Per aspera ad astra

“Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.” -The First History Man

[tall]

[loveridden1999]

Octavia Saint Laurent in Paris is Burning (1990)

[sanstoitniloi]

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

[apocryphics]

[important-animal-images]

[moniquill]

'Borrowing the Tiger's Majesty' by Yuzu Kato

[importantcatpics]

@importantcatpics

[escuerzoresucitado]

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Just escaped from Hell thanks to the incredibly convenient road leading directly out! Apparently it was paved with good intentions? Thanks for those, everybody! They worked out great, just like always!

[thwrangis]

has anyone ever actually seen a shareholder or are we just supposed to believe they actually exist

[mollyjames]

I did once when I was working in a coffee shop. He was on a business call loudly talking about some tech speculation. When I asked him how it went a few days later, he panicked and asked how I knew such sensitive information. From this I gather they are of weak constitution, and startle easily

[legallybrunettedotcom]

ever since i learned abt the concept of networking i knew i was going to have to do everything alone and do it the hard way

[roycohn]

2026

[greenbloods]

art moodboard

[americachavez]

apologies to jp brammer’s incredible prose as always but you all know what we’re thinking about with this one

[thatsbelievable]

[shovson]

sports is really like is this 16 year old we abducted from his schooling the next coming of christ

[antspaul]

hanif abdurraqib, there’s always this year: on basketball and ascension

[iphigeniacomplex]

[Transcript:

there is no blueprint for what to make of an entire life when you're a legend by twelve, thirteen years old. When you are good enough at something, anything, that someone might throw some money at you. Might slip a white envelope with some bills into your back pocket during a hug and tell you to get something nice for your moms, put a little food on the table. It is more frightening when everything said about you is true. When you are as good as the streets said you were, or even better. When you are a child but also not a child, also a phenom, also impossible to fathom.

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[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

[admitier]

[ID: A quote by Hanif Abdurraqib. It reads, "All things do not pass. Sometimes, that which does not kill you sits heavy over you until all of the things that did not kill you turn into a single counterforce that might." End ID.]

[brandneweyescd]

they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

[choysum]

Anne Boyer