[podencos]

[sverate]

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from ""Averno", Averno

[weltenwellen]

Danez Smith, from "summer, somewhere"

[a-rchivem7]

versace ad for spring/summer 1980

[thefugitivesaint]

‘Myths and Legends of Ancient Slavs’, Illustration by N. Bukanova, 2007

[possession]

POSSESSION (1981) dir. Andrzej Żuławski

[durianquotes]

“I watch him in the kitchen, and I think of how much it hurts to love somebody. How deep the hurt is, how almost unbearable. It’s not the love that hurts; it’s the possibility of anything happening to the object of your love.”

— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking

[katherynhowards]

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

She wondered dully and vaguely how she could ever have been wrought up over things, how anything could ever make her any way but like this: quiet, and a little sorrowful.

– William Faulkner, from “Adolescence,” Uncollected Stories (Vintage, 1981)

[twoheadedfawnn]

you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out

[choysum]

[mikheevanora-deactivated2025062]

he is like a girl mutual to me

[librarycard]

[despazito]

unfortunately a lot of the corny self help advice turns out to be true but the thing is you have to come to those conclusions yourself otherwise it just sounds dismissive and dumb

[tallahasseemp3]

“suffering feels religious if you do it right” no shut up it doesn’t. my friends laughing in the kitchen while i make dinner feels religious. the sun on my face after a long winter feels religious.

[venustversailles]

somebody in the notes posted this screenshot from the one & only, ursula k le guin. and now i'm screaming wtf

[toocooltobeforgotten]

that james baldwin quote where he says, “it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here.”

[kafk-a]

Melissa Stein