killyourbabies

(she/her) 21 and insane 

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

The Sacrificial Lamb by Josefa de Óbidos, 1670

[ducissatenebrarum]

For the first time in art history, the powerful depictions of "Saturn Devouring His Son" by Rubens (Left) and Goya (Right) are being presented together.

[geryone]

I know I said I was finished but genuinely full on sobbed reading this page again so I’m subjecting everyone to it

[youngestdaughtersyndrome-deacti]

does anyone have the post thats a leonard cohen quote talking about being empty

[youngestdaughtersyndrome-deacti]

nvm found it

[weltenwellen]

V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[weltenwellen]

Chen Chen, from "weep ode #99"

[juliaxyn]

Keep calm drink coffee and keep on Studying 📚✨

[soracities]

Hamed Ashour, excerpt of "From Anas Al-Yaziji to his fiancé, Shaima Abu Al-Ouf, whose body he recovered after two days of searching", pub. Peripheries [ID'd]

[bibliotheca-sanctus]

St Peter’s Abbey in the Black Forest, Schwarzwald, Germany

[mortalityplays]

one of the most important things, perhaps the most important thing I have learned in my life is that nice people can fuck each other up in monstrous ways. people can be bone deep kind and loving and self reflective and still lash out under pressure. people can be earnestly neighbourly and charitable and hospitable and generous and still find themselves in situations where they become selfish. people can be well meaning and easygoing and gregarious and hold deep seated opinions that turn them into vicious little bullies under the right conditions. nobody is just one thing, and nobody stays one way. every person is a kaleidoscope and they will surprise you. you will surprise yourself. it's not a warning and it's not a judgement and it's not an excuse, and it's certainly not a reason to stop trying or to stop trusting. it is just a fact.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Showgirls playing chess backstage at the Latin Quarter, 1958.

Photo: Gordon Parks via boredpanda

[soracities]

Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man [ID'd]

[aerithpilled]

the butch/femme scene of 1990s san francisco by chloe sherman

[toyfemme]

[ibtisams-deactivated20240709]

A report just came out from a Palestinian hostage saying he was strapped with bombs and sent into a Hamas tunnel, with Israel prepared to blow the tunnel up with his body if fighters were found inside and yet people are still making the “Hamas uses human shields” arguments that have been confirmed to be a myth with no supporting evidence

[el-shab-hussein]

Every zionist accusation is a confession.

[heritageposts]

The Palestinian, who wished to be identified only by his first name and was released two days ago, said he was one of the dozens of men seen in photographs and video bound and stripped to their underwear by Israeli troops. One soldier, he recalled, told him he wanted to send him to his God, before taking him to a Hamas tunnel. “He made me wear a belt filled with explosives, and placed a GoPro camera on my head along with a rope around my waist,” Hakim told MEE. According to the Palestinian, he was then pushed into the tunnel and ordered to explore it to see if there were any fighters inside. “They were prepared to explode the tunnel using my body if the camera on my head showed any fighters inside,” he said. “I was 100 percent sure I was going to be killed at that moment, but then they pulled me out of the tunnel when they found nothing inside.” According to Hakim, a 15-year-old boy was subjected to the same treatment. The boy, who had been detained with Hakim, survived and was released three days later, he said.

[greelin]

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

[greelin]

what the FUCK man.

[vampiricvenus]

Just want every young person terrified of becoming older than 23-25 to know that I'm currently 32 and my 20s were fucking miserable and while life isn't wholly perfect right now I wouldn't trade my 30s for my 20s for the LIFE of me. The idea feels as ridiculous as trading my 20s for being in high school. FUCK no. And I'm sure at 42 I'll feel similarly to my 30s and so on and so forth. Embrace the passage of time and be grateful that you get the privilege of growing old, bitch. Life's sooooo much better past your mid 20s.

[vampiricvenus]

I did have issues with growing older when I was in my early 20s but it had to do with my suicidality that had me convinced I wouldn't make it past 21, and trauma that lead to me feeling I never got to be a child and I just kept getting older and older.

Despite that, it's been very shocking and sad to see in the notes how many people are in disbelief that not only life can be better after 25 than before, but that it can be any good at all?

As if, if you didn't get to experience joy before 25, then you won't ever get the chance to experience it anymore because life can't possibly be worth living after 25. Like all that exists beyond the threshold of 25 is a drag of misery and nothingness.

And I don't blame young people for having this vision of life after 25. I know it comes from media's youth bias especially when it comes to women, capitalist propaganda, and miserable old people taking their misery out on younger people.

It's just so sad? It's so sad to see how many of you are convinced that it's all downhill from there with no positives, to the point that when a bunch of adults way past that damned threshold of 25 tell you in a post and its notes that life DOES get so much better in your 30s for so many of us... You all are still in disbelief?

It's not just me. It's pretty much every person in their early 30s I know. None of us would go back to being 20. Compared to our 30s? It was awful. We're so much happier and freer now.

Is it ALL of us? Of course not. For a myriad of reasons you can still be miserable in your 30s, even if you do have money, resources, good health, friends, family and success. But in general, most of us wouldn't go back to our 20s for anything short of a few million dollars, if that.