isle of lesbos

If you forget me, think of our gifts to Aphrodite and all the loveliness that we shared "all the violet tiaras, braided rosebuds, dill and crocus twined around your young neck "myrrh poured on your head and on soft mats girls with all that they most wished for beside them "while no voices chanted choruses without ours, no woodlot bloomed in spring without song...

[pmamtraveller]

Luca Ponsato - Does Anyone See My Suffering

[kosmogrl]

[weltenwellen]

Warsan Shire, from "Extreme Girlhood", Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

carl jung girl you were so right about avoidance

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

“if we don't accept our own destiny, a different kind of suffering takes its place: a neurosis develops, and I believe that that life which we have to live is not as bad as a neurosis. if I have to suffer, then let it be from my reality. a neurosis is a much greater curse! in general, a neurosis is a replacement for an evasion, an unconscious desire to cheat life, to avoid something. one cannot do more than live what one really is. and we are all made up of opposites and conflicting tendencies. after much reflection, I have come to the conclusion that it is better to live what one really is and accept the difficulties that arise as a result-because avoidance is much worse.”

[funeral]

Carl Jung, Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice (The Tavistock Lectures)

[thandelyon]

✨Black Women on Identity ✨

[mariamiikh]

[fapper]

Eau eau eau

[ruinedchildhood]

Tigers with a frozen milk brick on a hot day

[modelsof-color]

Toto Matoch at Miss Sohee Couture Summer 2026

[ghostgrammar]

[paper-wounds]

[beardedmrbean]

[opossum-handz]

[weltenwellen]

Aimee Seu, from "In Flux: 25"

[twinsfawn]

anyone else feel like there will always be a veil of separation between them and the rest of the world and that they’ll never actually be understood or is that just me

[ryebreadgf]

From The Original by Nell Steven

[pleasuresoftheduke]

A Homage to Sappho | Norman Lindsay (C.1928)