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o sol e a lua,

[taidei]

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[wjindam]

the gentle color of melancholy blue…a novella

genre. literary fiction

status. draft 01

goal. + 30k

narration. first person, joel liebel-petit

themes. ptsd, growing through trauma, unhealthy coping mechanisms, anti-semitism, class differences, mommy issues, the importance of art, tea as a metaphor for love, archaeology, nature is healing, the storm is inside the man. 

 summary. 

joel petit lives with bones and ghosts. when his second mother dies in the spring, he returns to paris to see off her remains and digest their tumultuous relationship with bottles of expensive champagne and the shreds of her last poems. he expects: disappointment, a distraction from his degree in archaeology, more trips to the bar than healthy. 

instead he finds: ash yentl, a slightly mad artist whose paintings crawl into joel’s skin, tearing through memories he’d long buried. as they begin to connect through shared memories of ink and loss, joel finds himself on a cliff side by the sea digging up dinosaur bones with ash by his side. but as each rib of his new, silent life settles into place, ash begins to spiral deeper into his insanity and a storm takes to the waters, ready to destroy each stone of their steady existence.

death has a way of perfecting things- stilling the features, encasing something that had once been so delicate in a film of permanence that could not be touched. it weaved stories of bones and blood and cells within its cold, forever grasp. it forced you to remember,  and that was a hauntingly devastating thing. 

general taglist (ask to be +/-):@tsainami @purgatoryforever @noloumna

[diyas]

not knowing if someone hates u or if u’re projecting ur self loathing tendencies on to them 

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Interactive :: House Saints by Hala Alyan

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?”

— Don DeLillo, White Noise (via the-book-diaries)

[candyver]

If something about your chart doesn't add up to your personality I'm sorry but the stars do not take into account the mental illness 😔

[nooonbinaryyyy]

yeah sure say fuck you to jk rowling but dont forget to like. actually support trans women.

[nooonbinaryyyy]

Donate to the Trans Women of Colour Coalition

Stop using the word femboy

“Men in dresses” jokes aren’t funny they’re just transmisogynistic. Stop making them and stop supporting creators who make them.

Stop engaging with terfs. it doesn’t matter if you’re proving them wrong, you’re still giving them a platform. block them and move on.

Install shinigami eyes

Stop insisting trans women can’t use he/him pronouns or dress “masculinely”

Stop insisting trans women have to medically transition to be “real women”

Donate to the homeless black trans women fund

Read some books by trans women

Check out the Trans*Scribe category on Autostraddle

Donate to or volunteer at the San Francisco LGBT Center (they run the Trans Employment Program)

[diyas]

i rly feel very . scared idek why

[klassizismus]

A Foxglove in Bloom, 1592, by Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617)

[vacuumchan]

sleep.

[syua]

literally most things that people write off as just ‘textures’ to use in graphics are stolen & unsourced material created by artists or photographers NOT meant to be used as elements in projects without royalty payments. you can say ‘it’s just random tumblr posts they don’t care’ but you wouldn’t want someone to take your work and edit into their work so they can be praised for their beautiful style and creativity even if they just post it on social media w/o profit, would you?? so maybe if you browse pinterest or google images for pictures without finding the original source, you’re using images that you’re not allowed to use without realizing it.

you see it on here a lot especially in (i won’t link anything but i’m sure you know what i mean) those album track ‘aesthetics’ posts, au ‘aesthetic’ posts (ie where people use ‘pinterest-y’ images to kinda craft a visual au), and even just rather typical graphics that have a lot of ‘texture’ elements. and texture packs too!! that’s often where the problem starts; people just collect images (often literal art), compile them in a folder w/o sources, then insist no one can repost those images w/o crediting the person who compiled them. what???

SO may i suggest some of my fave places you can get FREE, ROYALTY-FREE elements that are totally legal to use

creativemarket has 6 free high-quality resources (textures, brushes, fonts, etc), different every week! wow awesome i check it every week

search ‘freebie’ on behance. awesome stuff!!! lots of v nice templates textures and fonts

mockup zone freebies

unsplash: tons of very nice free photographs, not shitty stock photos

pexels: same idea. + they have an adobe plugin so you can get photos without closing your editor damn nice

as to not make this too long: spoongraphics, lostandtaken (textures galore), pixeden, freebiesbug.

[nobrashfestivity]

Maurits Cornelis Escher , Birds

[weltenwellen]

I am intrigued

[boysaints]

excerpt from dead man’s float by Leela Raj-Sankar, published in Ghost Heart Lit 

taglist under the cut (ask to be +/-):

Keep reading

[boysaints]

excerpt from october love song by Leela Raj-Sankar, published in Lumiere Review Issue II

taglist under the cut (ask to be +/-):

Keep reading

[samezukas-deactivated20171227]

so i don’t think a lot of people really understand how often south asian culture is misinterpreted and appropriated so i’m making a post about it right here.

any mention of third eyes

any mention of chakras

people wearing bindis when they shouldn’t be 

fucking “om” or “aum” tattoos or appliques on things like yoga pants. do you know how fucking disrespectful it is to put a symbol that is so important to my religion and culture on the ass of some white chick’s yoga pants

people wearing maang tikka when they shouldn’t be

anklets with bells on them are very important to the dance culture of south asia and it’s disrespectful to wear them outside of a traditional dance setting

feel free to add any more that i missed because i’m fucking tired

[ahyeonpark]