how dare you?

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[nazarjoon]

rug inspired by bakhtiari rugs 🌱

[nazarjoon]

available as a print & sticker sheet

[7dmom]

Now I might be stupid. I might be a fool. I might be an idiot who doesn't know how to read. I might desvere to be beaten and shocked and electrocuted for not knowing anything. I might deserve to be run over with cars and thrown into the sea and frozen to death and torn apart by foxes and given paper cuts between my toes until I bleed out and then smacked with a big rock until I die because I know so few things. But I think maybe they might have been called cow boys because they were boys who worked with cows in some manner or fashion.

[hiddurmitzvah]

In hebrew, as it’s noted in the kabbalist book Zohar, the word for I (אני) and nothing (אין) contains the same letters. The book points out this interesting idea, that only the order (of the letters) makes difference between “me” and “nothingness” – in other words we are all nothing compare with the ein sof, the infinity of G-d. Only our mind, imagination and ego arrange the letters in a different order creating I.

I made this print based around this idea. In case you don't read hebrew, on the left side you read Ani - I, and on the right Ein - Nothing.

You can order this print through Etsy here.

[sashayed]

me, bursting through your bedroom wall in a shower of dust: bUT that hug before they go onstage is what we’ve always wanted from One Direction, and that’s what makes them unsustainable as a phenomenon. What we always wanted from them was what they did not give to us intentionally

you: wh

me, briskly removing my shoes and shaking fragments of rubble out of them: One Direction is perhaps the first band to exist entirely within the Panopticon, from the very beginning, and yet even that was not enough for us. Can you imagine how difficult it would become to hold onto a “self” when what people want most from you are the moments of your life that specifically are NOT FOR THEM? It wasn’t just what they DID, we wanted to know what they FELT, constantly. We demanded to know but we did not want to be TOLD. The knowledge could only be “authentic” if it was not meant for us

you: why are you in my house

me, climbing into your bed and pulling your blankets up to my chin: The endless “documentaries,” the social media – we had an unprecedented, and unprecedentedly intimate, degree of access to these people, and still what we valued most were secrets and accidents. What we wanted was their interiority, and when we could not have that we invented it. Wouldn’t you resent having to constantly be GRATEFUL for that grasping, rapacious love? I would

you: are you crying?

me: We wanted to love them by devouring them, and now we have nothing to eat but our own hearts. can you bring me a hot water bottle

[sashayed]

Liam Payne / Joan Didion / Milan Kundera 

[moviesbabe]

Cher as Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck (1987) dir. Norman Jewison

[mypalval]

Earthship home with cute sunflowers outside.

[sethrogensmohel]

“Where Art Thou / Shiviti Adonai” by Liora Ostroff, 5784/2023

Excerpts of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s 1967 “The Moral Outrage of Vietnam” arranged as a Shiviti amulet.

[takethemonetandletsgogh]

Perfect Days (2023, dir. Wim Wenders)

[vintagehomecollection]

Affectionate 19th-century Austrian porcelain ducks, artless daisies and handpainted 'fish' place mats add character to a table set for dinner in the vividly patterned Dining Room.

Celebrity Homes II, 1981

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girl what's wrong? are you experiencing the sylvia plath fig tree in your head again?

[100493503004422]

[gotochelm]

We seek status because we don’t know our own preferences. When we don’t trust our own definition of what is good, we let other people define it for us.

— Agnes Callard, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, quoted in The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff

[vintagehomecollection]

California Cottages: Interior Design, Architecture & Style, 1996

[robertdeniroinheat-deactivated2]

Ginger do u still have the tiktok of the guy going « you’re crazy » and the sexy one who followed his beloved for blocks into the library goes : « I’m fucking stupid » in the sexiest way possible

Always

[carygrantsbeard]

« YOU NEED SOME MONEY FAW DA BOOK ?? » 😩😩😩😩😩🤤🤤🤤🤤

[theehorsepusssy]

[gotochelm]

[audience member: ‘Live hard, die young!’] "Yeah, it’s a little too late for that, man. I have news for you: sometimes, sometimes it turns out the slogan you didn’t know you were living by was: ‘live hard, live long.’ The slogan begins to stretch: ‘live hard, live long, feel pain, go on, wake up, keep going, keep going, keep going. Grow old, keep going, outlive all friends, last man alive, unending desert, so many stars, limitless, endless stars, throne standing alone in the desert, and yourself…."

-- John Darnielle, at the Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC, 2015-04-07

[escuerzoresucitado]

[divineandmajesticinone]

Mandy Patinkin & Barbra Streisand YENTL (1983) dir. Barbra Streisand