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love letters

its just hotter nudes? how about frida kahlo writing “nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. my body is filled with you for days and days. you are the mirror of the night. the violent flash of lightning. the dampness of the earth. the hollow of your armpits is my shelter. my fingers touch your blood. all my joy is to feel life spring from you flower-foundation that mine keeps to fill of the paths of my nerves which are yours.”

@alexpoez

Jan 27, 2024

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Spicy 1st century bc poetry

My flatmate said, “he turned a ring into a penis” and I knew I needed to find this book. Amores by Ovid is fascinating yet hilarious, particularly Elegy XV which is a love letter to a mistress… “To touch her hand thou wilt the pleasure have; I now must envy what myself I gave. O! would a Proteus or a Circe change Me to thy form, that I like thee might range ! Then would I wish thee with her breasts to play, And her left hand beneath her robes to stray. Tho' straight she thought me, I will then appear”

@xanthe

Sep 19, 2024

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Fernando Pessoa

The first schizoposter. I've been carrying the little book of poems I Have More Souls Than One with me for almost 5 years now - it's always within reach. Pessoa came upon a method of fracturing perspective into different "authors," through which he then managed various poetic form, voiced unpopular opinions, and so on. "Please excuse the absurdity of what I am about to say, but there had appeared within me, then and there, my own master," he wrote, with the language of a spiritual possession, upon discovery of this method. BPD boyfriend, ahead of the category. I open the little book to a random page: "Soon as there are roses, I want no roses." Desire fulfilled is not desire, after all. "The gods do not consent to more than life." We are not separate from nature; we are nature. Accept the dissonance of method, approach The Book of Disquiet. The consistency of the occult, through the dozens of heteronyms, should fascinate even the most faintly tuned-in medium.

@howmanygods

Nov 10, 2023

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being friends with people smarter than you

if you think you’re the smartest person in your friend group you’re weird and annoying. the best friendships come out of mutual awe and respectability. be friends with people who make you want to know more things.

@mdoinurmom

Jan 29, 2024

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rejecting the word situationship

i will never be in a situationship in the same way i will never be in the land of oz--it's just not real. i think using the word doesn't let you self-reflect in a way that is truly helpful. i was telling my friend about the awkwardness of seeing an exhook up in a relationship bc i thought we had mutual feelings and she said "oh your exsituationship" and i thought (for the first time) no, we had clear boundaries i just got my hopes up. my point is that instead of using situationship as a catch-all for not quite dating or wtv failed prospect, take it as a moment to reflect on what exactly went wrong. idk if this is profound or not

@mdoinurmom

Jan 30, 2025

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advice on getting and having friends

idk if any of this will be remotely helpful, but this is generally how i see socializing to find friends: 1. do something consistently 2. do something where other people are also (generally) by themselves 3. do something that requires discussion exercise classes, coffee shops, open studios, libraries, organizing/protesting/charity work; really to acquire friends you just have to do things that's it. do things you like so you are around people who share similar interests and thus will have a higher "friend hit rate" but really the most essential point on the list is the first one (the other two are nice bonus'). with enough consistency you become noticed and then boom. on becoming friends: 1. open invites 2. follow ups now that you've just met some people, get them into your circle by open inviting them to things. if you're going out later that night, offer for them to join. if you're both in a pottery class maybe offer an open invite to a gallery you're visiting. this is how you shift casual acquaintances to actual friends. the important thing is to concretize your plans tho. you're not trying to pressure them but you do want to make them feel like it was more than just a vapid offer, so after you suggest it wait a bit and follow up with details. this also goes for the reverse of being given an open invite. on being friends: 1. do the best piece of advice (which might have come from pi.fyi) is that sometimes you just need to be the doer. maybe you see a tiktok about a picnic with friends and you think dang wouldn't it would be cool if my friends did that. well, there's nothing stopping you, you have to be the friend that does stuff. obviously this is a little time consuming and exhausting but generally people want to pay it forward so once you get the ball rolling on the friend group doing stuff, people usually follow suit also fear is the mind killer, go forth and be

@mdoinurmom

Jan 27, 2025