but if i gave up on being pretty

i wouldn’t know how to be alive

[diasporaslippage]

bellawynne.com

[heavensghost]

shame is sharp, and my skin gives so easy

[cosmonautroger]

Crash, David Cronenberg, 1996

[dreamstars]

[openingadoor]

Della (Street)

Ann Slavit

[darkly-entries]

[7151928]

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

[mournfulroses]

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2019

[eyexunt]

[mournfulroses]

Cecília Meireles, from "In Autumn, My Heart," featured in Antologia poética

[soracities]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from "Bus", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Simon Franklin) [ID'd]

[nsstym]

[mournfulroses]

Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold brooch inscribed "NOSTRE ET TOUT DITZ A VOSTRE [D]ESEIR (Ours and always at your desire)", France, circa 1400

from The Victoria & Albert Museum

[grlbts]

"The Girl on the Couch" (1930) by Chinese painter Pang Xunqin

[radfilmstills]

The Tree of Life (2011)

Dir. Terrence Malick / DP: Emmanuel Lubezki