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julia, 27 madrid

[thedarlingchild]

[imundateable]

Photographs of American teenagers taken by Joseph Szabo, 1969-1988.

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

blue jacaranda blossom in 昆明kunming, yunnan province of china

[gardesavant]

how the FUCK are people creative. like how do they read watch movies go to exhibits and then create so much. fuck I feel like I'm broken tbh

[gardesavant]

im not meant to work 40 hours a week

[gardesavant]

I feel like I always need something, always lacking something, always needing to be prettier, smarter, better... it's exhausting and I don't know how to escape it

[despazito]

[shisasan]

April, 1932 The diary of Anaïs Nin [Volume One: 1931-1934]

[primulaceas]

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

[heysayretro]

[stuckinapril]

I’m fine

[stuckinapril]

I need divine intervention

[petaltexturedskies]

There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn't that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life.

Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides; Tragedy: A Curious Art Form

[writhe]

Astronauts talking about viewing the earth from the moon, from The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-Transcendent Experience in Space Flight

[anxeious]

[onthefloorinthedirtwiththefilth]

notice how last night was all filmed in one take

[typhlonectes]

[thereignclub-trc]

Life is right now. While you’re waiting for your dream job, your future spouse, your goal weight, a new home, a change in appearance. Life is happening while you are working on mastering a skill, being in the unknown, not knowing which way to go, feeling stuck. Most of life happens in the waiting. Not in the achievements or successes which are nothing but milestones. Don’t wish the time you have away waiting for something that lives in the future. Look around. What does today offer that you might not want to miss?