currently: in love

she/they | XXII | scorpio ⊙/↑, cancer ☾ | a demigirl lesbian with a big heart and a love of beautiful things

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you don’t have to get everything right to deserve love. you don’t need to earn love.

[random-brushstrokes]

Léon Étienne Tournes - Intimité (1901)

[classicalcanvas]

The Green Vinyard (1888) by Vincent van Gogh

[mournfulroses]

Maria Shriver, from her book titled "I Am Maria: My Reflections, and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing and Finding your Way Home,"

[omneco]

[flowrrs4u]

I am good. I am loved.

[bittersweet-poem]

[fframbuaz-deactivated20250820]

[landsccape]

[vangoghcore]

by yasminemei

[lanndscape]

[landsccape]

[anthony-samaniego]

cleo's garden

[bebs-art-gallery]

Two Women Kissing in Nature (b. 1859)

— by Georges Rochegrosse

[pnglove]

wax seal stamp pngs ♡

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[heavenlyyshecomes]

there is a level of seduction that exists beyond the body. something less tangible, and perhaps more potent. anais nin understood this idea about how desire does not begin with touch but with language, perception, and the sharp electric pull of a mind that challenges and excites you. in her journals, desire is not just a physical hunger but a hunger of the intellect, an unraveling of thought before an unraveling of the body. to be drawn into someone’s mind, to feel their thoughts press against your own, can be more intoxicating than any physical closeness.

—Caitlyn Richardson, 'can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?', in milk fed