aesthetic shitpost

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) Spring Night

excerpts from “catastrophe is next to godliness” by franny choi (august 2020)

I am looking neither respectfully nor disrespectfully. I gaze without recognition of your form, and without understanding.

Me without my glasses

to want and be wanted

georges bataille / emily palermo / olivia laing / @chaandajaan / georges bataille / cj hauser / @kvetchkween / @nicholasbraungf / vi khi nao / silas denver melvin

You’re in her DM's. I'm going to bed early because I gave up on love. We are not the same.

I could just cry

affirmations for when you have to send emails

people of europe, as always, you have much to fix

if the jury is hated by 1000 people, i am one of them. if the jury is hated by 100 people, i am one of them. if the jury is hated by 10 people, i am one of them. if the jury is hated by 1 person, then it's me. if the jury isn't hated, then i am dead.

Shout out to Ukraine for always understanding the assignment

Truly the best country in Eurovision.

2021 / 2022

gonna stare at someone from across the street and disappear when a car passes

mostly my career goals are to hang out with friends and do whatever is funniest in the moment. hope that helps

Me: it is what it is

Also me: *cries*

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

I would be unstoppable if not for the problems