keep busy with survival

twenty six. writing to feel sane.

[louisegluck]

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.” [ID in alt text]

[portalibis]

Hilma af Klint, Group VI, Evolution, No. 14, 1908

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[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, “The Kingfisher.” Owls and Other Fantasies

[symptomofloves]

home in cardigan, uk

[weltenwellen]

Warsan Shire, from “Backwards”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

[podencos]

Every midnight I decide to change my entire life

[theinternetarchive]

a few more great films that are free on the internet archive

in decent quality too!

first list, second list

aggregate letterboxd list, archive list of all the films

perfect blue (1997) dir. satoshi kon

carol (2015) dir. todd haynes

the elephant man (1980) dir. david lynch

a girl walks home alone at night (2014) dir. ana lily amirpour

d.e.b.s. (2004) dir. angela robinson

nausicaa of the valley of the wind (1984) dir. hayao miyazaki

killer klowns from outer space (1988) dir. stephen chiodo

mommy (2014) dir. xavier dolan

jennifer's body (2009) dir. karyn kusama

suspiria (1977) dir. dario argento

battleship potemkin (1925) dir. sergei eisenstein

his girl friday (1940) dir. howard hawks

cube (1997) dir. vincenzo natali

nightcrawler (2014) dir. dan gilroy

black orpheus (1959) dir. marcel camus

chunking express (1994) dir. wong kar wai

meeting people is easy: a film about radiohead (2001) dir. grant gee

the grapes of wrath (1940) dir. john ford

the black cat (1941) dir. albert s rogell

the tin star (1957) dir. anthony mann

[pnglove]

wax seal stamp pngs ♡

[edwordsmyth]

Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin

[soracities]

“Yesterday I lost a country. I was in a hurry, and didn’t notice when it fell from me like a broken branch from a forgetful tree.”

— Dunya Mikhail, from ‘I Was In A Hurry’, The War Works Hard (trans. Elizabeth Winslow)

[cloudswamp]

witchgrass, louise glück

[aclockworkorange]

Larry Sultan, Los Angeles, Early Evening, 1986

[killyridols]

candlelight by anna ruth, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 × 4 centimeters

[puntidifuga]

Shane Drinkwater

[rylandgraces]

PHANTOM THREAD 2017, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

[typhlonectes]

Joseph Fasano

[petaltexturedskies]

There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself.

Virginia Woolf