aarani diana

she/her || writer and poet || malaysian magical girl

[aarani diana @aaranistar]

I've always been so resolute in the fact I love my home, my friends, and my family enough to want to help make a change, make this place better but I can't pretend to always be optimistic about it when the system in place is so utterly broken.

[Nightbloom @Nightbloomc]

you drew stars around my soul

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It's not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances.

—Toni Morrison

[Ciarán @androgynator]

your critique of ai cannot be entrenched in aesthetics because there will be a time when you see an ai image or hear an ai song and think "that looks/sounds good". your critique of ai must always be entrenched in the poisonous effect it has on people's brains and the planet.

[gabrielle @legitimatetiger]

people always ask me how i maintain such a positive outlook and the honest answer they rarely like to hear is that it takes intention to be a positive person. it takes a certain stubbornness, an insistence upon inspiring yourself over and over again, a deliberate choosing of prettier thoughts that will actively organize your rendering of reality around hope and gratitude rather than scarcity and cynicism. it’s an act of defiance, almost. an unwillingness to surrender.

[M @girlpov]

#goodmorning

[✒️ @Literariium]

— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters

[loser @usernamekyaahai]

no competition

[Gaza Poets Society @PoetsGaza]

Full Moon

[Tyler Thurston @reedthurston]

they would open their hands 🤲

[kathy @no1gladionfan]

a little basic but this is my favorite poem. it always makes me happy

[s @_sectumsempra18]

there are so many more, but this saved my life

[ٰ @aotumne]

is it better to speak or to die? speak. dying is inevitable anyways — so speak up. speak your mind. speak it to existence. nobody knows you as much as yourself and hence nobody will speak for you the way your mind needs to be spoken for. so speak, speak, speak.

[aarani diana @aaranistar]

I was lucky to have been recommended this poem at a very different time in my life, and it has always stayed with me. Perhaps we can change how we look at things all the time <3

[alaska @145k4]

everyone wants to say "this poem sucks" that poem sucks"" etc but very few brave enough to say Helllo, here is a poem i LIKE!! This is my taste!