Poetry Is A Fundamental Food Group If You Dont Read A Decent Poem Once Or Twice A Month You Get Soul

poetry is a fundamental food group if you dont read a decent poem once or twice a month you get soul anemic bone tired and all that

Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone)

nothing gives me more peace than knowing that love will come back to me in many ways and different forms. i may have no idea what the future holds for me but at least there will be love. & a lot of it

my issue with the tiktok censoring is that. like. it’s clearly just for brands. if someone is uncomfortable saying swearing (or knows someone has a problem seeing it), you substitute fuck for either f*ck or f*** (asterisks corresponding to letters). but it’s NOT for people, it’s for the algorithm, which is why we get seggs rather than s*x (some people don’t like seeing the word, and that IS okay. saying “biseggsual” rather than “bisexual”? less okay because it’s not your choice). it’s not actually helping anyone, it’s just censorship. and it effects topics that need to be discussed, like safe sex, sexuality, substance use and abuse. and those are just examples!!!

tl;dr - tiktok-speak isn’t for users, it’s for advertisers, and *that’s* why it’s bad

nap time, and a thought about the comfortability of depression or something in regards to escapism is still incubating. i’ll get back to you on that one.

jhaklfjdhflaue where is that quote on praying for the damned ohhohh i just had a really thoughtly thought but its gone oh my. putting this here in hopes i think it again sometime