as i am

as i always will be

[dailyclassicart]

Mikhail Gorstkin Vygotsky - "Winter Forest" (c.1900)

[paper-wounds]

[vexheart]

This

[literaryvein]

L. V., writing on the sky

[petaltexturedskies]

Patrizia Cavalli, Wonderful Life

[inkskinned]

oh, no, i have no concept of the size of a whale or of the galaxy. i am cosmically insignificant, which is fine. the other day i accidentally spilled a few grains of sugar on the counter. i watched a single ant heft it over his head and run with it - run! - like he was carrying a crown.

sometimes when i am watching the rain i think about how each particular drop is new and only exists for right-now and yet it is the same water as it has been for millennia. the atoms i am are only meeting in this form for this one life. later maybe they will be a mushroom. maybe in the infinite expanse of time, two of my molecules will meet each other again and they'll say i remember existing with you. which is maybe how a star feels, watching humans dance and laugh and sing in the bodies we are borrowing.

what am i in the cosmic sense? what of the stupid human exploits of my tiny human life?

the other day i found a wilting bumblebee and fed it a little water. after an hour, he made a lazy loop of flight. up and towards the stars.

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Joseph Selleny (Austrian, 1824–1875), "The Island of St. Paul in the Indian Ocean", 1868

[artndetails]

moving far away to a sunny place.

[lucidloving]

Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"

[diioonysus]

objects in art: swords/daggers

[stuckinapril]

are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

[stuckinapril]

this is not just "look out the window and sigh" longing. i'm talking you're at the grocery store and you're suddenly hit w a wave of grief bc you don't have it. you don't have whatever it is you ache so badly to have. you go about your everyday life and yet it throbs under your skin moment by moment, almost as though it has a life of its own. that's the kind of longing i mean.

[guts-4k]

Artist: Angelina Zhogina

[flowerytale]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre

[quotefeeling]

“I’m homesick all the time … I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon. Just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

[rinnystee]

hi i brought some memes based on fourth wing

and i also created a playlist:

upd: i don't know what the problem is with the playlist showing, i'll try to fix it

[queueueue]

why do you have short nails?

homo reasons

just like them short

male raised to believe nails must be short

neurodivergent reasons

digital artist reasons

mixture of reasons (explain in tags?)

other reason (explain in tags bc i am picking my brain thinking of reason lmao)

they're not short

Voting ended onJul 11, 2023

[geryone]

Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing, Charif Shanahan