cosmic bruises

eugenia | forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit

[huariqueje]

Little Person - Seula Yi , 2019.

South Korean , b. 1990 -

Pigment inks print on "fine art" 210 gr paper. 29.7x 42 cm .

[a-typical]

You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.

― Carl Sagan, Contact

[vizuart]

L. Birge Harrison - Fifth Avenue at Twilight (c. 1910)

[vlindervin7]

“Love him,” said Jacques, with vehemence, “love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? And how long, at the best, can it last, since you are both men and still have everywhere to go? Only five minutes, I assure you, only five minutes, and most of that, hélas! in the dark. And if you think of them as dirty, then they will be dirty—they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing, you will be despising your flesh and his. But you can make your time together anything but dirty; you can give each other something which will make both of you better—forever—if you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe.” (…) “Somebody,” said Jacques, “your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour—and in the oddest places!—for the lack of it.”

- Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

[sawasawako-archived]

“It was around then that I realized for the first time that falling in love is like being haunted. Even before I opened my eyes in the morning, you would slip in under my eyelids. When I opened them, you instantly transferred to the ceiling, the wardrobe, the windowpane, the street, the far-off sky, and glimmered there like dappled light. You haunted me more persistently than I imagine any ghost ever could.”

– Greek Lessons, Han Kang, trans. Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won

[commonplacenook]

Life is only bearable because time makes you forget everything. But life is only worthwhile because love makes you remember everything.

Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land

[meatppie666]

some color studies

[firstfullmoon]

“For if there was no man out there who was equal and simpatico, then what was the point of being gay? The baggage and the shit you had to take were bad enough. But it all jogged into place when we met, everything I’d brooded over from the ancient Greeks to Whitman. It all ceased to be literary. My life was a sort of amnesia till then, longing for something that couldn’t be true until I’d found the rest of me. Is that feeling so different in straight people? Or is it that gay people have to keep it secret and so grow divided, with a bachelor’s face to the world and a pang like dying inside?”

— Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (via engulfes)

[holly-warbs]

swim

[lesbianherstorian]

excerpts from an interview with kathee muzin about the first time she fell in love with another woman, published in the montreal gazette, december 1991

[historyisinthemaking]

But a gay man seeks his history in mythic fragments, random as blocks of stone in the ruins covered in Greek characters. We have the poems of Sappho because the one rolled linen copy stoppered a wine jug in a cave, and the blanks are the words the acid of the wine has eaten away. Fragments are all you get. You jigsaw the rest with your heart.

Paul Monette, Borrowed Time

[palestinian-fundraising]

As pride month begins, let us not forget our Palestinian brothers and sisters.

[sofiialyt]

the last but no the least alta power couple, completing the series ~

love them all 💚💙🧡

[kataraslove]

ships so good they get official artwork depicting their connection as spiritual

[starfilledsea]

trying to describe black sails to people is my personal sisyphean task. “it’s a pirate show” bad. “it’s functionally a prequel to treasure island but also it’s not at all” bad again, and also confusing. “it’s about pirates trying to destroy western civilization” mostly only true of the second half of the show and also doesn’t fully capture what i love about it. “it’s a pirate show about the power of stories, how civilization uses shame to keep people in line and turns them into monsters, and the power of queer rage. it’s got some of the best acting, writing, everything of any show i’ve ever seen.” the most accurate, but way too long and makes me sound pretentious and insane. send help i just want to talk about my favorite show.

[maraslesbian]

sometimes i think about the fact that black sails took one of the most famous pirate figures in fiction and decided to make the reason he became a pirate that he was gay, and that the man he loved was killed for it. and that this loss fueled a pure and complete hatred of england and its empire, which then developed into actual revolutionary reflections and an understanding of the violence of colonization that then lead him to organize alongside former slaves and local populations to fight for the liberation of the american colonies from british rule. and it's like. what the fuck man. truly the show of all time

[gaysexofficial]

based off this post by @75screamingtoads that made me start watching. as you can see my art gets progressively worse each panel lol