[lightthereis]

Auguste Rodin - The Eternal Idol (1890-93)

[nobodysflower]

here is your gentle reminder that there are dandelions growing through cracks in the sidewalk. there is a fence lizard on the porch who is growing a new tail. there are trees growing through an abandoned house, branches tearing through the ceiling, ferns carpeting the floor. there is life pushing forward, pushing through. 

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[sylvain1970]

Cernunnos, sculpture en bronze de Christophe CHARBONNEL

[alphacrone]

thinking about all the “small” art that’s ever existed. songs that were only ever sung in one village. stories written by children that got lost in the shuffle. personal paintings that didn’t survive the test of time. how they affected the lives of just a few, but still existed, still mattered to someone.

[fellinesca]

31. The Man Who Sleeps (Un homme qui dort, 1974) Dir. Bernard Queysanne

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

I have dreams of you asking me better questions. Your desire to know more makes the love feel fuller. Then I open my eyes and you’re never as curious as I want

[endless-unfolding]

“but this body is home, my childhood is buried here, my sleep rises and sets inside, desire crested and wore itself thin between these bones – I live here.”

— Lisel Mueller, from “A Nude by Edward Hopper,” Poetry (July 1967)

[erowid]

De la série Kazan (Volcan)  © Mayumi Hosokura

[anancientheart]

i believe you can always get back to yourself. you can always soften into being again. no matter how long you might be stuck in a pattern of unhappiness, of being jaded, of feeling guarded from the world in some way. there is always a path back. give yourself a chance to find it.

[jaronbaker]

[vaguefiend]

Thinking a lot about how "true manhood" is used as a carrot under patriarchy - where socially ascribed masculinity is given by and large to those who enforce patriarchy - overwhelmingly privileged men.

Thinking a lot about how the threat of taking away socially ascribed masculinity - in short, the threat of someone being perceived as less masculine - is used to keep men in line under patriarchy.

Anyway marginalized men who know and insist they are men regardless of the threat of socially ascribed manhood being reduced or taken away entirely are incredibly powerful.

Refusing to believe that manhood is socially ascribed based on commitment to patriarchy and instead believing manhood stems from one's own identity is a radical belief that threatens patriarchy because it effectively nullifies one of the main enforcement tactics of patriarchy.

Trans men existing are a threat to patriarchy simply by knowing we are men in a world that insists our masculinity is only to be given as a reward for enacting patriarchy.

[escapismsworld]

Apocalyptic, terrifying art of John Martin, a long forgotten 19th century painter.

[driedrosy]

Don't sabotage your identity trying to name it. Let it be undefined, permeable, mixed, peculiar, unapologetically authentic. Be in peace with being unprecedented, with not fitting anywhere, with being adrift. Before flight, there's a free fall.

[waitineedaname]

moving away from your small shitty hometown is just. I hate this place. my best memories were formed here. my worst memories were formed here. I miss the familiarity of it all. the idea of going back makes me feel ill. I miss this specific meal I can get in my hometown. I have been exposed to so much more now that I'm gone. everyone I ever knew was here. the only people I would want to see are the ones who got out. the streets and landmarks are etched into my subconscious. I feel like a stranger when I go back. I refuse to ever live there again. it will always live inside me.

[aaresx]

Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding

[valtsv]

big fan of platonic expressions of devotion actually. yeah we're best friends of course i'd find you and hang out with you in every universe.