no, i thought of you

do all lovers feel like they're inventing something? || icon by lucy mckenzie & header by holly warbunton

[mournfulroses]

Angela Carter, from a poem titled "Unicorn", featured in Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter

[classicwoodie]

Annual Firefall event in Yosemite National Park.

[geryone]

i love you, it looks like rain, June Gehringer

[miracle-vine]

yes my favorite colors are the warm orange of the windows of a house u see on a walk at night and also the deep blue of the night around it

[byrons]

art by suzanne siegel

[disqualifiedashumanbeing]

[tahxra]

[dailyclassicart]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)

[deadsignaltv]

[glowpart2]

Laura Henriksen

[thoodleoo]

the world may be a dark place sometimes but there are also 1200 year old paw prints from a happy kitty cat out there

[duckland]

[redlipstickresurrected]

Takahiro Yanai aka Christinayan01 (busy) aka CY (Japanese, b. 1984, Shirakawa, Fukushima, Japan, based Kawasaki, Japan) - An Apartment (某マンション), 2013, Photography

[haverst]

'you and me' by Diana Boier

source / Haverst

[mournfulroses]

Izzy Ravas, from her novel titled Disarm: A Forbidden Romance (What We Don't Say,)

[dozydawn]

yowah nut opal resembling a solar system

[chocolettchoo]

Farm animal sketches

[amouthfulloflove]

“When did I become I and the body? When did the two of us separate?”

Madmen, Aditi Nagrath

[homoquartz]

i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.

as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”

small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.

i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.