Happiness Is Not a Goddamn Statitstic

[1five1two]

'Under the Rhubarb leaves'. Tuesday Riddell. 2023.

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by Daniel Neville

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Georgia O'Keeffe poses in front of her piece Abstraction, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

[the-evil-clergyman]

Walpurgisnacht by Heinrich Kley (1923)

[shisasan]

Willem Claesz. Heda 1632, detail

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[theegoist]

Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944) - On the Viewing of Flowers and Trees, Untitled (Vid betraktande av blommor och träd), Watercolor on paper, 18 x 25 cm (1922)

[odyssey420]

[soundcarvings]

Whenever an ugly feeling arises in me, maybe resent, greed, insecurity, etc. I just have to laugh and think to myself, this is what being alive is and I don’t deny my capacity for ugliness, in fact I store my faith in it because that same awareness of my own ugliness is the place I go to when I am aware of my own beauty. I have all the time in the world to sort it out, that’s the thing with self trust. I don’t hide from others and I don’t hide from myself, where there is ugliness I observe it and I don’t turn away.

[soundcarvings]

People who deny their own ugliness, turn away from it, find shame in it and then pretend that they aren’t ashamed are the ones with the deepest capacity for cruelty. Time to see yourself clearly and move forward anyways.

[kuutamosonaatti]

Dante’s Inferno (1967) | dir. Ken Russell

[ruinedchildhood-deactivated3138]

[soracities]

“We’ll dance a little, you and me.” “Do we have time?” ”We have time. Always.”

“Summer school students of Miss Margaret Morris rehearse on the beach, 1934,” ph. Kent Walmert

Gregory Orr, Concerning the Book That is the Body of the Beloved

“Rock ‘n Roll sur les Quais de Paris (Rock ‘n Roll under the quays in Paris - detail),” ca. 1955, ph. Paul Almasy

Jack Gilbert, “Ovid in Tears”

William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale

“Couple at a dance, 1960 (detail)″, ph. Diane Arbus

Albert Camus, Algerian Chronicles

Wendell Berry, “Horses”

Mediterraneo, (dir. Gabriele Salvatores, 1991).

Awa Yoshikono chant, from the Awa Odori dance festival, Japan

[cosmogenous2]

i'm full of love but i also have the hater's curse and once a day i gotta say some bitchy shit or i'll explode

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

it's still crazy to me that the taylor swift private jet pollution thing isn't like, a running joke, she actually produced an unnecessary amount of pollution because of how often she uses private jets. she should've voiced the onceler in the lorax instead of that red haired girl

[skincareroutine]

when life has no meaning n u feel hopeless u must turn to russian literature to tell u to kill yourself

[zegalba]

The Black Mountain | Belfast, Ireland (2014)

[kuchipatch1]

yall have got to be more normal about Southern people and I'm not kidding. enough of the Sweet Home Alabama incest jokes, enough of the idea that all Southerners are bigots and rednecks, and enough of the idea that the South has bad food. shut up about "trailer trash" and our accents and our hobbies!

do yall know how fucking nauseating it is to hear people only bring up my state to make jokes about people in poverty and incestuous relationships? how much shame I feel that I wasn't born up north like the Good Queers and Good Leftists with all the Civilised Folk with actual houses instead of small cramped trailers that have paper thin walls that I know won't protect me in a bad enough storm?

do yall know how frustrating it is to be trans in a place that wants to kill you and whenever you bring it up to people they say "well just move out" instead of sympathizing with you or offering help?

do yall understand how alienating it is to see huge masterposts of queer and mental health resources but none of them are in your state because theyre all up north? and nobody seems to want to fix this glaring issue because "they're all hicks anyways"

Southern people deserve better. we deserve to be taken seriously and given a voice in the queer community and the mental health space and leftist talks in general.