Power

I dont want to be an Angel i want to be an Oracle // 333 //

[red-lamb]

[vivalasigh]

Jericho Brown, "To Be Asked for a Kiss"

[overclassy]

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West, featured in The Letters of Vita Sackville West & Virginia Woolf

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[winged-thinged]

You have to let people love you. You have to let people get to know you. You have to let people help you. Being so completely selfless that you try to erase yourself off the face of the planet and never ask for anything and reject everybody's offers of support makes you very hard to love! Unfortunately. Emptying yourself out of everything that makes you, you is not actually what your loved ones want from you, generally. They want to make you happy! They will be so so sad if you don't give them the chance. It's not all selfish. I promise.

[anvael]

[gouged-doll]

vicki vola as mary magdalene, 1935

[random-brushstrokes]

Henri Biva (French, 1848-1928) - A Woodland Lake

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[godgallery]

Gustave Doré, The Divine Comedy by Dante (1892)

[fruitffish-deactivated20250218]

Landscape with Ruins (1715-18) oil on canvas by Giovanni Paolo Panini

[vintage-tigre]

Cassandra Peterson and her alter ego, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, 1980s

[paulfrankjuliusthemonkey]

I've said this before and I'll say it again: it's more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It's performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to simousltansly critique and consume media. You need to use discernment.

[paulfrankjuliusthemonkey]

This is ultimately why propaganda is going to work on you. Because you never learned how to think for yourself and the actual ideology behind things. You simply rely on group think and the bare minimum explanations to tell you what's good and bad.

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in "Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends,"

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

[anditslove]

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

[weltenwellen]

Gavin Yuan Gao, from "Lullaby"