[academiaa-a]

When Margaret Atwood said, "there is something in your throat that wants to get out and you won't let it." and then Franz Kafka wrote, "And what I really intended to say in the end remains unsaid."

[selfeating]

when sappho wrote: “i want to say something but shame prevents me.”

[redlipstickresurrected]

Mark Laita (American, b. 1960, Detroit, MI, USA, based Los Angeles, CA, USA) - 1: Rowley’s Palm Pit Viper (Bothriechis Rowleyi)  2: Albino Black Pastel Ball Python (Python Regius)  3: Red Spitting Cobra (Naja Pallida)  4: Philippine Pit Viper (Trimeresurus Flavomaculatus)  5: Trimeresurus Venustus aka Beautiful Pit Viper, 2011  6: King Cobra (Ophiophagus Hannah), 2011  7: Blue Malaysian Coral Snake (Calliophis Bivirgatus), 2011  8: Mexican Black King Snake, Photography

[specsthespectraldragon]

Oh, this is the dude who got bitten by a black mamba during a photoshoot and didn’t actually get envenomated because it bit an artery!

[angelnumber27]

portal to a better place II

[gaucheguy]

happy pride month to people who fantasize about having green kitchens

[bapouro]

[gilgai]

Wesley Stacey, The road: Outback to the city 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, 1973-75. Folio 1 from “The Road”, a portfolio of 280 photographs. Type C colour photograph, Fuji Colour machine print. National Gallery of Australia. 

[thunderstruck9]

Francisco Infante-Arana (Russian, b. 1943), Spiral from the series Starry sky reconstruction projects, 1965-67. Gouache and tempera on paper, 50 x 32 cm.

[theillustratedarchives]

Assorted works from Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren.

[weepingwidar]

Amy Casey (American, 1976) - Uncertain Forest (2018)

[ging-gum]

and its just like this every day

[velvetys]

I said something embarrassing they are going to kick me off earth

[anxietyproblem]

[thatadult]

Please don’t answer if you don’t want to, but how did you gain such a strong sense of self? And self confidence in it

Honestly to be 100% honest, my parents love me very much and instilled that in me. I’m 27 and my mom tells me I’m beautiful and smart and great and loved every single day, never gone without it. My dad too*****

I also am great and worth liking. I’m smart, I’m beautiful, athletic and strong, I’m an amazing curator and great at finding amazing people and art. I am an amazing artist with a meaningful vision. I literally have every reason to be confident. I’m very unique and have a unique POV based on my unique and interesting life, etc. I have the interests I have because those are the things I’m interested in and they’re perfect because they’re mine. Think about what’s important to me: Habbo hotel and online chatting, doll making, anime, feminist theory, green consciousness, reproductive justice etc whatever I like. I have a strong sense of self because I find my interests valuable and important because they’re mine. They’re not trivial, they are My World.

And I am rebuilding my confidence currently by reminding myself of that and continuing to pour into myself and build myself up to be even better than I was. I know it sounds weird but I’m confident because I should be, I’m right to be... no one is like me lol no one has ever done what I’ve done... I’m the one. Just like you.

[happyheidi]

[jumex]

All these mental health apps be like 79 dollars for Ur first month to show you a cartoon carrot telling you not to kill yourself and it has like 20k 5 star reviews

[bastionkeeper]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Lean into the funny idiot archetype so that when you’re unexpectedly hypercompetent at something they give you The Look where you can see them reexamine their entire perception of you in confusion, respect and no small amount of fear, and when you keep playing funny idiot they will be forever wary of you. Let them find out, incidentally, that the jester keeps a knife under his hat, and never figure out how to deal with that because they won’t abandon their boxes.

[hexandbalances]

Nelda velvet top and Ziema cotton dress worn by Rama Barry for Voriagh.