[richehs]

main blog (no need to follow), spotify, substack, literal

[steveyockey]

just remembered the best way to tell someone what you’re thinking is to tell them what you’re thinking

[richehs]

fanfiction is such a treasure trove for interesting, very yearn-ful prose like ...

like i literally wrote this in a tsukkikage fic

“There are things in life that have novelty in them worthy of curiosity and pursuit, but when we have familiarity in our hands, we naturally move towards it."

like tbh i don't have a strong evidence to argue that they'd probably say this, but i tend to gravitate to the idea that perhaps some things don't change in a person, but sometimes having lived a life so far kinda changes you in a way. idk just fun to think about. what i like about the way furudate writes the characters is how they don't stagnate in a way—they evolve but still keep traits of themselves even until they reach adulthood. man i love haikyuu

[nemfrog]

Les ancêtres de Maigriou. Scrawny's ancestors. Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. 1884.

Gallica

[aransmind]

emo megumi

[frongledotpng]

9/6/26

[velartis]

“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

[richehs]

“Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire. Real life is filled with twists and turns, changes, recurrences. Before you even know it, you’ve become a deluded romantic who denies the consequences of time or destroys the very thing that they love. It’s funny how the only time I’m not hypersensitive is when I’m breaking up with someone. Then again, we brought out the ugliness in each other, as if hatred was the seed of our love.”

- Notes of a Crocodile, Qiu Miaojin

[richehs]

view from my university / the flowers on the table at a cafeteria / the living room wall featuring two of my exhibited works / my marshall headphones

[dailyclassicart]

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - "Love's jewelled fetter, the betrothal ring" (1894)

[richehs]

i haven't been on this app for a while so coming back to so many ads is like returning back to your hometown only to find out ur local store is replaced by a fast food chain

[bk]

[discourseoflove]

“The role of the artist is exactly the same role, I think, as the role of the lover. If you love somebody, you honor at least two necessities at once. One of them is to recognize something very dangerous, or very difficult. Many people cannot recognize it at all, that you may also be loved; love is like a mirror. In any case, if you do love somebody, you honor the necessity endlessly, and being at the mercy of that love, you try to correct the person whom you love. Now, that’s a two-way street. You’ve also got to be corrected. As I said, the people produce the artist, and it’s true. The artist also produces the people. And that’s a very violent and terrifying act of love. The role of the artist and the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see. Insofar as that is true, in that effort, I become conscious of the things that I don’t see. And I will not see without you, and vice versa, you will not see without me. No one wants to see more than he sees. You have to be driven to see what you see. The only way you can get through it is to accept that two-way street which I call love. You can call it a poem, you can call it whatever you like. That’s how people grow up. An artist is here not to give you answers but to ask you questions.”

— James Baldwin, “The Black Scholar Interviews James Baldwin,” Conversations with James Baldwin (edited by Fred L. Standley and Louis H. Pratt)

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Time passing isn’t an apology. (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a poem titled "Loving The Killer," featured in The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton

[weltenwellen]

Taking Care  Callista Buchen

[makingimages]