to indeed be a god

Lydia / 24 / books and aesthetics “they taste good to her”

[sweatermuppet]

3 parts from 3 notes app entries

[b5ksrockhaus]

David Berman.

[hhawkeye]

currently thinking about: this photo of richard sandells kissing the eros statue in piccadilly circus as part of an outrage kiss-in protest against the prosecution of gay people showing affection in public.

[godsopenwound]

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "Baked Goods" from Lucky Fish

[mashamorevna]

“I want the person I love to love me. If he is, however, totally devoted to me he does not exist any longer and I cease to love him. And as long as he is not totally devoted to me he does not love me enough. Hunger and repletion.”

— Simone Weil, The Simone Weil Reader, trans. by Arthur Wills and as quoted in Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet (via antigonick)

[florealegiardini]

Hollyhocks (detail), Julia McEntee Dillon (American, 1834-1918)

[firstfullmoon]

Sumita Chakraborty, from “Night Questions”

[text ID: When does the moon turn full?

When I tell it stories of love.]

[i2ish1]

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Pastoral: To Die In the Country (Shuji Terayama, 1974)

[kicker-of-elves]

cafe in Cartagena, Colombia

National Geographic April 1989       O. Louis Mazzatenta.

[heartwornhighways]

Reimagined covers for Classic Horror Stories.

[drowsydrunk]

“i am beginning to think that the reason i “give so much” is that i am so poor in spirit, hoping through leaning on every little gesture, thought, word, and mood of other to get my empty spaces filled. so my giving is really demanding.”

— John Cage, in a Letter to Merce Cunningham [undated, 1944], in John Cage’s Selected Letters (via antigonick)

[detailedart]

[shisasan]

Hermann Hesse, Demian, (1919)

[mielmelon]

lemon or limes? book of short stories or book of poetry? cappuccinos or lattes? baguettes or croissants? apple orchards in the fall or lavender fields in the summer? rainy nights or sunny days? suede or velvet?

[jesperr-fahey]

books read in 2020 ~ this is how you lose the time war, by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down. you gave me so much- a history, a future, a calm that lets me write these words even though i’m breaking. i hope i’ve given you something in return.

[alinastarkovz]

pride month meme: [2/5] lgbtq+ male characters → Alex Claremont-Diaz

Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.