vinegar boy

my teeth were perfectly designed to tear abd rend the soft white flesh of the gentle beast known as the mozzarella

Oppenheimer 2023 | Christopher Nolan

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Chatelaine, 1860s

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bed of lettuce

Detail of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Caravaggio (1598-99). 

april will be a good month [staring into the sink mirror eyebags prominent the most upset person youve ever seen]

Don’t underestimate my desire to not wanna

for @shestrying

in image / desperation sits heavy on my tongue, tumblr user tullipsink / mary oliver, ‘north country’ / virginia woolf, letter to violet dickinson / in image / blythe baird, from if my body could speak / unknown / lynee rae perkins, criss cross / elena ferrante?? / rainer maria rilke, from rilke’s book of hours / in image/ in image

I'm like if a girl had the urge to scream and break something all the time but stays quiet instead

one day I woke up and realised all the waiting and yearning was actually me living my life and it’s happening right now and it’s still good even if it’s not perfect and there is no moment when all your dreams get fulfilled and everything makes sense. like… this is it. this is life. you’ll waste away your youth waiting for some imagined future if you don’t love life for what it is now and make the most of it

On the topic of being obsessed with introspection and “self discovery”, i recently read something by Viktor Frankl which I feel fits the whole following of astrology/mbti/personal discovery etc very well. He said that, because life has become void of meaning for many, because there is an “existential vacuum”, we compensate by “psycho-analyzing” ourselves, sharing our psychological problems and insights with others, discussing them, etc (and he predicted this development in the 40s!). An existential vacuum leads to an obsession with the own psyche that can be the cause of neuroses and its pseudo-therapy. Self-reflection can in itself be the root of many problems. I had a talk with someone about how phases of self-reflection and lots of journaling are often the least mentally stable and happy ones. When we feel good, we do not feel the need to conduct some sort of self-therapy. Viktor Frankl also came up with the concept of using a paradoxical intention for healing neuroses. A patient with insomnia, for example, cannot sleep because they so rigidly and obsessively try to sleep, which hinders them from relaxing into an unconscious state. So a paradoxical intention would be “for a change, why don’t you try to not sleep tonight, and just relax and think about something nice?” - which then makes them fall asleep quickly. Maybe by setting the paradoxical intention “i will not try to figure myself out and heal myself” many of the problems which were simply rooted in obsessing over yourself will take care of themselves.

Sailor hat by Simone Rocha for Jean Paul Gaultier

THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)

Moorish tessellations including this one at the Alhambra inspired Escher’s work with tilings of the plane / Escher’s painstaking study of the same Moorish tiling in the Alhambra, 1936 

by xuh