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[kristina100000]

she is so cutie vibes. she is so sweetheart vibes

[mysterium-solis]

Silhouette dans un Sous-bois (Silhouette in an Undergrowth) by Henry Rul (1862-1942)

[firstfullmoon]

Martín Espada, “Love is a Luminous Insect at the Window” [ID in alt text]

[godenteredmybody-deactivated202]

[cieloestallorando]

[proboscidea-althaeifolia]

polish government has opened a website for ukrainians seeking safety and trying to cross the ukrainian-polish border:

ua.gov.pl

as of 13:10 polish time, it has been said as many people as possible will be let through the borders. they are also supposed to let through children who do not have passports, as to not divide families.

[surqrised]

“Don’t sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free.”

— Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

[literary-connection]

“Relationships are so much healthier when the goal is to experience life together and not to try to make the person into who you want them to be or to make them do what you want them to do.”

—

[otvaram-ti-dusu-deactivated2022]

This picture from Syria protesting war in Ukraine actually made me tear up.

Abandoned by the world, destroyed and still having enough compassion to think about others.

[bebemoon]

detail of ‘odalisque’ by philippe-jacques van brée .

[blossomfully]

I do think that love is very often about sacrifice. I mean sacrifice as in choosing, as in effort. I mean choosing as in the allocation of time, and energy, and the making of space and the setting aside of prejudices and the keeping of an open mind. I mean leaving the last half-slice of cake in the fridge; working late into Thursday evening to spend Friday evening together; picking them up at the train station even though they’ve long memorised the route to your flat. Even when it is a sacrifice happily made, a choice readily chosen, it is still the giving up of one life in favour of another. And I think it’s important to recognise that. I could be living a different life but I am choosing to live a life with you. It is a sacrifice. The stakes are that high. And I do it anyway. I do it because it’s you. I do it because I love you.

[just-shower-thoughts]

It becomes less and less acceptable to cry in public the older you get, despite the reasons for doing so becoming more and more valid.

[deviika]

Jonathan Safran Foer / John Steinbeck

[nexusdawn]

Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) dir. Alfred Sole

[girlfromenglishclass]

Childhood made everything feel like it lingered. The time it took for hot chocolate to cool down was eternal. Christmas day took weeks. The two-hour drive to my grandparents' house took us to a new world. It's all too fast now.

[tobermoriansass]

“Well, if identity is only a game, if it is only a procedure to have relations, social and sexual-pleasure relationships that create new friendships, it is useful. But if identity becomes the problem of sexual existence, and if people think that they have to ‘uncover’ their ‘own identity,’ and that their own identity has to become the law, the principle, the code of their existence; if the perennial question they ask is ‘Does this thing conform to my identity?’ then, I think, they will turn back to a kind of ethics very close to the old heterosexual virility. If we are asked to relate to the question of identity, it must be an identity to our unique selves. But the relationships we have to have with ourselves are not ones of identity, rather, they must be relationships of differentiation, of creation, of innovation. To be the same is really boring. We must not exclude identity if people find their pleasure through this identity, but we must not think of this identity as an ethical universal rule.”

— Michel Foucault, “Sex, Power, and the Politics of Identity” (1984)

[thoughtkick]

“Just because your past has been damaged doesn’t mean your future has to be worthless.”

— Unknown