Bell hooks said "love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth. Only love can give us the strength to go forward in the midst of heartbreak and misery. Only love can give us the power to reconcile, to redeem, the power to renew weary spirits and save lost souls. The transformative power of love is the foundation of all meaningful social change. Without love our lives are without meaning. Love is the heart of the matter. When all else has fallen away, love sustains"
bell hooks, All About Love
i love seeing best friends goofing around in public. i love seeing couples laughing together. i love seeing little kids walking hand in hand with their parents. i love seeing dogs running happily back to their owners. i love seeing closeness and positive relationships, and knowing all that love is out there
damn kinda not feeling it... thinking of bursting into tears
The saddest thing about nostalgia is that it is always the seed of tragedy. We fall in love with a story, we tell it to ourselves again and again, we fall in love with our retellings, we forget to consider whether there was ever a meaningful difference between the story and our retellings and, eventually, we make the decision to revisit that story: expecting, of course, the static object we’ve immortalized in our minds to exist just as we think we’ve left it.
— Kevin Cooley and Caleb Andrew Milligan, Haunted objects, networked subjects: The nightmarish nostalgia of creepypasta, 2018.
HALLOWEEN — PHOEBE BRIDGERS Live at the Moroccan Lounge
nick alm
“So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don’t hold on to them the sea will take them too. Yet I still, he said, believe in love. Love restores almost everything, and where it can’t restore, it takes away the pain.”
— Rachel Cusk, Outline (via merulae)
against the mass of night / myself i think shall never know, how far beneath the wave i go / dusk shed by a lamp brightens the tears / clouds are pushing in grey reluctance / motionless forever / song for the last act
wong kar-wai inspired portraits in nyc — shot by chellise
Florence Welch - a photo that should be a renaissance painting
Nick Alm Art Oil on canvas. Slightly croped.
HUGS IN ART
alisher kush (via behance) / alisher kushakov / francesco tortorella / valentini mavrodoglou / alisher kush (via behance) / hiroki nishiyama / hennie niemann / connie chadwell / alisher kush (via behance)
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu + Paintings
Cafe Lovers by Joseph Lorusso Portrait of a Heart by Christian Schloe The Green Gown by Thomas Edwin Mostyn The Migration Series, Panel No. 55 by Jacob Lawrence Miranda, The Tempest by John William Waterhouse The Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec On the Dunes (Lady Shannon and Kitty) by James Jebusa Shannon Two Women in a Bed disturbed by a Cat by Jean Alphonse Roehn Portrait of Edith French by John Singer Sargent Portrait of Madame Seriziat by Jacques-Louis David
hozier posters that low-key fuck
Clytemnestra, John Collier, 1882 / Gone Girl, David Fincher and Gillian Flynn, 2014
wishing all bisexuals a very get kissed on the mouth