split to the bone

divergent | independent | selective

[moonskek-deactivated20251028]

“Quatre Saisons“ by Takako Ugachi

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson

[soracities]

I had worn my mask for so long, and here was my opportunity to take it off, safely. I had stumbled to this action instinctively, out of a feeling that was not unique to me. I cannot be the only one who believes that if others just saw who I really was, then I would be understood and, perhaps, loved. But what would happen if one took off the mask and the other saw one not with love but with horror, disgust, and anger? What if the self that one exposes is as unpleasing to others as the mask, or even worse?

Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer (via soracities)

[wolfteethe]

People always ask if your trauma changed you but I was young, I don’t know who I was before my trauma. I don’t know who I would’ve been without it and I never will know.

[kylos]

The Phantom Menace (1999) | The Force Awakens (2015)

[driverdaily]

Adam Driver behind the scenes of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“My mind is no longer my own,”

Beirut Blues, Hanan Al-Shaykh (حنان الشيخ) tr. Catherine Cobham

[earstwo]

— to know him, lang leav (insp)

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“And at the center of the self, grief I thought I couldn’t survive.”

Poems 1962-2012: Vita Nova, ‘Aubade’ by Louise Glück

[driverdaily]

MARRIAGE STORY (2019)

[quotethat]

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

John Banville, The Sea (via quotethat)

[kyloren]

LNC of Star Wars: BEN SOLO | KYLO REN

[driverdelight]

[x]

[fitzwilliamsdarcy]

“‘What’s that bird?’ ” It’s maddeningly early for a Sunday morning, but Adam Driver, gleeful with his coffee and smoked salmon in the near-empty Brooklyn Heights café that’s his local favorite, is setting a scene. “We were shooting in the hills of Taiwan, and Marty kept hearing a certain kind of bird, asking everyone around, ‘What’s that bird sound I’m hearing? What’s that bird?’ It was really important for him to get it. And I don’t remember that bird! It was a detail I wasn’t absorbing.”

ADAM DRIVER for Time Out New York | Jake Chessum

[christophernolan]

ADAM DRIVER as BEN SOLO / KYLO REN

[kenobirey]

Kylo Ren/Ben Solo + weather

[roguewn]

insp.