[gums]

i highly recommend for women and girls to be intellectually curious and difficult to shame

[lady-dedlock]

[filmhall]

Rosamund Pike on the set of Pride and Prejudice

[feral-ballad]

Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from Maria Nephele: A Poem in Two Voices; "The Poet's Song"

[misswallflower]

“Visible Light” series by Alexander Harding

[itsdlevy]

“In my opinion, camp is simply a matter of doing things as if you are doing them. Diving into a swimming pool? Throw your arms heavenward and give it the full Esther Williams treatment. When you dive into a pool as if you are diving into a pool, as opposed to executing an earnest quotidian plop, the result is magical—that pool is transformed from a grody Band Aid–strewn chlorine bath into a veritable LAGOON! Smoking a cigarette? Perform the action as if you are a French existentialist.” — Simon Doonan, Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock & Loving Lou Reed

[tierras]

paloma wool

[northwindow]

Olena Kalytiak Davis, from Late Summer Ode

[matchagirl]

clara denison adri cuerdo for numero netherlands december 2022

[beguines]

I have wanted this year to pass and, with it, all its sorrow. But I've started to sense spatial as well as temporal dimensions in the four numbers that are its name, and I'm reluctant now to let it go. A container--in the way it holds things a year might be a container, and this year is the last one that holds alive my grandmother, my friend who died in April and my friend who died in October. When you explain what you've lost to someone, even a person you know well,

you need a new language, and I don't have one. It's like falling in love: you need a new language then, but get by, somehow, because of the way passion compresses every moment into memory (the present both what it is and what it will become).

Aleda Shirley, from "The Best Way Out Is Always Through", Long Distance

[thatsbutterbaby]

Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne - Two “Sardine” cushions with their sofa.  Silver and painted leather, around 1972.

[firstfullmoon]

Adam Zagajewski, “A Flame,” trans. Renata Gorczynski and Clare Cavanaugh

[lelielile]

rip SOPHIE

[girlfictions]

joan didion, “on self-respect”

[theweefreewomen]

image text: It is the phenomenon sometimes called alienation from self. In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the spectre of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that one’s sanity becomes an object of speculation among one’s acquaintances. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectation of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, the singular power power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home. end text.

[20th-century-man]

Winona Ryder

[cheruib]

this December i refuse to be sad this december i will wake up and read this rilke quote every morning because damn he’s right life has not forgotten me it holds me in its hand and will not let me fall

[cheruib]

hey this applies to january too. And every month. we will be alright even if it may not seem like it a lot of the time 🫶

[wellbutrin-princess]

amanda seyfried and a friend

[twofigs]

please please please move your body every day and read every single day. everything we consume is rotting our brains just as it is meant to but i promise these two things make a difference i PROMISE