A Different Breed

Jennifer | U of Tears | trying to maintain homeostasis

[tastefullyoffensive]

[hypostomus]

[hypostomus]

Vertical highlights!! Assorted

[hypostomus]

2021 highlights - horizontal lmao

[hypostomus]

All I want is the right to exist.

I exist out of obligation. My time is not my own. Every decision I make is to please someone else.

I want to exist of my own virtue, not bound to or measured by my affiliations.

Leave me alone!!!

[hypostomus]

Why am I so bad at building walls?

I can't keep anyone out

Screaming,

"I can't bear to still be alone"

[byersbvckley]

you cannot do this on your own. and neither can i. / shadow and bone (2021-)

[hypostomus]

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/whcr-cr/whooping-cranes

[hypostomus]

The only things I have capacity for today are eating Swiss chalet and crying

There is no Swiss chalet

[hypostomus]

I am not a trash bin for all the food you made and don't want to eat

[tworobocops]

there is no old self to get back to there’s a new u to create n nurture

[studiominimalista]

“Duo”

[ostdrossel]

MoDo, subtly flirting with the camera.

[mae-martin]

[softwhorecore-deactivated201812]

THIS IS ACTUALLY FACTUAL AND NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED MORE

[opaliris]

http://www.usms.org/articles/articledisplay.php?aid=294

[soulfulmags]

“Knowing that they were losing “valuable product” due to their slaves’ propensity to swim, slave owners began taking drastic steps to protect their property. One of these steps was to instill a fear of the water by dunking disobedient slaves in water until they nearly drowned and by creating fear through stories of creatures living in the water. Thus it didn’t take long to excise or destroy the West African swimming tradition from African- American culture. The Jim Crow laws that were enacted after The Civil War prohibited blacks from the popular seaside resorts in places like Atlantic City, N.J. and Revere Beach, Mass. And by the 20th Century, as the swimming pool began to gain in popularity in the United States, the color line prohibited blacks from enjoying this pleasant recreational skill.

In addition, self-segregation also played a role in limiting those of African ancestry from getting in the water. I remember my Aunt saying to stay away from the pool because, “black folk don’t swim.””

[soporis]

“I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.”

— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters

[kxowledge]

“I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I shouldn’t, and this made me even sadder and more tired.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[dennybitte]

almost gone

by Denny Bitte