LOUDER MEANER SOFTER SWEETER

SHONI. she/they. 25. painter / collage artist

[7pleiades7]

Evening Star (also known as L'Étoile du soir), (Detail), (1848), by Henry Pierre Picou (French, 1824 – 1895), signed 'HENRY PICOU' (lower right), oil on canvas, 54 × 35½ in. (137.2 × 90 cm.), Private Collection

[idc0o]

some of yall didnt go insane at 15 and it shows

[mandi-bul]

Praise

[konoko]

in my horny and slut era (on the verge of mental breakdown, begging to be held and never abandoned ever again)

[creetch]

'Revenge is bad' to YOU. i love when a character destroys everyone who wronged them. i love when they get to bite and maim and tear and rip and scratch and kill. Sorry ur catholic about it but i'm different

[sailorscorpiovenus]

cassiemarin on ig

[petaltexturedskies]

The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.

Tennessee Williams, from a recorded interview

[remanence-of-love]

[616octoberlane]

I quit alcohol and nicotine 2 yrs ago with minimal issue. Quitting thoughts of my ex? I'm scratching at my arms and rocking back and forth and crying during the daytime and foaming at the mouth and waking from dreams where I can feel him and aching at night so badly my hearts pounding and I'm sweating and shaking and and and and

[dogpuppy]

[failboyfriend]

listen to my body? my body wants me to touch myself and cry at the same time

[paper-wounds]

via

[jun-hug]

ladybugs for my little doodle series

[616octoberlane]

everyday I wake up and I'm like damn I wish it didn't hurt this much to be alive. And then I see something much worse than what I'm going through and I'm like oh! I can't do this.

[wildweirwood]

— Faith Alexandria, Fears of the Heart

[gremlininho]

[616octoberlane]

WHY DOES IT HURT SO MUCH STILL