eadem mutata resurgo

all the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful

[anancientheart]

first time in my life that choosing myself feels inevitable instead of like an obstacle to overcome to make sure everyone else is good.

[dk-thrive]

I have always wondered whether everyone’s interior life is as exhaustingly complicated as mine, if everyone is placed, like a white mouse, in the middle of their labyrinthine mind, through which they have to find a path, just one, the true one, while all the others lead to traps with no escape.

— Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid, tr. Sean Cotter. (Deep Vellum Publishing, November 29, 2022)

[mihai-florescu]

Languages tend to peak at their word for butterfly. Never seen 2 that are the same, either. Papillon. Mariposa. Borboleta. Fluture. Vlinder. Schmetterling. Pillangó. Babochka. Farfalla. Sommerfugl. Perhonen. Farasha. Titali. Chōchō. Nabi. Húdié. Buom buom. Great job guys, i really mean it.

[agardenandlibrary]

I should be able to both read for 8hrs a night and sleep for 8hrs a night. That I cannot is very rude and, frankly, poor design.

[wovi]

[soracities]

If age and disability teach us anything, it is that investing in beauty will never set us free. Beauty has always been hurled as a weapon. It has always taken the form of an exclusive club; and supposed protection against violence, isolation and pain, but this is a myth. It is not true, even for those accepted in to the club.

Mia Mingus, from "Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability"

[weltenwellen]

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

[arthatred]

Gustave Caillebotte - "Yerres, Effect of Rain", 1875. Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago.

[elegantzombielite]

"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration."

Igor Stravinsky, composer

(17th June 1882-1971)

[mournfulroses]

Anne Truitt, from a diary entry featured in Turn: The Journal of an Artist originally published in 1982

[jardindefruits]

“Have I not loved you for a thousand years?”

— W.B. Yeats, from Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats; “The Shadowy Waters” 

[soracities]

"[...] Understanding the world as a collection of  aesthetics, of brands, instead of a series of philosophies and power struggles means focusing on how things appear, and not how or why they work.  It’s bad enough to think about art this way, but thinking of yourself this way is a real disaster, [it] means neglecting what drives you, what fulfills you, what makes you human. The invented lifestyles of these aesthetics offer no path to embodiment, because they aren’t designed for entities with bodies. They’re  designed for TikTok, and hashtags, and the wiki."

"Millions of Dead Vibes", Lily Alexandre

[ortut]

Julian Hooper 1. Introduction, 2016 2. Inevitable conclusion, 2016 (Acrylic on linen)

[psychotic-gerard]

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[averagefairy]

I still love this website so much because it feels like the last connection we have to an internet that doesn’t exist anymore like I can come on here and scroll through posts that are literally just funny or beautiful or interesting with no intention to sell me something or influence me we are all just here for a laugh. Nothing is just for laughs anymore EXCEPT tumblr dot com

[aksamitna]

Kazimierz Wierzyński

[ilmi0labirint0-deactivated20250]

There is nothing There is nothing There is nothing Then there is something For a brief moment Then there is nothing again

. Louise Bourgeois