[exhaled-spirals]

“You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.”

— Paul Auster, Winter Journal

[symeonae]

The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[wulfhalls]

paul and alia atreides

Such a rich store of myths enfolds Paul Muad'dib, the Mentat Emperor, and his sister, Alia, it is difficult to see the real persons behind these veils. But there were, after all, a man born Paul Atreides and a woman born Alia. Their flesh was subject to space and time.

[coweyed]

“clean girl aesthetic, ozenpic face, grandpacore, mob wife aesthetic, girl math, girl dinner, veneers, retinol purge, buccal fat removal, office siren, quiet luxury, old money, drunk elephant, blonde dysmorphia”

[gnossienne]

William Blake, from "Milton" (1804)

[flowerytale]

Frank O'Hara, from “Biotherm (for Bill Berkson)”, The Collected Poems

[keryahoraculi]

Marcus Propostus

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth”, Poems 1962-2012

[philomena-famulok]

©Philomena Famulok  

[aura-eden]

EDVARD MUNCH, Madonna, 1894

[llovelymoonn]

my home isn't my home anymore, something's gone wrong along the way

noor hindi dear god. dear bones. dear yellow.: "pledging alliegance" (via @feral-ballad) \\ andrew collins \\ athena nassar, from love is not always song, but the swelling (via @weltenwellen) \\ @holly-warbs \\ yanyi dream of the divided field: poems: "the friend” (via @dactylicreveries) \\ bartosz beda silent interior ii

kofi

[yocalio]

Gladiator (2000) Dir. Ridley Scott

[typewriter-worries]

thinking about jeff buckley being asked, "how do you want to be remembered?" and answering with, "as a good friend."

[horsesweat]

[twirld]

The Apparition (detail, ca.1885) James Tissot 

[weltenwellen]

Athena Nassar, from "Love Is Not Always Song, but the Swelling"

[adalheidis]

A taste of your love to quench my thirst.