Thought Crimes

art · literature · mythology · philosophy · quotes

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Margaret Llewyn Davis, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

[seikilos-stele]

Ursula K. Le Guin

[razorshapes]

Detail of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night (1889)

[humanoidhistory]

Comet Donati in the sky on October 5, 1858, illustrated in Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt by Edmund Weiss. (Wikimedia Commons)

[petaltexturedskies]

Franz Kafka, in a diary entry dated 1 July 1914, from The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923

[nixscriptum]

[colubrina]

for the love of god, write all the self-indulgent scenes you want.  be utterly  shameless about including every last fantasy.  i know everyone likes to share quotes and quips about how miserably hard writing is, but please please try thinking of it as a joyful act where you get to be a messy human who makes art rather than some pain filled quest for icy perfection.

[colubrina]

“authenticity looks an awful lot like self-indulgence but it is the only way to find your true audience”

[roycohn]

there's an old anne rice interview circulating on twitter rn that i remember reading ages ago where she makes a pretty salient point about how submissive men who have bdsm fantasies etc will go to a sex worker and basically order the ala carte version of their fantasy to be performed in real life but women don't really have that same option and certainly not at the same point of availability so they read her horny books instead. and honestly that argument has been in the back of my mind every time people get on their high horses about the popularity of booktok romantasy novels or heated rivalry or whatever the "women are horny and we're upset about that" cultural property du jour is ever since. women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.

[nixscriptum]

[feral-ballad]

Carrie Fountain, from Burn Lake; “Want”

[litkitkat]

kingslayer

[literaryvein]

L. V., conversations in the dark

[dilemarhoom]

[nixscriptum]

[pmamtraveller]

"Danse macabre" (2023), acrylic painting created by the Iranian artist Bahman Pezeshkzad.

[fragodot]

Wassily Kandinsky, Paysage près de Murnau avec une locomotive, 1909

[iidamiidam]

Untitled #369

[apesoformythoughts]

“One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.”

— P.G. Wodehouse