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[thouartadeadthing]

[zeravmeta]

ancient sumerian little girl kicking her legs up in her bedroom imprinting images of gilgamesh and enkidu kissing on her cuneiform clay tablet and then taking it to her mom to bake and preserve it

[weepingwidar]

Louis Fratino (American, 1993) - May (2020)

[kafk-a]

Jane Hirshfield

[kafk-a]

Alice Notley, "The Poetry of Everyday Life" (1988)

[kvothes]

marie howe, in an interview with krista tippett of on being

[kafk-a]

[zegalba]

Sony PlayStation 2 Controversial Lara Croft Advertisement (2000)

[davidhudson]

Hannah Höch (November 1, 1889 – May 31, 1978), Album (Scrapbook), 1933.

[feignedremote]

It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as I say, unspeakable... It is unholy because it is heretic. It is foul. It is abominable to need something so badly that you cannot picture living without it. It is a contradiction to the condition of mankind.

Shirley Jackson, The Sundial

[hangsawoman]

we must discuss the constant deep yearning in shirley’s work, here is hangsaman

[ID: "All I need," said Tony, "is a desire so strong that the world, all of the world, has got to bend itself and forget itself and break out of its circles and rock itself crazy, all to do what I want, and there's got to be a great crash when the ground under me crashes itself wide open and the fire inside is forced to crawl away from my feet and the sky too turns back so that there is nothing above me and nothing below me and nothing in all time except me and what I want. / End ID]

[andromerot]

[ID: “I think we are only afraid of ourselves,” the doctor said slowly. “No,” Luke said. “Of seeing ourselves clearly and without disguise.” “Of knowing what we really want,” Theodora said. She pressed her cheek against Eleanor’s hand and Eleanor, hating the touch of her, took her hand away quickly. End ID]

[girldickdotcom]

from shirley jackson: a rather haunted life by ruth franklin

[ID: a black background with white text that reads "own terms. Constance and Merricat are indeed 'two halves of the same person,' together forming one identity, just as man and woman are traditionally supposed to in marriage. Not finding that wholeness in marriage, Jackson sought it elsewhere; first with Jeanette Beatty, later with her friend Barbara Karmiller, also younger, who came back into her life shortly after she finished Castle." End ID]

something about the way shirley writes this deep yearning and these deeply charged female friendships filled with jealously, fighting, and unspoken feelings is very deeply lesbian to me. that's really why she yearned like that

[nobrashfestivity]

Joe Brainard, Pansies, 1968. 

Watercolor and collage on paper, 28 x 22 inches.

[gentilfarfalletta]

Kristen Morgin, (Butterfly), 2014, unfired clay, paint, roofing tacks, ink, graphite, crayon, wire, marker, 5 x 11.5 x 1 in

[ehbahpu]

Anna Oppermann

[ourstrangeduet]

“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a stunted, vicarious existence. You've silenced your passions. The volume, height, depth, lushness, and excess of operatic utterance reveal, by contrast, how small your gestures have been until now, how impoverished your physicality; you have only used a fraction of your bodily endowment, and your throat is closed.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire.

[pinkstarlightcomputer]

Gilbert Williams The great jewel

[bigspoopygurl]

M. C. Escher - Three Worlds (1955)

[plumslices]

Shinji Nakaba’s Rose Branch, selected as a finalist for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2023.

Pearl, aluminum, stainless steel