美而不能思議

and my memories—they were like stars

[deathstars]

HELLO ! have you thought about Van Gogh’s First Steps today ?

[deathstars]

Here you go. This world is beautiful. Humans are beautiful. I love you

[soracities]

“It’s summer now, and you’re craving a simpler existence. You want to read. You want to write. You want to meet strangers for dinner, and not refuse another drink at another bar. You want to dance. You want to find yourself in a basement, neck loose, bobbing your head as a group of musicians play, not because they should, but because they must. It’s summer now, and you’re looking forward to worrying less. You’re looking forward to longer nights and shorter days. You’re looking forward to gathering in back gardens and watching meat sputter on an open barbecue. You’re looking forward to laughing so hard your chest hurts and you feel light-headed. You’re looking forward to the safety in pleasure. You’re looking forward to forgetting, albeit briefly, the existential dread which plagues you, which tightens your chest, which pains your left side. You’re looking forward to forgetting that, leaving the house, you might not return intact. You’re looking forward to freedom, even if it is short, even if it might not last. You’re looking forward.”

— Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

[beatricecenci]

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841-1895)

Petite fille à Mesnil

[madphantom]

"I'm just a girl☺️🥰💖💞💅🌺🌷🦄" when you were eight and the teacher said she needed some strong boys to carry something you used to be furious, and when you convinced them to let you help, you carried twice as many chairs as the boys with the righteous anger of a girl who knew she was just as capable as them. Where did that go?

[that-windy-place-tho]

People in the notes

[punkrock-bottom]

I’ve seen you people thirst after men I wouldn’t even feed to my creature

[525897]

Marilyn Monroe at the Plaza Hotel in New York photographed by Eve Arnold, 1956

[faustique]

not photogenic but i probably look sooo good as a distant memory

[stitchblades]

jenny holzer, SURVIVAL (1983-85)

[allsadnshit]

Keeping an alive tumblr in 2026 is proof of one's sincerity and authenticity - a type of person who enjoys posting for the sake of it with absolutely nothing to be gained....just the enjoyment of curation and self expression untainted by opportunity and relevance

[soracities]

Caryl Pagel, from "Young Man Afraid of His Horses"

[Text ID: "What will keep you from telling it to everyone. / What will prevent you from perpetual disclosure: shame or privacy—words or the / sense that once said you cannot snatch the story back."]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[xphaiea]

Peruvian textile fragment

[lifeinpoetry]

Something like a fire is raging // in my heart. I am buoyed that there is beauty / to be found at the center of my suffering.

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from Book Three, Bakandamiya

[achillesinhighheels]

[264571956-deactivated20210621]

on childhood friendship: (1) / (2) / (3, 4) night in the woods (2017) / (5) / (6) / (7)  p.s. i still love you, jenny han

[urgetocreate]

John Michael Carter (American b,1950), Summer Reading, 1986, Oil on linen

[indolentjellyfish]

boba for nembrotha