pic-cells

[animentality]

[wovi]

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sandra cisneros

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[derelicthousefootage]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[oldshrewsburyian]

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

[junglejim4322]

You’re telling me falling in love is real I thought that was just something made up to make music more interesting

[lamusebrune]

I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making you happy.

[3liza]

i think one of the main issues with "dating culture" in total is that the actual percentage of humans who want or need to pair bond or reproduce is a lot lower than we think it is and this creates conflict from dumping an enormous amount of resources into pursuing unsatisfactory goals, having an identity crisis when yet another relationship or partner is boring or disappointing, going through a destructive breakup and resource partition, and then being coerced into starting over from the beginning and just doing this over and over until we die. i don't think relationships and love and romantic attachment are fake I just think a lot of people don't actually need or want them who have been convinced otherwise

[3liza]

I'm not aromantic or asexual, in fact quite the opposite. I'm a full fledged poetry writing romantic and a lot of the most euphoric experiences of my life have been very stereotypical Falling In Love/Being In Love situations. I'm just saying if you really ask someone "do you like this. do you like your girlfriend. do you want to be around her. do you enjoy spending time with people you think you are romantically interested in. do you think about them in a way that makes you feel that way no one has successfully described. or are you just doing these things because you feel somehow that you are obligated or owed 'a girlfriend' (unspecified) like it's a desk lamp or toilet brush" and I think the honest answer is the second thing for a lot more people then is acknowledged

[probuccalfat]

it’s fucking wild because one day you’re like i guess i’m not dying tragically young and you go to the store and you buy dental floss, ingredients for soup, and a bath mat

[probuccalfat]

it’s this sentiment in practice, in day to day.

[anthropoetics]

my god the thing really is to love life even when you have no stomach for it

[eggsdoodz]

a love letter to myself 🩷

[nyasm]

[kosmogrl]

this august do whatever you want and stay up late

[kosmogrl]

and ignore anyone that tells you how you should live your life

[greatestlittlegiant]

always thinking of that “i couldn’t stop wasting time” quote

[greatestlittlegiant]

song of the summer!!

[mylittlefag]

You are DEAD longer than you are ALIVE And you aree WASTING IT by GIVING IN TO FEAR FEAR FEAR IS THE ENEMY

[pmamtraveller]

Itsuko Azuma - The Little Mermaid

[dailyclassicart]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)

[kosmogrl]

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

even now there’s still no word i have for the feeling of reading this. ‘until your face is fogged by distant memory’ and ‘if you marry someone else’ and ‘even as the world goes on its wicked way’ might be my favourite parts. there’s something about the way this letter ended on such a quiet, burningly honest and wanting note, after all those colourful, more abstract and playful comparisons.