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Tragedy is precisely that love exists but loses.

[andwhatexcellentboiledpotatoes]

I am so sick and tired of having to charge stuff every day of my miserable life!! My phone, my watch, my headphones, my vibrator, my backup vibrator, my emergency vibrator, the ancient cursed amulet of darkness that whispers to me....it's too much!!!

[yurucamp]

character design commission c:

[blasteffect]

The clearest image of Venus ever taken !

by Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft

[rherlotshadow]

Bluebells and birdsong

[softinvasions]

I'm the copy of a copy of a copy of a woman, you're the copy of a copy of a copy of a guy, but the way we behave towards each other makes me think that even this could be a lie.

DOMINO by @squalloscope. Collage assembled from National Geographic cuttings. Nov. 2023

[deathandmysticism]

Crypt of the Cathedral of Bremen, Germany, 1922

[everseasons]

A detail from the 1847 marble sculpture "Woman Bitten by a Serpent" (Femme piquée par un serpent) by French sculptor Auguste Clésinger.

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Old 19th century books with gauffered page edges .. Repeated patterns made using a heated tool

[slut4margiela]

[both-death-and-maiden]

Source of the makeup artist (Elena Devin)

[portalibis]

Sphinx, Greco-Roman, BnF

P.I. Telegram / P.I. Facebook

[kisseism]

"omg you remembered!" of course i did. I have a file on you

[gothredy]

[both-death-and-maiden]

Source (@tuukzs)

[holdingcaulfields]

on identity

ojibwe / noah kahan / richard siken / unknown / elliott smith / oamisoa / cameron awkward-rich

[both-death-and-maiden]

Source of the 4th quote (Kim Quindlen, article for Thought Catalog)

[sovietpostcards]

Tamara Yufa. Illustrations for Karelian Folk Tales (1976).

[ismenes]

When my son was about to turn two, strangers would offer condolences. There’s a collective cultural dread of toddlers, who get described more like animals than people. Kids in their "terrible twos," I was warned, are illogical, unregulated, and feral. "Good luck," people would say. "He'll grow out of it."

I'm lucky: My son is a very easygoing kid. But I remember the first tantrum he threw for me. He was standing by our front door and asked to go outside. So I opened the door and grabbed his shoes. But as soon as he stepped onto the porch, he pointed back into the house.

"Inside," he said.

"Okay," I said. I picked him up and brought him inside.

But as soon as I shut the front door, he pointed outside.

"Outside!" he said.

You know where this is going. We went back and forth, inside and outside, again and again. He got more frustrated. And I got more frustrated. Eventually he wound up straddling the threshold of our house, sobbing. When I tried to comfort him, he screamed at me. "You go wherever you want!" I said. He just got madder. I felt trapped, convinced he’d concocted the whole episode as a pretext to unleash his rage at me. It was ridiculous. I consoled myself with the thought that he was just being a toddler.

But later I kept thinking about him wailing at our front door, one foot inside, one foot outside. His misery wasn't unreasonable, or trivial, or silly. My son was experiencing the agony of wanting two things that were impossible to have at the same time. What a fundamentally human sorrow! My son wasn't being a toddler; he was being a person. Adults may not walk around howling, but that same pain rages within us. In that moment, as a father, I was powerless to solve my son's problem. I told him he could go wherever he wanted, but of course I was wrong. To be where he wanted was impossible.

Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children by Mac Barnett

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

leather bound 19th century books with marbled page edges and gilt details

[unpardonablesins]

art + lemony snicket

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