Please Keep Me in Dreams

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river...

[nostalgicine]

Coles Phillips

[kosmogrl]

[artshers-deactivated20160224]

[gentlethrills]

Consuelo Kanaga - Young Girl in Profile, 1948

[yvain]

Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[vaninnavaninni]

[sentientsky]

on haunted houses and ghosts that still breathe

Christina Marie Brown - Ghost I // Jacqui Germain - Bipolar is Bored and Renames Itself // tumblr user @/latibule-e // Natalie Wee - WEI YING TELLS ME ABOUT RESURRECTION

[dionysian-mystery]

Avery Williams, tails between clenched teeth (in le petit 3, january 2025) via @feytouched | Quote by briscoepark on Instagram | Song of the Open by Walt Whitman | You're on Your Own, Kid by Taylor Swift | Pencil drawing by Anthony Cudahy | Mamma Told Me by Mother Mother | Mother by Maia Baia | From the poem Salt by Trista Mateer (book: The Dogs I Have Kissed) | Unknown | Nevermind by Michael Howard | Muslim Girlhood by Leila Chatti | Quote source | Poetry by @ojibwa | Antigone by Sophocles | Art by @nevahosking | Sylvia Plath | Poetry by @traumatizeddfox | Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Art by Tim Dayhuff | Quote by Helaena Moon @hapless-hollow | Quote by Sainteda on Wattpad (?) | Spear by Elizabeth Acevedo | White Oleander by Janet Fitch | Illustration by Carlos Alonso from Under Someone Else's Rain by Juan Gelman | Quote by S.P. | Mya G. Wolf

[starsendlessly]

on being god’s favorite sacrificial lamb

Sources + inspo

@/pwiscila on twitter / x / x / x / x / A Temple of the Holy Ghost, Flannery O’Connor / Love of the Wolf (translated by Keith Cohen); Stigmata: Escaping Texts, Hélène Cixous / De Profundis, Oscar Wilde / unknown / Ophelia, Act IV, Scene V

[diehellasrache]

I think I'm going to remember this phrase every time I cook for the next five years

[marypickfords]

A Dream Longer Than the Night (Niki de Saint Phalle, 1976)

[villanevedenier]

Donna Tartt for the NYT, 1995, photo by Stephan Haskell

[fireandashes]

hey so was anybody gonna tell me that the raven boys is one of the best contemporary fantasy novels of the twenty-first century and an insane study on the cycles of abuse and the mindset of rich teenage boys and class divides or was i just gonna have to figure this out on my own

[nathanielthecurious]

i love this description. the ability to bring down the moon is literally so basic to thessalian womanhood that even girls can do it

[the-library-and-step-on-it]

“I know that if women wish to escape the stigma of husband-seeking, they must act and look like marble or clay - cold, expressionless, bloodless; for every appearance of feeling, of joy, sorrow, friendliness, antipathy, admiration, disgust, are alike construed by the world into the attempt to hook a husband. Never mind! well-meaning women have their own consciences to comfort them after all. Do not, therefore, be too much afraid of showing yourself as you are, affectionate and good-heartened; do not too harshly repress sentiments and feelings excellent in themselves, because you fear that some puppy may fancy that you are letting them come out to fascinate him; do not condemn yourself to live only by halves, because if you showed too much animation some pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into his pate to imagine that you designed to dedicate your life to his inanity.”

— Charlotte Brontë writing to a friend who had been kind to a man she thought was married, only to have him fall in love with her because he thought she was flirting (letter dated April 2, 1845).

[rosieandthemoon]

by René Margritte (1953)

[nemfrog]

The sun, the moon and the stars. Out-of-doors. v. 2. 1932.