I AM NO ANGEL

do not be mistaken, loving me will be painful. (but you won't find more faithful)

[tenderlypressed]

[tragiclore]

Arijit Singh & Pritam, Kalank Title Track

[nixscriptum]

[firstfullmoon]

Todd Dillard, “How to Live”

[mournfulroses]

Catherynne M. Valente, from her novel titled "The Melancholy of a Mechagirl," originally published in 2023

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Persistent Rising

Persistent Rising fear and violence move quickly bush fires leaving behind ash moonlight reveals outlines of destroyed life ghostly maps traced on earth leading to what had been in a vista of singe surprising survivors whose green had been ingrained deep enough to escape or perhaps only lucky ones passed over when fire storms raged too quickly to catch hold these randoms have slower pace vegetable intelligence showing earliest shoots a way to suck life from day's resurrection which in itself holds dangers searings and grazings but still precarious life persistent rising

poem "Persistent Rising" by Jo Mariner / photograph and poem by CAConrad

Source: Persistent Rising

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

Eve Ensler, The Apology

Not everyone wants revenge, and you don’t have to either. Choosing freedom means choosing yourself...choosing to step outside of their story, their rules, their shame.

[mournfulroses]

Catherynne M. Valente, from her novel titled "The Melancholy of a Mechagirl," originally published in 2023

[nixscriptum]

[thepeelingrenoir]

[coffee-quotes]

Donna Tartt, "The Secret History"

[poetic-questions]

—Franz Kafka, "The Diaries" (from the travel diaries, 1912)

[originalromanticsir]

When you're committed, the weather doesn't matter. In travel - or love.

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Sandra Cisneros, from My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems of S. C.; “Beatrice,”

[shisasan]

To Vérochka And do you recall the thunderstorms of our childhood? Frightful thunder over the verandah—and at once The most azure aftermath and on everything —diamonds? VN 14—VII—75 Davos

14 July 1975 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

[pigswithwings]

they were right ghost buildings are so so so good to think about

[pigswithwings]

come on. come on. isnt it so beautiful.

top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right

its a shell after molting. a mark stamped on these lifeless things. i really enjoy how you can see the outline of the house it's like when anatomy/biology textbooks cut an organism down the middle to show you just what something's made of. you dont need the full picture but you know theres was a house with people in it. someone lived here. i like that