[fairydrowning]

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

– George Orwell

[free-my-mindd]

-Anaïs Nin, 1939

[sonhodehibisco]

Flowers by Irving Penn

[feral-ballad]

Choi Jin-young, tr. by Soje, from Hunger

[rosieandthemoon]

Art Nouveau era bat brooch

[metamorphesque]

Getting Lost, Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer)

[feral-ballad]

Elizabeth Metzger, from Lying In: Poems; “Every Child Alone”

[feral-ballad]

Elizabeth Metzger, from Lying In: Poems; “Roach”

[horror-aesthete]

The Lure (Córki Dancingu), 2015, dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska

[modelsof-color]

Migoa Guol by King Axle for Wonderland Magazine August 2025

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Melissa Cox

[tenderstems]

various sacred hearts (damien hirst; tim tate; antique ex-voto; 19th c. french religious card; 19th c. french reliquary; repousee antique; carved wood frame c. 1890-1920; unknown painting)

[weltenwellen]

Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

[highoffculture]

[pyritetears-deactivated20260218]

compton, 1987. archive taken by my mother.

[hel7l7]

I try to get away Two fingered gun reaches down between my legs, finds the hot center of my body, stays there until I tingle and smile, chest heaving which each shuddering breath. Touch myself until I feel nothing real, till I become my own fantasy, use myself up like they taught me to I like to say I've grown but most days I feel like nothing has changed

[weirdtvland]

Desiree West for Playboy, 1970s.