[syringavulgaris]

Mary Oliver, Worm Moon

[fawnave]

it was a dreamy blue sort of day 

[neshamama]

wool steiff elephant c.1912

[observando]

“I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That’s living.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

[alfareria]

All I care about is art of Fat Women 🌹💘

credits:

The Blue Room, Suzanne Valadon / GOD is coming & is she FAT! / Prehistoric Reproduction of Maltese Venus Figurine, Nigel Bewley / Sinéad O'Dwyer / Yu Xiaodong / Venus of Willendorf / Henri Matisse / Amnesia, Rolf Ohst / Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük / Mujeres con frutas, Francisco Zúñiga

[roach-works]

terrible years really make you understand the point of a new year. i know nothing much will have changed between dec 31 and jan 1, but we need to be able to partition off everything that’s happened to us, we need a moment to say, ‘that’s done, we’re done with it, it’s over’ and have a little hope that the future will be different. we need to be able to stop and take a breath and sing, in the middle of winter, and prepare ourselves for spring.

[theunvanquishedzims]

#humans live life as a story#it doesn’t have real endings and beginnings so we make them ourselves#we need them to make sense of things

[weltenwellen]

Octavio Paz, tr. by Eliot Weinberger, from “Sunstone”, The Poems of Octavio Paz

[aworldinpinkandwhite]

The Phantom of the Opera (2004, Film) - Christine’s ‘Masquerade’ dress

[klapollys]

here’s the petition!! https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/justice-saraya-rees-1

Justice for Saraya Rees | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

Justice for Saraya Rees | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

[veeranger]

i simply cannot vibe with any media that comes out with the message “to hurt each other is mankind’s base nature” because it really literally is not. you just think that because your perception of reality has been poisoned by the cruelty and desperation forced upon us by an capitalist society run by people who REJECT their human nature, not those who embrace it. 

the idea that man itself is a cruel hateful animal is simply wrong and serves nobody except people who are so skeptical of everything they get a twisted sense of satisfaction at thinking that the human heart is evil and seeing things that “prove” them right. the same kind of people who think shit like the stanford prison experiment is a snapshot of how any human being would act in that situation when it factually is not. evil is created situationally, nobody is born evil like it doesn’t work like that. to look at examples of heinousness in people and say “this is what man truly is” is such a disgustingly bleak outlook on life.

when you tell my friends you love them, when you give money to someone struggling, when you go out of your way to help a stranger, when you give back to your community, THOSE are the things that make you human. kindness, love, compassion, goodwill towards others, that’s what humanity is for, not hatred and destruction. it helps nobody to think otherwise

[thisaccisdead]

“I suppose I could spend time theorizing how it is that people are not bad to each other, but that’s really not the point. The point is that in almost every instance of our lives, our social lives, we are, if we pay attention, in the midst of an almost constant, if subtle, caretaking. Holding open doors. Offering elbows at crosswalks. Letting someone else go first. Helping with the heavy bags. Reaching what’s too high, or what’s been dropped. Pulling someone back to their feet. Stopping at the car wreck, at the struck dog. The alternating merge, also known as the zipper. This caretaking is our default mode and it’s always a lie that convinces us to act or believe otherwise. Always.” –Ross Gay, The Sanctity of Trains

[ailithnight]

Y’all know how humans became the dominant species on the planet?

We took care of each other. We grouped up in little packs, called it a family, and said “Family takes care of each other.” Small families grouped together with other families and made tribes, clans, villages; then towns, then cities, the nations. 

When there came storms and tsunamis and fires and earthquakes; we banded together and took care of each other and survived. When brother broke his leg, we took care of him until he healed. In basically every other land species, a broken leg is a death sentence because you can’t go get food or water or run from threats. We survive death sentences, and we do it by caring for each other.

So ingrained is our desire to care that we care for other animals. We care for plants. We give names to dirt and stones and stars and we care for them too. 

So intense is our need to love and be loved that isolation wrecks havoc on our mental health. There is no pain worse than the simple thought that one is truly and utterly alone. 

Human Nature is Love. Human Nature has always been Love. It is the defining feature of our species. We evolved to Care and that made us strong.

[itsivyberry]

Rest In Peace, you beautiful soul. I’m so sorry we failed you. You will always be remembered. I promise.

[1-800-everywhere]

sometimes i just wanna be one of those renaissance girls from the paintings with all my friends and our titties are out and we’re in the water and its summer and if my friend kisses me, she kisses me you know? no big deal! we could have a wedding right here in this lake with our titties out girl, i love you 

[michonnegrimes]

Anya Taylor-Joy’s EMMA. outtakes

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

i told you that we can pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars and you’re laughing. we could really use a wish right now and you’re laughing

[dsamoomin]

Elle fanning on set for the Beguiled 

New Orleans, November 2016 

[firstfullmoon]

“We held hands. I was wondering what it would be like to have a home of your own where you could come and go, where people would be welcome, where you would never be frightened again.”

— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via luthienne)

[catcrumb]