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gigi ✧ twentysix ✧ she/her

[like-fairy-tales]

[heavenlyyshecomes]

there is a level of seduction that exists beyond the body. something less tangible, and perhaps more potent. anais nin understood this idea about how desire does not begin with touch but with language, perception, and the sharp electric pull of a mind that challenges and excites you. in her journals, desire is not just a physical hunger but a hunger of the intellect, an unraveling of thought before an unraveling of the body. to be drawn into someone’s mind, to feel their thoughts press against your own, can be more intoxicating than any physical closeness.

—Caitlyn Richardson, 'can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?', in milk fed

[loveridden1999]

top 3 hobbies for young adults:

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

3. agonizing over the present

[04k96]

[weltenwellen]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

[nomorechoirs]

fr. “Disorder” by Vanesha Pravin

[konoko]

[velvetcloak]

joli poli

[lamignonette]

[lamignonette]

[matchagirl]

[lamignonette]

[everything111014]

[dsunearthed]

Columbus, OH, 2006

[dsunearthed]

Chrysanthemum at Shinjuku Gyoen Park, Tokyo, 2005

[beautifullytragic6]

[kosmogrl]