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Sachiko Kuru, c. 1980s
i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever
𝔩𝔦𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔪𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰
enemies to lovers but it's me and myself
𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔭𝔬𝔢𝔱
And once again, I find myself crumbling beneath the weight of a silent war, waged not with the world, but with the unruly tides within me. It’s a familiar ache—the kind that doesn’t scream but hums low beneath the ribs, echoing through the hollow corridors of a self I’ve both concealed and abandoned. I descend, not dramatically, but in a slow and intimate spiral into the darkness I’ve so meticulously dressed in light. A darkness I’ve spent years trying to tame, disguise, rename.
And yet, amidst this unraveling, there was love—or something like it. Something soft, unexpected. It crept in through the cracks I swore I’d sealed shut, blooming gently where only survival had grown before. At first, it felt miraculous, like grace whispered into the chaos. A serendipitous pulse in the center of my chest, reminding me of what it means to be held, seen, wanted.
But now, as the days stretch and the rawness of exposure lingers, what once felt like redemption begins to tremble under the weight of my fear. What I mistook for fulfillment now lays bare the trembling truth: that being desired is not the same as being safe. And to be truly loved—unconditionally, vulnerably—is to surrender to uncertainty. And that is something my bones have not yet learned to do without bracing for impact.
maybe i could stop bleeding if you just knew how to love me. maybe i could breathe without choking if you just believed me.
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Maya C. Popa, from “Dear Life”, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder
𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔞 𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔪🪻
truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
— Albert Camus