[xshayarsha]

From the 1891 edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[soracities]

"Beauty is often spoke of as though it only stirs lust and admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story. Desire for them is in part a desire for a noble destiny, and beauty can seem like a door to meaning as well as to pleasure. And yet such people are often nothing extraordinary except in their effect on others. Exceptional beauty and charm are among those gifts given by the sinister fairy at the christening. They give the bearer considerable sway over others, which can keep them so busy being a sort of siren on the rocks where others shipwreck that they forget that they themselves need to figure out where they are going."

Rebecca Solnit, from "Abandon", A Field Guide to 'Getting Lost

[notahorseindisguise]

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

[mysticorset]

Peer reviewed tags from @somanyofthekids

[notahorseindisguise]

NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP

[hiveswap]

While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive

[midnight-revolucion]

alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife

[notahorseindisguise]

im going INSANE thats MY POST.

[marlinspirkhall]

It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.

[takecouragelover]

Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

[houseofthelabyrinth]

obsessed with this quote by Norma Larson in Family Ties: Essays on the Mafia in Film, 1993

[mindofdisquiet]

Im getting Goncharov tattooed...

[intactics-deactivated20211231]

[mindofdisquiet]

451 Fahrenheit_Ray bradbury

[mindofdisquiet]

Some YouTube video credit to owner

[mindofdisquiet]

The dragons of Eden_ carl sagan

[mindofdisquiet]

Nausea _ jean Paul sartre

[mindofdisquiet]

On the hights of dispair_ emil cioran

[mindofdisquiet]

Nausea _jean Paul sartre

[cozybug-deactivated20231208]

be poetic. if you find the way the light falls through your window and onto your bedroom wall pretty, write about it. call it soft and golden as sunlit honey. if it makes you glad to be alive then it’s not silly. you look for the beauty of things, be proud of that. say the heavy rain is kissing you. write about the glow of the moon, the dancing of flowers. make your world magical. collect your metaphors and treasure them.

[mindofdisquiet]

The way you choose to see your world can save your life

[paper-fairy]

“(…) dreams of flying and forgetting and dreams of belonging but departing”

— W.S. Merwin, from Still Water in “Garden Time"  

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

La sindrome di Stendhal (Dario Argento, 1996)  

[tinagrey]

Botticelli’s Venus as part of a slide show on buildings during the Festival of Lights in Lyon, France.

[mindofdisquiet]

He’d always been the sensitive kind and it turned out that everyone’s sadness was always his own. It didn’t matter if it concerned him or not, he would partake in it, unwillingly.

[mindofdisquiet]

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