love as preservative

“frangipani frogs with a radio” by Linnea Sterte on INPRNT

"Worst of all is that, having colonised almost every known corner of reality, capitalism convinces us that life itself is what’s awful. Which would be so much easier to believe, relinquishing us from the added strain of imagining what possibilities might lie beyond the existent. But some things can never be fully ground down, some truths – physiological rather than intellectual – never quite forgotten. As children, everything was so different: we promised ourselves we’d never become old, nor surrender our dreams. With the passing of time, though, those joyous days, in which all activity was but a modification of play, somehow receded into the distant past. Hammered out of us by the banality of routine, and the violence of constant stress, that youthful wisdom – the unashamed passion with which we approached every conceivable issue – slowly withered and died. As adults, most of us have totally forsaken the preciousness of life – not merely our own lives as individuals, but also of life itself. Yet it can always be rediscovered. Lying within each of us is a dormant truth, something so terrible, so revolutionary, that it threatens to demolish everything that makes the 21st century such a wretched affair: life is not merely something to get through. "

- Total Liberation

fucking hate it when people ask what my hobbies are/what i do for fun idk dude i like standing in the river

Teddy bear handmade with 1960s terry cloth remnants.

never let someone get too superior acting about their music taste like its just noises girl

Dream

Novelty Lingerie

1940-1945

The FIDM Museum

Sergiu Ciochină

outtakes from shoot for hooligan mag with bao who took me to coney island for the first time. photoshoots always feel weird because like, i’m a musician, i don’t mind being observed when I’m playing music because i’m doing what i do, but when someone’s taking my pictures while i’m not doing anything it’s like why are you looking at me? i’m not doing anything? what is my body?

i know i’m biased because i’m 12 at heart and i think everything he does is funny but my little brother put together a last-minute “time traveler” costume for halloween which comprised solely of this homemade WW3 draft card and i think every single aspect of it is absolutely fucking hilarious

No, this slaps.

Growth is admitting I too possess toxic qualities & carry unhealed traumas I need to work on

Read an article on dating as a millennial (and gen z) and it basically said we’re screwed because we ghost to end things, we’re hyper-focused on sex, we actively try to show we’re not too interested, our responses are too strategic, we have too high of expectations of people and become entitled, we have a surplus of options and access, we’ve become too comfortable being alone that it’s become difficult to invite others into our lives, we’ve normalized vague situationships and unclear intentions, and we’re not accountable for the pain that we inflict on others. This is fine for some people, but for others that acknowledge that human beings need authentic connection and that it’s natural to want intimacy, this is going to lead to people aging into loneliness and settling into misery if we don’t do inner work and heal our perception of love collectively. 

the responses lmfao

idk what everybody else is talking about I’m just acknowledging that a lot of us are emotionally unavailable or avoidant of vulnerability due to inner issues from past experiences, unresolved childhood shit, whatever… while simultaneously wanting love. and it doesn’t work that way. if you’re operating at a frequency of lack, distrust, negativity, and being closed off and cynical in your interactions and relations with people you’re not allowing yourself to be open and loving and to be opened up to and loved.

the newer generations have been good about identifying and no longer tolerating toxicity in relationships or traditional aspects of relationships but to the point where we’ve adopted habits to guard ourselves and we’re seeing now that’s not the best tactic because now we’re just unavailable! we play head vs. heart a little too hard. there’s people standing on the side of “i’m never letting someone break my heart again.” “it’s just casual.” “i’m not ready for commitment.” but at the same damn time yearn for love and connection or a relationship. there’s such an emotional disconnect between others and fear around intimacy and people need to work on removing the anxieties and lies that they hold towards love if they want to have real and healthy love in their lives. you can’t be on both sides, cross that bridge.

this also isn’t a shameful thing, it’s life and how we have learned to respond at this time. there needs to be more education on emotional intelligence, self love and the psychology of relationships in general from young.

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

if taylor swift had dated liam instead of harry she’d have a song called pain instead of a song called style

Claude Firmin. Detail form The studio of caster Sadaune, 1901.