sketchbook stuff
i can‘t remember the name of my favorite poem but it has this quote in it that’s like “if you pretend to love enough people you will never go hungry” and its about where this person was when Elliott smith died and at the end of it he opens up a fortune cookie and it says something bad and he doesn’t tell anyone about it for a whole year
Salaam Cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran, 1995)
and i think that’s what a father is— a blade that never stops cutting.
agustín gómez-arcos (trans. william rodarmor) // caravaggio // simon de beauvoir // mary ruefle // rembrandt // helga floros // rembrandt // li-young lee
trans masculinity, when u have a shitty father, is abt taking pieces of him for yrself & reclaiming it & turning those things delicate & caring in ways he could never, ways that would disgust him. in his hand-me-down jacket, i carry bandages. the knife he used to skin deer is now the knife i use to sections apples to share with my brother
smthng abt killing the monster & taking a tooth for a necklace, not as a trophy but as way of turning what tormented u for so long into smthng beautiful
YES GOOD
Expressionistic green bathroom with skewed perspective, Germany
I KNOW THIS ABOUT WINTER, salem s.
poem in which the vulture flees, by silas denver melvin
from love as an act of merciful conquer by silas denver melvin
click for better quality (my instagram)
[Text ID: “you want to be loved if only to prove it possible: to tell the world that someone saw you as a conquest & came back alive. that above all else, you are worthy of the risk, the effort. you want someone to serve you the evidence: (in italics) you are not as damned as you think you are. you are not as damned as you think you are (end italics)”. /End ID]
happy spotify wrapped to all who celebrate [id in alt]
bad & naughty transsexuals get banished from the family for being too complicated
adrienne rich, of women born: motherhood as experience and institution / alexandra levasseur - body of land collection, 2015 / ana teresa barboza - bordados collection, 2004 / margaret atwood, “europe on $5 a day” / tracey emin - it was all too much, 2018 / clarice lispector, a breath of life / gérard lartigue- femme bougie, 2018 / jenefer schute, life-size / louise bourgeois - i DISTANCE myself from myself, 2010 / wayne koestenbaum, “figure” / henrik uldalen - caries and surge, 2017 / andrés cerpa, “the vault” / jennifer’s body (2009) / enrico robusti- food, sex, & irony collection, 2014 / sylvia plath, the bell jar
i distance myself from myself
Sourced from ‘real depression project’ on Instagram.
[ID: Pictures with white writing on purple backgrounds, first & last pictures are pink writing on purple backgrounds. Words in quotation marks are also pink.
Picture 1; ‘childhood trauma isn’t just the result of being abused. It can also be the result of…’
Picture 2; ‘Being left to “fend for yourself” when you needed safety and security’.
Picture 3; ‘Having your feelings invalidated and denied whenever your sought emotional support’.
Picture 4; ‘Being forced to “self sooth” alone and find escape from your painful reality (eg. Video games)’.
Picture 5; ‘Having to hide your true self because it wasn’t accepted by those you craved to be understood by’.
Picture 6; ‘Having your parents constantly prioritise themselves (or their work) over yourself’.
Picture 7; ‘Feeling like you have to compete/prove yourself to receive the love and attention you sought’.
Picture 8; ‘Please know you are worthy of love & compassion- don’t let your parents inability to give you this make you conclude otherwise’. /end ID]
a little comic about lacking a soul and needing to find it
33 year old virus infected pc | source
i kin her 💚