[danitykaneforchristopherkane]

[theodorafrompluto]

St. George and the Dragon (circa 1860)

by Josef Mánes

[geopsych]

Glorious first morning light in my neighborhood. The ginkgoes which you see here on the right are starting to turn!

[atypicalmee-deactivated20250611]

my current inspiration: studio ghibli characters working hard at what they love

[generic-eric]

[cyberxbattalion]

[free-my-mindd]

So True

[broodboard001]

[kostisfokas]

[weltenwellen]

Sometimes, when I'm careless, I think survival is easy: you just keep moving forward with what you have, or what's left of what you were given, until something changes—or you realize, at last, that you can change without disappearing, that all you had to do was wait until the storm passes you over and you find that—yes—your name is still attached to a living thing.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

[vaporwavesimulator]

i am fine thank you for asking! though recently there has been a darkness growing within me

[sweatermuppet]

love & isolation are so strange because in solitude, u create all these perfect scenarios for your imaginary darling—you would cut them fruit & dance in the kitchen & always kiss them twice in case the first one doesn't take properly—but as soon as you're given the chance, you fumble. it's so mortifying, having not practiced but taken so much time to plan it out, & you finally get your shot & you can hardly hold their hand or meet their eyes. you want love so badly & you've been deprived of others for so long, your actual capability is distorted. you wince at their touch or can only leave them small gifts when you're out of the room. the intensity increases, the thought that you don't deserve softness heightens. it's a terrible cycle: wanting & wanting & letting that want turn to a festering that ruins it before you can reel yourself back

[ampazourvskomodino]

“You must try to grow up again and face what you have to face without being irritable or hurt that someone did not understand.”

— Ernest Hemingway from Garden of Eden

[ivan-bilibin]

Illustration for “The tale of three royal divah and the Ivashko priest’s son”, 1911, Ivan Bilibin

[noveltytwist-deactivated2026052]

Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan, by Tom Bricker

[thisseethingcoast]

“When we choose growth over perfection, we immediately increase our shame resilience. Improvement is a far more realistic goal than perfection. Merely letting go of unattainable goals makes us less susceptible to shame. When we believe “we must be this” we ignore who or what we actually are, our capacity and our limitations. We start from the image of perfection, and of course, from perfection there is nowhere to go but down.”

— Brené Brown (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[jareckiworld]

Gonkar Gyatso  —  Ambivalent Resolution   (stickers, paper collage, pencil, marker, polyurethane finish on resin sculpture, 2013)