dry with longing

quotidian inspiration — sometimes I write @ tumblr.com/loverlostleeway

[setonix-shibari]

My top 12 photos of 2024 (originally posted on fetlife)

[songsomi]

Baldur's Gate 3 - Orin the Red + Details

[mirrorsinner]

[lostfunzones]

Siouxsie Sioux as Bastet, the Egyptian Cat Goddess, (1988) Derek Ridgers.

[itscolossal]

A Candy-Colored Cloud Hovers Over a West Texas Landscape Mid-Thunderstorm

[sanstoitniloi]

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

[expressions-of-nature]

Caddo Lake, Texas by Fred R Cox

[fravery]

Blue Birch Marsh, 2024 by Jef Bourgeau.

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: i often asked myself / do i want love / or do i want proof that i am loveable?]

[kafk-a]

“Each of us is given only so many mornings to do it— to look around and love,”

— Mary Oliver, ‘The Deer,’ from House of Light

[netego]

“the need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth”

— Georges Bataille

[antigonick]

“[You], eater of moonlight, drinker Of brightness, feet of jewels On the mountain, velvet feet In the meadow grass, darkness Braided with wild roses—”

— Kenneth Rexroth, excerpt of “Maroon Bells”, in Sacramental Acts

[thecolorblockcurator]

The Nixie in the Goldfish Pond, Franz Hein

[dearestvita-deactivated20221122]

“There is no special love exclusively reserved for romantic partners. Genuine love is the foundation of our engagement with ourselves, with family, with friends, with partners, with everyone we choose to love.”

— bell hooks, from All About Love: New Visions

[ochyming-deactivated20220410]

JUDY CHICAGO    

USA, b. 1939   

BIRTH TRINITY QUILT, 1983   

Quilt tapestry 44 x 124 in. | 111.8 x 315 cm.

[mymodernmet]

Enthralled by fabric and guided by her intuition, artist Mariko Kusumoto creates sculptures inspired by the things that fascinate her. 

[charli-xcx]

lizzobeeating: THE QUEEN IS BORED… NA WHO FINNA ENTERTAIN HER? introducing.. “MISS HAIR CHAIR 2021”🍯