Chapter 1

[daisyvx-deactivated20230527]

[abnormall]

i am overwhelmed and i just want everything to stop. just stop. just for a moment so i can think, so i can cry, so i can mourn but its so difficult because life just keeps going and my issues are piling on top of each other and suffocating me and i am so overwhelmed that i cant breathe. i hate this.

[metamorphesque]

— franz kafka, letters to felice‎

[yousaveeveryonebutwhosavesyou]

[muscosus]

the goldfinch, donna tartt // illustration by instachaaz (ig) // selected poems by frank o’hara // the witcher, netfilx // suffocation, crystal castles c. 2010 // the diaries of franz kafka // diary, virginia woolf

[photoprocrastination]

František Drtikol (1883-1961)

Compositions with cut-out figures and leaves. (1928-1935)

Czech photographer

[draculasswife-deactivated202212]

Botanica No.23 by Gail Potocki.

[weltenwellen]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[moon1ike]

mary oliver, upstream

[pigmenting]

“I remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.”

— Louise Glück, from “Unpainted Door” in Poems 1962-2012

[understands]

[dantethundrestone]

you get it...

[suninariesworld]

i wish people still wrote letters

[simena]

ROBERT BRYDALL - The fairy woods (detail)

[thefallenauthor-deactivated2023]

"We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save."

-Erich Fromm; To Have or To Be? 

[soft-raining]

art details // hair

[huariqueje]

The End of a Dream    -    Giuseppe Pennasilico , c.1908

Italian, 1861-1940

Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 145.4 cm