Alexis Jae, Metalmorphosis


just crying over how romantic Freddie & Jim were nbd
“If I am a witch, then so be it, I said. And I took to eating black things–coffee, dark chiles, the bruised part of fruit, the darkest, blackest things to make me hard and strong.”
— Sandra Cisneros, from Woman Hollering Creek; “Eyes of Zapata,” c. 1991
“My words to you are only winter roses, a pale perfection wherein silence grieves, above a vivid agony of leaves. But winter roses have a bitter beauty, a bravery unblossomed dissolutely, a loveliness still virginal in decay,”
— Eda Lou Walton, from “Winter Roses,” written c. December 1924