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[moralcomeback]

[olive-pit123]

[sleepingprayer]

[stomachofyourdeadsoulmate]

dm if you’d like one

[lifeinpoetry]

I am hungry for touch & ashamed to be looked at

— Safia Elhillo, from "Summer," Girls That Never Die

[beguines]

Kemi Alabi, "no more white girls, or what i learned from Father", Against Heaven

[gayteensupreme]

Btw if I say things like “by god” or “good lord” in posts please be aware I don’t mean it in a catholic way I mean it in a 1950s scientist reacting in horror after they create an evil creature in the lab set in the distant future year of 2005

[deviika]

Richard Siken

[seethruyou]

[hard2begood1]

dream journal entry redone in ballpoint pen .. been having a lot of hound and wolf dreams that are super powerful but this one was super uncanny. if anybody knows what it might mean, i have some of my own idea but wanna hear more…

[evilhorrible]

[stepping-on-everything]

tissue paper for everything

[angelssingtonightt]

[edithtove]

“Summer with Monika” dir. Ingmar Bergman (1953) screening on a side of a barn in Iowa, USA.

[aletheyass]

On Ugliness, Umberto Eco (click for alt text)

Christ of Pity (detail), Simon Marmion (1480)

Panels Showing the Martyrdom of the Apostles, Stefan Lochner (15th century)

Saint Sebastian, Guido Reni (1625)

Saint Sebastian, José de Ribera (1636)

[metamorphesque]

 — Maggie Nelson, Something Bright, Then Holes

[text ID: I revisited my despair and found myself used to it. No triumph there.]

[julykings]

home, splashed in sun & growing like desert peach