planets collide at the smack of your kiss

elizabeth | 25 | she/her

[cinequeer]

Monica Bellucci on the set of Briganti – Amore e libertà (1994)

[simena]

Walter Crane - The Swan Maidens

[aseaofquotes]

Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad 

[english-idylls]

Detail of Ophelia by John William Waterhouse (1894).

[odonianpoet]

[mothermishy]

“The mineral kingdom”, 1968, via press_sf on Instagram.

[aqua-regia009]

Salomé (Detail), 1909 - Paul Antoine De Laboulaye

[pbs-r]

starting to think about happiness as something that could be attained every day instead of something you chase for years and years until the conditions are absolutely perfect

[the-garden-of-delights]

[caringpluto]

i wish to radiate moonlight and heavenly energy at all times

[paper-fairy]

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’”

— Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll  

[soughtstory]

“Do you honestly believe that Persephone was tricked into eating the pomegranate? That Apollo didn’t adore Icarus to the point of sunburn? That there was no Helen before there was a Helen of Troy? You fools - there is always cacophony before the fall.”

— LEGENDS ARE PLAGUED WITH TRUTHS // sophie green

[cottaegecore]

cottage life in the early days of fall

[oopsabird]

the reason you were able to read more and do more activities in a day when you were a kid than you do as an adult isn’t because you got stupider, it’s because as a child you generally had your base needs taken care of and your schedule provided to you, so you didn’t have to use as much of your mental and physical energy on planning, life maintenance (ie food and administrative tasks), and general executive function. of course you could focus on reading a novel in two days, somebody else made your lunches and you never thought about phone bills and you didn’t even have to decide for yourself when to take a bath. c’mon

[biglawbear]

Oh I never realized this

[meikahadden-deactivated20240102]

the lovers & the star

[slfcare]

nobody is irrelevant. nobody is invisible. your neighbors know your name and see you set off to school or work or the backyard everyday, sometimes with a spring in your step and sometimes with hunched over shoulders. there was this one time some stranger pointed you out to their friends and said “that’s the haircut I want” or “I have that shirt, too” or “they go to my school”. someone has admired the way you carry yourself or gave a presentation or even the way you’re so polite when you first meet a person. you’ve made comments or jokes that have stuck in minds of overhearers and eavesdroppers. when old classmates of yours think back to kindergarten or fourth grade or sophomore year they remember you and have an opinion of you. you’ve made recommendations of songs and restaurants and even cookie brands and actually introduced people to their all-time favorites. the cashier at the grocery store knows exactly what laundry detergent your household uses, or even if you don’t do your laundry at all.

you can never be irrelevant. there’s pieces of you everywhere, in a dozen lives, in a hundred dreams, in a million memories. maybe it’s true that you don’t have any friends, and you have a sucky relationship with your family or no family at all and no-one ever checks up on you, and you’re really very lonely, but that doesn’t determine your worth. you do. and so do the billions of small attributions you’ve already made to the world, both long-term and short-term. so thank you.

[dirtshrines]