver, "Don't Hesitate"
[TEXT ID: "If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb." END ID]
from a 15 minute write using the prompt "advice to your younger self" (july 29 2023)
[Text ID: take HRT. take the world against your hip and listen with one ear, listen for the spot where the grass dances and go there. /End ID]
matching stigmata/crucifixion icons for you and your fellow faggots
Even as a drone hovered above to get this shot, a large male polar bear that photographer Martin Gregus, Jr., calls Scar never stirred in this bed of fireweed. Gregus says he named many of the bears in hopes it would help people relate to them as individuals needing protection.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARTIN GREGUS, JR.
going
transphobic music fans be listening to he or she might be giants
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フクロウ（Ural Owl）
the girlies reading a 1k-word BDSM oneshot for the character studies and artistic merit
Serious explanation here: she's teaching them the instinct of being alert around enclosure openings! For example, if these were wild cats living in a bush, they'd run the risk of a larger predator running up to the opening and grabbing one of them. The mother cat is also only bapping them lightly without claws, so those slaps are more of an annoyance meant to get the kittens' attention, and to teach them to keep their eyes out for potential threats.
also slapping him is fummny
Mihail Sebastian, Women (trans. Phillip Ó Ceallaigh)
[Text ID: "September has arrived, lovely in its weakening light."]
hate when you find a character whose so infuriatingly Your Type that its embarrassing like yeahg no one is gonna be surprised when i announce this is my new Guy Of The Month