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mia 🌙  original writing & a collection of inspiration

[allthingseurope]

Zalipie, Poland (by bialobrody)

[rosesofthetwilight]

[paper-fairy]

“A breath of ancient legends gathers about her silk dress as it swings,”

— Alexander Blok, tr. by Jon Stallworthy & Peter France, from “The Stranger,” 

[lilacream]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Be4UijPniD1/

[theburialofstrawberries]

that the people who care about you aren’t, in fact, incrementally & constantly adjusting their opinion of you based on how stupid or cool your last interaction with them was….is something i actively try believing in every single day & when it works it brings my heart great peace

[bluerotundas]

The most convincing lie any of us has ever been told is that there is a truer version of ourselves being held captive or sabotaged by an uncooporative body. That lie has caused so many of us to waste entire lifetimes punishing ourselves for what we are. To me, self love has required that I end the delusion. I am my body, my body is me, nothing more, nothing less. So I begin to love myself, instead of resenting myself. I am exactly as I exist in this moment.

[virgin-martyr]

Emil Cioran, excerpt from Tears and Saints

[paper-fairy]

“A breath of ancient legends gathers about her silk dress as it swings,”

— Alexander Blok, tr. by Jon Stallworthy & Peter France, from “The Stranger,” 

[persephomia]

mutuals, please dm me your instagrams as i’m more active there these days + also posting abt books and poetry i’m reading 💌

i’m @persephomia there too 

[persephomia]

In a way, I was raised by strawberries, fields of them. Not to exclude the maples, hemlocks, white pines, goldenrod, asters, violets, and mosses of upstate New York, but it was the wild strawberries, beneath dewy leaves on an almost-summer morning, who gave me my sense of the world, my place in it.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (via persephomia)

[persephomia]

not to be a killjoy but i Do Not Get what is anti-capitalist abt the current tiktok bimbo trend. i get that ironically playing dumb and mocking stereotypes about women can be funny and also a feminist critque (if done well lol), but the whole “gen-z are reclaiming in bimbo in a anti-capitalist way” is a total joke. 

what on earth is anti-capitalist about makeup and fast fashion (which is what they are usually wearing)? what is anti-capitalist about an aesthetic that is rooted in current trends (as well as pop culture, 2000s fashion and porn)? the people participating in it might genuinely be left wing - i don’t want to undermine their politics - but that doesn’t mean every action you do is anti-capitalist. 

also chances are this trend will go on long enough to be ripped to shreds by discourse too but i find it infuriating that cottagecore - a trend (for all its problems) that was rooted in the aesthetics of thrifting, crafting, growing your own food, etc - was quickly called colonialist but i’m supposed to believe the extremely consumerist bimbo aesthetic is anti-capitalist. ok 

[persephomia]

also to add to this bc i saw a tiktok calling bimbofication camp... i kind of agree when it comes to parodying misogyny (but not capitalism for the above reasons)

but at the same time it’s another trend that subverts the male gaze verbally/emotionally/whatever but not physically. we (i’m guilty of this too) are happy to subvert the male gaze every which way EXCEPT visually 

it’s right men will sexualise everything at the end of the day, and i don’t think anyone’s personal style is to blame for sexualisation. but it’s the thing bimboification and “eyeliner to kill a man” have in common. we still want to be physically attractive 

[persephomia]

not to be a killjoy but i Do Not Get what is anti-capitalist abt the current tiktok bimbo trend. i get that ironically playing dumb and mocking stereotypes about women can be funny and also a feminist critque (if done well lol), but the whole “gen-z are reclaiming in bimbo in a anti-capitalist way” is a total joke. 

what on earth is anti-capitalist about makeup and fast fashion (which is what they are usually wearing)? what is anti-capitalist about an aesthetic that is rooted in current trends (as well as pop culture, 2000s fashion and porn)? the people participating in it might genuinely be left wing - i don’t want to undermine their politics - but that doesn’t mean every action you do is anti-capitalist. 

also chances are this trend will go on long enough to be ripped to shreds by discourse too but i find it infuriating that cottagecore - a trend (for all its problems) that was rooted in the aesthetics of thrifting, crafting, growing your own food, etc - was quickly called colonialist but i’m supposed to believe the extremely consumerist bimbo aesthetic is anti-capitalist. ok 

[malglories]

wish i could go back to eden and give eve a vibrator

[xshayarsha]

some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea

Ocean Vuong, from Night Sky with Exit Wounds; My Father Writes From Prison. (via xshayarsha)

[amourduloup-deactivated20210512]

There remains the infinite solitude of the wolf, invisible and unrecognized except by itself.

Hélène Cixous, ‘Love of the Wolf’ (translated by Keith Cohen)

[mademoisellelapiquante]

Keira Knightley as Hélène Joncour in Silk - 2007

[mondscheinaquarell]

Installation by Vincent Olinet.