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[filmzilla]

Supermarket Woman (1996) dir. Juzo Itami

[oldpaintings]

Swans, c.1921 by Frank Brangwyn (Welsh, 1867–1956)

[paulnewoman]

Gay USA (1977) dir. Arthur J. Bressan Jr.

[ledbythreads]

The text is from a poem by Black Lesbian poet Pat Parker (pictured) . My copy is from Naming The Waves Contemporary Lesbian Poetry - ed Christian McEwan 1988.

[myvintageanime]

[thanams45]

“Maurice” directed by James Ivory, 1987

[good-for-nothingturd]

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell, 1984

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“I’m afraid I can’t explain myself…Because I am not myself, you see?” - Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

[good-for-nothingturd]

I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess i was a mystery even to myself.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante...

[good-for-nothingturd]

And by two, i mean me and myself.

[good-for-nothingturd]

It does suck.

[bellsandforks]

[good-for-nothingturd]

“Mothers are all slightly insane.”

(J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye)

[good-for-nothingturd]

“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”

(F. Scott Fitzgerald)