[mymotherlaughs]

“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. I love the blue sky, I love some people, whom one loves sometimes without knowing why. I love some great deeds done by men, though I’ve long ceased perhaps to have faith in them, yet from old habit one’s heart prizes them. I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via freelance-philosopher)

[jinxproof]

Clara Aker Benjamin

[grendel-menz]

I hope you know that it’s always this

[wildhood]

cut through the park on my way home from the cinema

[perriaeyjeve]

[51316120825]

src

[chillpotato]

Mieko Kawakami, from 'Heaven'

[worldscoolest]

[lemondenexistepas]

Possession - A. Zulawski

[2well2water]

ten years of Moonlight AND The Handmaiden. like at least we have that.

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[hyenaswine]

this is true, but it is not bioessentialist. both cis & trans men WILL see a mouse & eat it. this is because it is in their best interest to eat mice. they benefit from eating mice. this is essential to their class position, not their biological makeup.

[dykeselfcest]

Dearest. … If I had only had courage enuf to kill myself when you reached the climax then—then I would have known happiness, for at that moment I had complete possession of you. Now you see the yearning I am possessed with—the yearning to possess you at all times and it is impossible. What greater suffering can there be—what greater heaven—what greater hell? And how the will to live sticks in me when I wish to live after possessing you. Satisfied? Ah God, no! At this moment I am listening to the rhythm of the pulse coming thru your throat. I am surg[ing] along with your life blood, coursing thru the secret places of your body.

Letter from Almeda Sperry to Emma Goldman, 1912, quoted in Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

[lamignonette]

[miamaimania]

“The Greek Garden” ギリシャ庭園 ≋ Peter Skov

[tridentandtales]

Two wall paintings from a Pompeian house, the first one depicting Apollo and Cassandra, and the second one Paris of Troy and Helen of Sparta (with the inscription identifying them)

Pictures from here

[lolitas-steampunk-dream]

[perriaeyjeve]