Intimacy is about safety. The peace you feel in someone’s presence. The ease in their voice when you disagree. Someone’s attentiveness when you are struggling. Their language when they speak about you, someone’s curiosity to learn you and the surrender when it comes to you.
The idea of english as a mother tongue is so strange to me, in my head english is how ppl communicate when there’s no way in common to communicate, so english as a mother tongue sounds a bit like idk email as a mother tongue ykwim? Like english to me feels like the stuff that’s used to fill the empty spaces between languages
Ok English is my native language and unfortunatly the only one I know yet, but this reminds me so much of that passage in Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Y'all. “Hell is empty and the devil’s are here” is not one of those epic Tumblr quotes. It’s from The Tempest. The Shakespeare one.
remember when that furry post went around with “you have nothing to lose but your chains” and people were saying “this is such a raw ass line and it’s from a furry post” but it’s literally karl marx
reading waiting for godot for class and finding out that’s where that “that’s how it is on this bitch of an earth” meme is from ruined me i think
new game: “classic or shitpost?” in which we give you a raw-ass quote and you have to determine whether it came from an internet shitpost or classic literature
“I will face god and walk backward into hell” that one on the other hand is actually from a dril tweet