ascending

kedi | xxxv/eternal | all/none | sapphic | demi-aro/ace

[existential-celestial]

“Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch’d from,”

— Walt Whitman (b. 31 May 1819), “Song of Myself,” in WHITMAN (The Laurel Poetry Series).

[achillesinhighheels]

[giveherswords]

Jenny Holzer, Black Book Posters, 1979

[3y3]

Tight Mask (Man with a Mask), Peter Ondreička

[majestativa]

Alchemy involves a sublimatio, a making subtle, effected by the dark transformative processes of mortification & putrefaction. That is to say, soul-making cannot take place without decay and a painful dying to life

THOMAS MOORE — Dark Eros: The Imagination of Sadism, (1990)

[kuchipachi]

white flag by lucia gallipoli

[themakeupbrush]

Robert Wun Couture 2025

[achillesinhighheels]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1912, featured in Letters To Felice

[badgyalb-deactivated20251026]

#Selfcare

[philosophybits]

“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”

— Albert Camus, A Happy Death

[mournfulroses]

Ya Xian, from a poem titled "Andante Cantabile," featured in A century of modern Chinese poetry : an anthology

[melisica]

(Albino deer, by CCCPxokkeu)

[toyastales]

René Lalique Serpent Pectoral Pendant designed around 1899.

[srlgemstone]

Fascinating!

[tinyuglyworld]

Palestinians burning an Israeli flag in the Balata refugee camp, near Nablus. Photographed by Mohammed Ballas, 2000

[mournfulroses]

Neha Malhokra, from a poem titled "Menaka," featured in Not a muse : the inner lives of women : a world poetry anthology