avela lindiwe

i write what i like

[nemfrog]

Attraction and Repulsion. Modern views of electricity. 1892.

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[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[m3zzaluna]

power lines are crushed with the weight of four days of accumulated freezing rain in boucherville near montreal, canada, january 9, 1998

photo by robert laberge, via bbc archives

[nemfrog]

The serpent consuming its tail, crowned with flame. Frontispiece by Melchior Lechter for Stefan George's, Der siebente Ring. The Seventh Ring. Berlin, 1907.

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[ignsart]

[trailofleaves]

"Do not fall victim to excessive idealism and believe that telling the truth will bring you closer to people. People love and reward those who can soothe them with illusions. Since ancient times, humanity has only punished those who speak the truth. If you want to stay among people, share their illusions. The truth is spoken only by those who are ready to depart." — Friedrich Nietzsche

[auxcayes]

Haiti 1970’s

[thehopefulquotes]

“I’ve found that growing up means being honest. About what I want. What I need. What I feel. Who I am.”

— Epiphany

[scorpionlafemme]

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[weltenwellen]

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, from "I Went Out to Hear"

[weltenwellen]

Julia Liu, from "Exit Wound"

[andantegrazioso-deactivated2018]

[bongjoonhoe]

Yi Yi (2000) dir. Edward Yang

[madvillaineee]

[allsadnshit]

I used to feel really humiliated by being the only one still caught up emotionally in something when I realize the other parties have moved on or even just decided not to think about it since moving on can be so challenging and takes so much self reflection most of the time

But the older I get the more I'm like well yeah I give a fuck

I don't numb myself, I do self work diligently not for others but because I want to feel a truly peaceful soul, I confront my feelings so they don't get stuck in my body and make me sick, and I don't consider my emotions something I can put in the back burner to deal with at my leisure cause I already learned the hard way it doesn't work like that or at least not forever

So if I am the last one still lingering it might not be because I am the one who can't get their shit together - as someone who USED to be the first one out I think I've just become someone who takes their time and allows necessary discomfort instead of avoiding hard things

[cocainejuul]

[oneinchbarrier]

[v4mpgrrl]

ID: screencaps of James Baldwin saying, 'What's gonna happen, sooner or later, all the wretched of the earth… in one way or another… next Tuesday or next Wednesday… will destroy the cobblestones on which London and Rome and Paris are built. The world will change because it has to change. The party is over.'

/end ID