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“If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch.”

— Victoria Erickson (via virgoassbitch)

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articles and essays I keep coming back to:

“joy” by zadie smith (about, well, joy)

“roaming the greenwood” by colm tóibín (ostensibly a book review of the history of gay literature but actually just very incisive thoughts on…the history of gay literature)

“the murder of leo tolstoy” by elif batuman (about exactly what it says in the title)

“the love that dare not squeak its name” by david rakoff (about, i swear to god, stuart little)

“a room of one’s own” by virginia woolf (I mean, you know)

the entire lingua franca archive but in particular “bio hazard” by fred kaplan (about writing a biography of gore vidal) and “the stand” by daniel mendelsohn (about the role of a philosopher (martha nussbaum love of my life) in a colorado gay rights case in the 90s)

“the professor of parody” by martha nussbaum (about judith butler)

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waxing moon, salem, ma, june 2016

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“1. In one universe only the two of us can breathe underwater and the bottom of the ocean is where we first said “I love you” 2. In another, time resets and we fall for each other all over again every time 3. We are flowers growing alone on opposite sides of the field but a little girl and her mother pluck us from our homes and put us in a vase where we wilt together 4. Here, the sky changes color and you can touch each other through the wind so every time I feel a breeze on the back of my neck I know it’s your mouth and I smile, you feel the wind whistle through your teeth 5. This universe we were the same age. We learned to drive at the same time and spent hours driving to see each other even just for one night and never minded radio station static or the way your back always starts to ache in the car 6. We grew up together, you lived down the street, running down hills together and holding hands when it snowed. You were there when I turned six. You were there when I turned sixteen. You loved me the whole time. 7. You never kissed that girl, I wasn’t scared of heights. Your parents didn’t fight, I wasn’t so far away. We both got enough sleep. 8. We never screamed “I hate you” at each other that one night when we fought over dinner at your older sister’s house. We never forgot that we loved each other. 9. We could live in outer space. We bought our own star and always took pictures of each other to hang on the walls. You never got tired of me. We could breathe there in a way we never could here 10. You only lived an hour away instead of the other side of the world. I never cried. Neither of us knew what tears tasted like.”

— Things work out for us in every universe but this one (via extrasad)

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Upside-Down Mushroom Room by Carsten Höller

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Taken from Lee Shulman’s Anonymous Project for lost and found Kodachrome slides

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‘Revolution is the only solution to ecological collapse’

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Sweet words: Honeyed, meadow, elixir, ambrosia, seep, frolic, caress, nectar, syrup, sunkissed, fawn, doe, starlet, fig, almonds, vinaigrette, pear, shimmer, grin, pomegranate, tender, magnolia, dewy, spring, gardenia, translucent, elongated, linen, cotton, olive-skin, flushed, dawn, dusk, stained, and honeycomb.

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saccharine, sage, supple, plump, lithe, blossom, opulent, glow, sun-dipped, hibiscus, mellifluous, lull, sapphic, tremor, tantalize, porcelain, languid, surge, nebulous, jive, resounding, serendipity, affinity, beam, marigold, gumption, diaphanous, swell, resplendent, enthrall, mimic, realm, felicity, hallow

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snakes moodboard

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Cyclobe - Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window

cover artwork by Fred Tomaselli

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Eileen Agar - “Marine collage” - 1939

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“Implacably, dismally, prophetically, it is raining interminable tears of rain, it is raining lethargy, it is raining upon my flesh,”

— Jean Delville, from “The Horror of the Rain,” written c. November 1892 (via violentwavesofemotion)