palabras que son flores

ari. 29. usa. they/them. grad student & collector of pretty things

[crumbofmoon]

i fuck with this heavily

[toiich]

Ran (1985), dir. Akira Kurosawa

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"dad's kitchen," amy bradstreet (2008)

[2022dirt]

A camera can capture the exact moment lightning briefly turns night into day.

[lekythoi]

may 2026 • mirror dimension at whitstable beach

[perriaeyjeve]

[tordenvejr]

[honeyluvsw]

penguin pngs ! credit not necessary for pngs! like or reblog to use, don't repost as your own please.

[hellish-daddi]

[losangelesqueens]

Feminists might kill joy simply by not finding the objects that promise happiness to be quite so promising. The word feminism is thus saturated with unhappiness. Feminists by declaring themselves as feminists are already read as destroying something that is thought of by others not only as being good but as the cause of happiness. The feminist killjoy “spoils” the happiness of others; she is a spoilsport because she refuses to convene, to assemble, or to meet up over happiness.

Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy?

Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?

Feminists do kill joy in a certain sense: they disturb the very fantasy that happiness can be found in certain places. To kill a fantasy can still kill a feeling. It is not just that feminists might not be happily affected by the objects that are supposed to cause happiness but that their failure to be happy is read as sabotaging the happiness of others.

The Promise of Happiness by Sara Ahmed

[wovi]

[timkarr]

Homes. Jocotenango, Guatemala, 2024.

[cheshire-castle-library]

The worst thing I've had to learn over this PhD is that thinking takes time. And sometimes that time looks like you are fucking around.

[urgetocreate]

Timothy A. Matthew (British b.1980), Boho Kittys on a Lazy Sunlit Sunday, 2016, Oil on canvas

[haverst]

Stanisław Dróżdż, Alea icta est (2003)

[pmamtraveller]

Eclipse Table Lamp, from 1960s Brazil.

[xanaxfarts]

Jenny Holzer: ‘Inflammatory Essays’ (1979-1982)