[luxobnubilata]

Nuri Iyem (Turkish, 1915–2005) Lover’s Flower , 1993

[borekbitch]

I think I have one of his paintings at home

[borekbitch]

On annual leave and the first things I do are watch a video about limerence and romantic obsession and then read a philosophy paper about the phenomenology of agoraphobia (yes another one), I’m trying to look after myself this holiday and it’s already going well - Inshallah this continues!

[schaduwen-deactivated20220817]

i post for the girls who were lonely and isolated during peak social developmental years

[borekbitch]

lmao me

[honeyou-deactivated20220922]

[borekbitch]

This is why I love short guys

[seinfeld-daily]

[fiercetransgirls]

Sylvia Rivera calling out gays and lesbians for their trans exclusion in 1973 at the Christopher Street Liberation Day rally (x)

[theothersiiide]

Still relevant

[russianspacegeckosexparty]

And if I’m not mistaken, Sylvia Rivera was *specifically* addressing WHITE gays and white feminists here. She called out these middle/upper class white folks who strove only for assimilation while neglecting Black and brown LGBT people who were poor and struggling and languishing in prison. White Gays and feminists didn’t like the way revolutionary figures like Sylvia were “rocking the boat”

Specification is important here because antiblackness and racism are still rampant in the LGBT community and Black + brown LGBT folks have had to make communities of our own because white LGBT people ostracize us.

[lichrelly]

baby girl u are a very freak and straange. iam deeplu in love with u

[dhrupad]

सूरज का सातवां घोड़ा Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda The Seventh Horse of the Sun (1992)

[borekbitch]

Finished the fourth iteration of a 5 day experiment, involved working throughout the weekend and bank holiday so now I’m taking a day off tomorrow at my parents house. With my parents now and they are watching this very weird Turkish film set in the city about some guy called Aziz lol.

[borekbitch]

Honestly staring out of the window as the uber drives from Whitechapel to north London is such a vibe, weird feelings of anticipation/yearning I only felt at age 24, I get to access through this window only. Then it’s back to stoic lab dungeon life.

[borekbitch]

I’m so glad I didn’t give up on this Rachel Cusk book “saving Agnes” just because it was so anglo lol. I am still not that invested in Agnes as a character but I’m enjoying the story and the writing.

[borekbitch]

New guy moved into the flat on Wednesday. Extremely talkative/friendly guy from Scotland. I’ve been working everyday since last week including the weekend and bank holiday but we have been chatting pretty much every evening since he moved here and last night he asked to see my room and then we ended up chatting till quite late on my balcony. The vibes got so strange as though we were both drunk so we barely spoke to eachother today, although he texted me to show me some art by a Turkish woman artist he saw at the tate modern.

[hazelnutrosewaterpomegranate]

People Reading in Osman Hamdi Bey Paintings:

the scholar, 1878

young woman reading, 1880

islamic theologian with koran, 1902

the fountain of life, 1904

a young emir studying, 1905

[Osman Hamdi Bey, 1840-1910, was an Ottoman painter, curator, archaeologist, administrator and intellectual from Istanbul]

[justcatposts]

Grandpa teaches how to bathe a baby. Guess who’s his voluntary assistant. 

(Source)

[borekbitch]

I’ve never seen a cat more sedate than this

[borekbitch]

I had a romantic dream about one of my best friends which was strange because I don’t feel romantic about her as such in real life but in my dream the atmosphere was very romantic and even quite sexy lol. All that happened was we walked to the beach side by side with our arms touching or maybe I had my arm around her shoulders at some point, and then we lay down next to each other by the sea. Nothing sexual happened in the dream but I woke up feeling a bit crush like about my friend lol.

[cinematapestry]

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014) dir. Ana Lily Amirpour

[borekbitch]

Want to rewatch this soon, but I’ve always wanted to rewatch it with a cute person.

[borekbitch]

what even is my life at this point I’m just a girl that works and works