a c h e

my heart yearns towards you.

[lucidloving]

THE QUESTION:

THE ANSWER:

Traci Brimhall, "Vive, Vive" // Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

[terrorignitis]

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

"Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world."

Ursula K Le Guin at it again, being right as always

[thekashishverse]

I know it is a privilege to feel things deeply, but what the fuck.

[xoxo-ben-xoxo]

enough mpreg. give him mpostpartum depression

[terpsikeraunos]

frankenstein (1818)

[sacred-portal]

[metamorphesque]

Death of Paolo and Francesca, Gaetano Previati

[lunamonchtuna]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky (via lunamonchtuna)

[nixscriptum]

[mournfulroses]

Paul Valéry, from a poem featured in The Idea of Perfection; The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry

[megairea]

Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman, 1951

[microkorgmartyr]

fun fact: these lines and the title of the book are taken from an old folk song. here's my favourite version by Odetta <3

[detournementsmineurs]

Porcelain art by Nguyễn Duy Mạnh, 2021-22.

[metamorphesque]

[antigonick]

Apollo, the god of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number—Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don't look straight at the sun.

—Ursula K. Leguin, in her Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness

[eirene]

Miss Auras. The Red Book, c. 1900

John Lavery

[coitus-n-carnage2]

[dailyclassicart]

Albert Bierstadt - "Sunlight and Shadow" (1862)