the one the river didn’t keep

sid // gender outlaw // michigan

[speedlimit15]

grocery store mission barely accomplished took massive damage to the hull and all internal systems. shield repair could take days

[witchinghhour-blog]

Love has been so deeply commodified that we can’t understand anymore what it is beyond flat lists of “what we are looking for” on another person–“handsome” “smart” “good sense of humor”

We think, well, we find an object we are looking for, we buy it. We find a person who meets these qualifications, there! We will make them “ours”. The end

Surface qualities have literally nothing to do with deep compatibility, the ability to reconcile difference in communication, in expression, in experience, and ppl are beyond foolish to think love is as easy as buying something

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

The Last Interview and Other Conversations (read or pdf download on scribd)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[theinternetarchive]

'mallow,' engraving, hand colored; french c. after 1772.

[unchildhood]

MARGARET ATWOOD

‘November’, You Are Happy (1974);

original photos and edit

[vampy-campy]

*struggles while writing* i suck and writing is hard

*remembers some ppl use ai* i am a creative force. i am uncorrupted by theft and indolence. i am on a journey to excellence. it is my duty to keep taking joy in creating.

[elegantiaearbiter]

It Will Continue to Grow Except in That Point, by Giuseppe Penone.

[coisasdetere]

 Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan - Steve McCurry

[contemporary-art-blog]

Fabian Knecht, isolation, transforms landscape into a figural great indoors. 

[twinsfawn]

[spider-shoes]

on the inevitable and loving despite, despite // a revisitation of this

various wikipedia pages / carl sagan / why the sun chases the moon / war of the foxes - richard siken / drunk drivers, killer whales - car seat headrest / saturn - sleeping at last / pale blue dot, photo from voyager / lighthousekeeping - jeanette winterson / ann druyan / new york times / neil degrasse tyson / david jones

[utronabalcone]

winston kemp, lightning strike survivor, 2011

"i went outside to save my pumpkins. (i guess it was may 21.) after that, i was going back inside. i just know it struck in our neighbor’s backyard, and it was bright and loud. i didn’t feel anything. i just came back inside like nothing was wrong. umm…my arm was sore. It was probably 4 or 5 in the evening. i didn’t know that it had happened. i don’t know, i wasn’t even sure that it was lightning, but that’s the only thing i figured it was. that’s the only thing i could have come in contact with that would have caused the marks. no, it didn’t hurt when it happened, i didn’t even know it happened. a few hours after it happened it really started to bother me. the next day it was bad. the blisters started forming; they were really big. i walked around the house without a shirt on. i didn’t go to work on monday. i felt sick to my stomach, i’m not sure if that was an after effect of the lightning, tho."

[drowningparty]

Sophocles, Electra (trans. Anne Carson)

[solreefs]

heartbreaking: local thing has to leave the house even though it is so tired and sleepy and full of joint pain

[geryone]

The Cow, Ariana Reines

[weltenwellen]

Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

[bright-eyed]

another random epiphany I had on my drive home from the store was that things that are the most obvious often feel the most profound. I was looking at the sunset through my window. I was like “this is beautiful and it changes all the time so every sunset is a little different and also beautiful.” Which led me to think “if you look at the earth from space, the clouds are never pink or blue or yellow or orange, they are just white and grey all the time. In space perhaps the sunsets are not very different or very beautiful.” Which led me to think “the sunsets are only beautiful because i am so small.” Which led me to think “so many things are only beautiful because i am so small, or if not only then they are at least much more beautiful than they might otherwise be, either because my vantage point of smallness allows me to see details that big things wouldn’t see, like when I see the flash of the sun at sunset with my little eyes on this big planet, or because my briefness finds vastness so incredible cuz it’s so much bigger than me, like when I sit under a very very old and very very tall tree.” And this was all somewhat obvious but it didn’t make the feeling of epiphany go away or diminish at all