long live edna

[oozins]

[kitchen-light]

“There’s a legend about a Chinese painter who was asked by the emperor to paint a landscape so pristine that the emperor can enter it. He didn’t do a good job, so the emperor was preparing to assassinate him. But because it was his painting, legend goes, he stepped inside and vanished, saving himself. I always loved that little allegory as an artist. Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it.”

— Ocean Vuong, from an interview with Zoë Hitzig in Prac Crit

[frogbestfriend]

one of the biggest problems of society nowadays is that i am so so sleepy 

[theotreptos]

Simone Weil, “The Love of God and Affliction,” Waiting for God

[zandraart]

cathedral beneath the docks

[bhenchod-deactivated20220212]

nobody look at me I'm an idiot

[bhenchod-deactivated20220212]

I am the smartest person alive

[bhenchod-deactivated20220212]

nope, I’m dumb as fuck

[bhenchod-deactivated20220212]

I’m a beacon of knowledge

[rotgospels]

Mary Karr, “VI. Wisdom: The Voice of God” 

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910

[honeylover]

Micah Nemerever, "These Violent Delights"

[ffondazione]

“Who’s the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who’s horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?”

— Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger (via wordsnquotes)

[ardellian]

As a fiction writer, I don’t speak message. I speak story. Sure, my story means something, but if you want to know what it means, you have to ask the question in terms appropriate to storytelling. Terms such as message are appropriate to expository writing, didactic writing, and sermons — different languages from fiction.

[...]

I’m not saying fiction is meaningless or useless. Far from it. I believe storytelling is one of the most useful tools we have for achieving meaning: it serves to keep our communities together by asking and saying who we are, and it’s one of the best tools an individual has to find out who I am, what life may ask of me and how I can respond.

But that’s not the same as having a message. The complex meanings of a serious story or novel can be understood only by participation in the language of the story itself. To translate them into a message or reduce them to a sermon distorts, betrays, and destroys them.

— Ursula Le Guin, A Message About Messages

[destroysoil]

two egyptian fruit bats enjoying a yellow bell pepper

[poeticanatomy]

my favorite passage from Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

[sadsike]

[litaratura]

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[sesiondemadrugada]

Miles Cleveland Goodwin.

[requiem-on-water]

“Black Shuck, a ghostly black dog often seen as an omen of death or bringer of bad luck.”

Omens by Dillon Samuelson