Maid of the Misc

she/her, 30s

[pmamtraveller]

Jie Song

[sygol]

i have a handful of gripes about modern culture, industrial society, and where art and humanity fits into these structures

but i wont tell them to you

instead i want you to imagine a gnarled plum tree

and on this crooked tree, only one single, almost absurdly large plum grows

the plum is a deep indigo hue, its glossy skin carries the light of the sun, in a gentle arcing stroke down its ripe body

this fruit bearing limb bows, straining against the weight, just barely holding the plum from rot

do you want to eat it?

[aestheticvh]

[treasuredplanet]

no bc it's true. there will always be someone who wants you whole.

[lamignonette]

[cogneartive]

when the persona you made eats you; when the performance youve been putting on eats you; when the name they gave you eats you; when the image people made of you eats you; when the role you were assigned eats you; when the you that other people see or even made for you or you made for them takes over the you that you know and eats you alive.

[snototter]

A group of straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) in the Atewa Forest, Ghana

by Roger Wasley

[dk-thrive]

If it is free, I am free.

I am attention.  Where attention is, there am I.  If the attention is weak, I am weak.

If the attention is mechanical, I am mechanical.  If it is free, I am free.

— Michel Conge, Inner Octaves. Translated from French by members of Gurdjieff Foundation Groups in Europe and North America (Dolmen Meadow Editions, 2007)

[throatoftheworld]

Portrait of Princess Francesca Ruspoli by Leonor Fini, 1944

[firstethicalpisces-deactivated2]

girl nothing is ever gonna be all the way together just enjoy the bits and pieces #yourfragments

[vamptits]

she was at the club. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that she was at the club.

[vamptits]

[wiktorjackowski]

river glow IV, 2026, oil on canvas, 80 × 90 cm

[woodsdyke]

im swimming at the lake and accidentally kicked a fish. this has never happened in my many years of swimming. sorry man

[flowerytale]

“The Midnight Sun Ceremony” from Andrea Zanatelli’s embroidery series

[neoyorzapoteca]

“In an interview about Lux, Rosalía cited the Spanish poet and author Alana Portero as one of her inspirations, especially Portero’s encouragement to pray even absent belief as a means of “projecting yourself toward what’s beyond you.” This insight is reminiscent of Leslie Jamison’s memoir The Recovering, in which she describes shrugging off the assumptions of secular humanism to get sober. “I’d come to worship self-awareness,” writes Jamison. “Know thyself, and act accordingly.” But “what if you reversed this? Act, and know thyself differently.””

— Eight Years Of Rituals With Rosalía | Defector

[nobrashfestivity]

Nobuhiko Obayashi, Hausu, 1977

[mutationgirl]

you are just cranky because i took something imperceptible from you and you cannot recall it in its absence but you feel the edges of it anyway