the house that jack built

ramblings and smatterings of interests from a confused genderqueer dude trying to get a handle on himself. all personal blog posts tagged "jack" or found through the "in jack's words" link. they/them/he/him - queer - jewish - white - liberal - social worker - reader - introvert - writer - feminist - nerd - advocate

[imkeepinit]

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

[redlipstickresurrected]

Hosio Hirotta aka ニコ (Nico) aka Hirotta Hosio (Japanese, based Tama, Tokyo, Japan) - 知りたいんだ。 (I want to know), 2025, Drawings: Pen + Ink

[lonequixote]

And when the fog’s over and the stars and the moon come out at night it’ll be a beautiful sight.

— Jack Kerouac

[mournfulroses]

Sara Torres, from her novel titled "X Is Where I Am," orginally published in March 2026

[thoughtkick]

“I need a life that isn’t just about needing to escape my life.”

— Robert Polito

[shisasan]

March 16, 1927 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[casenumber825]

Just a gifset of an adorable drunk angel

*BONUS*

He’s an adorable sober angel as well!

[crowleysducks]

If you couldn’t tell already, I adore him, your honour 🥺

[carpethedamndiem]

[shisasan]

From March 12 to 13, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[dalliancekay]

[perfectfeelings]

“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”

— Virginia Woolf

[love-is-thelaw]

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. I: 1940-1956

[fictionalism]

“My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.”

— Gustave Flaubert, from a letter to Louise Colet (via violentwavesofemotion)

[apoemaday]

"I am afraid to own a Body --"

by Emily Dickinson

I am afraid to own a Body — I am afraid to own a Soul — Profound — precarious Property — Possession, not optional —

Double Estate — entailed at pleasure Upon an unsuspecting Heir — Duke in a moment of Deathlessness And God, for a Frontier.

[titsay]

[pomeriggiolove]