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“my favourite toy”
artist: masha kasha
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You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick
David Shrigley
Julien Baker, Loss Protocol
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"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious
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heart’s desire, louise glück
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Rachel Rector: 'Teabag Cyanotypes' (2021)
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my hands have made / some good mistakes. they can always / make better ones.
linda gregg, i thought on his desire for three days // mary oliver, invitation // nikki giovanni // voltaire, candide // gregory orr, to be alive // amy woolard, laura palmer graduated // ingmar bergman // sylvie baumgartel, song of songs: a poem // joan tierney // wendy cope, the orange
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Then I felt like an adult, forced to live in the body of a child. Since, I feel like a child, privileged to live in the body of an adult. The zealot of seriousness in me, because it was already full-grown in the child, continues to think of reality as yet-to-be. Still sees a big space ahead, a far horizon. Is this the real world? I still ask myself that, forty years later ... as small children ask re-peatedly, in the course of a long, tiring journey, "Are we there yet?"
Pilgrimage, Susan Sontag
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You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick
David Shrigley
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“Lilacs, (…) Amid the slant stones of graveyards. Pale ghosts who planted you Came in the night-time And let their thin hair blow through your clustered stems. You are of the green sea, And of the stone hills which reach a long distance.”
— Amy Lowell, from Lilacs in “The Complete Poetical Works Of Amy Lowell”
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When i die, I hope the blueprint of my soul stay behind that it doesn’t fall into abeyance nor stay as a work in progress in someone else’s hands…
In this life time, I traded it for a collection of long lost chances, and dreams that are brushed in passing
On a good day, I’m a hybrid of my family’s coping mechanisms..
On my worst.. i’m an abandoned painting a mixture of their insecurities Covered with the skin of a temptress
One that never feared speaking her mind yet, always ended up romanticized.
I carry the potential of growth with me wherever i go. A ladder I never bothered taking a single step on, favoring whatever stability i cultivated in my own bones
A hundred thousand words, six to seven hours wasted time; wasted love...
Ignorant, i saw all my chances hanging from the branches that grew from me.
thought they’re mine to harvest…
now I’m living in borrowed time, barely stable with one foot in this year While the other has gone ahead to the upcoming one…
so unlike me, to try and set roots…
I don’t really want to reflect, but if i have to guess then that’s just a reaction, a skill that I picked up to deal with all that i denied myself viciously until i broke and indulged taking no account of how alone i’ll feel carrying all that mess around to the next year
Disappointment ? I learned that it can look like every other feeling you know; if you were taught that you have the ability to be just another one of its definitions.
Growing up, my mother always told me: that the only thing she loves about being alive Is me…
I used to fear looking in the mirror, how ugly can love be ?
As ugly as wasted potential a voice answered me
The same voices that tried engraving in my mind that a woman must never be a disappointment
Yet I somehow am.
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•Quotes: Anaïs Nin/ Clementine von Radics/ Mahmoud Darwish/Clarice Lispector/ Anaïs Nin/Rainer Maria Rilke/Louisa May Alcott/Clarice Lispector/Susan Sontag
•Original context: Sinligh
•Art reference:
1. Detail from a painting by Alex Venezia. 2.Kleopatra Elin Danielson-Gambogi. 3. Detail from a painting by Nick Alm. 4. A Creation by Lisa Lach-Nielsen. 5. Overwhelmed by Valeria Duca. 6. Caído por Federico Ferro. 7. Fallen Angel by Chris Young.
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Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964 - 1980
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a scholarly conversation about the future
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I thought so many things & never said a single one aloud. I choked on such longing I couldn’t spit out. Yes, desire is so different when God bore you hungry. I could have devoured anything and still have been starving.
Yves Olade, Belovéd
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silence lay steadily.
things haunt, joshua jennifer espinoza // giovanni's room, james baldwin // through me (the flood), hozier // flowers in the attic, v.c. andrews // i am in eskew, jon ware // anatomy, kitty horrorshow // the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson
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hey does anyone know the best size enclosure for my new medieval knight? i want him to have enough space to wander around and go on quests
This is why inexperienced owners should never get a knight. For proper knight care you should have at LEAST a kingdom for him to roam in. Also, a lot of new owners overlook the fact that knights are social animals. If you just have one knight in your kingdom, he will live an incredibly unhappy life. You will need to provide him with at least one other knight to have homoerotic tension with while they quest together, or at least to miss and think about while on seperate quests. Preferrably, you should have at least as many knights as you do seats at the round table you should be providing for them. Its just so sad when people adopt knights without even considering their optimal habitat beforehand. ADOPT RESPONSIBLY!!!!
You should also consider investing in a Perlesvaus-brand self-rearranging forest. By working off of narrative logic rather than traditional geographical logic, it allows a theoretically infinite number of quests within an apparently-finite space. Excellent enrichment for your knights.
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obsessed where stories where it is like. the mistakes are unfixable and the worst thing that could happen happened and nothing can go back to how it was. but there was still love in this and love will continue after this and love endures always.
The natural companion post to my favorite post