All is flux; nothing abides.

Tori. San Jose, Calif. Twentysomething. The musings of an effusive existential sad girl.

[metaphorformetaphor]

Therefore they would often sit together, talking desultorily. What was really between them they could not utter. Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence. —D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow. Wordsworth Editions,1995

[heteroglossia]

Stop turning celebrities into feminist icons and start turning feminist icons into celebrities.

[rienfleche]

I find it frustrating when people imply that there is no way to analyze power because it’s ubiquitous, fluid, and purely relational. The idea that power is impossible to possess, anchor, and pinpoint can suggest that power relations are completely socially unintelligible and impossible to examine. However, even though there is no external view of a fixed locus of power, there is still the possibility of illuminating alignments of power through an examination of webs of power relations and patterns of effects. That how we might arrive at an analysis of, say, patriarchy, which isn’t reducible to the concentration of power into the hands of men, but rather is maintained though “mobile, polymorphous, and contingent techniques of power” that include multiple strategies, whether it’s the naturalization of women’s inferiority in scientific discourses or the day-to-day performance of gender in order to be perceived as an intelligible human subject. Even Foucault was very aware that something like “constellations” of power or “alliances” exist even in the absence of absolutist and fixed configurations of power. Confluences and bundles of relations of power are produced within disciplinary configurations of power. These constellations can accrue power and resemble classical “oppression,” as links, alliances, and alignments of power coalesce.

[Jackie Wang] (via rienfleche)

[ckck]

Mano del Desierto (Hand of the Desert), Chile by Mario Irarrázabal, 1992.

Photograph by Y ron.

[wordsnquotes]

So I stopped talking about it. There’s no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

Stephen Fry (via wordsnquotes)

[eyesleepers]

[theohpioneer-deactivated2018040]

and at once i knew i was not magnificent.

[misswallflower]

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Madeleine L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Light (via misswallflower)

[fuckyeahexistentialism]

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

—Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

[wordsnquotes]

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via wordsnquotes)

[mindlikefire]

[fuckyeahexistentialism]

"Death created time to grow the things that it would kill."

True Detective

[nothing-abides]

HA. Hahahaha. 

"Is this some sort of cyber police thing that my IP was accedently (sic) allowed to access so I could help stop child abuse on the net or am I going crazy????"

H/T to tech Twitter. [Source]

[nothing-abides]

I'm looking forward to working through this super limited collaboration series. I've neglected my Untappd, but you can find me there as "tttori." (I've got a soft spot for Sierra; my alma mater is Chico State. Tour the brewery. It's breathtaking and fucking majestic.)

[zenaddict-blog]

[nothing-abides]

My view is just awful

[nothing-abides]

Music & scene pairings.