[smsomah]

Tuareg; Algeria, 1975. Scanned from the book Le Désert des Kel Ahaggar; 1982; Henri Bancaud

[quotespile]

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[treecitysessions]

There’s a catastrophic female loneliness epidemic happening rn but nobody gaf bc women aren’t going out and hurting people about it we just betray and destroy ourselves for nothing

[smsomah]

Imilchil, Morocco. Scanned from the book Sukemaru Itoh Photography #1; 1980; Yumaru Ito

[papayajuan2019]

muscle memory is so beautiful to me. my body remembered better than i did. yet we're the same thing, with the same memory.

[lestatdelioncuort]

Evil of my evil

[letterful]

[trainstationgoodbye]

Claudia was… everything. I loved her unconditionally. All the noise, the chaos, the crisis of my former existence, silenced. The simple joy of her hand in mine. You had a daughter. I had a daughter.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | SEASONS 1 & 2

[reticent-vampire]

You two hug it out for her too?

[smsomah]

The coiled, leather-covered basket is used for the milking of camels. Scanned from the book The Craft Heritage of Oman; 2003; Neil Richardson & Marcia Dorr

[borderepisteme-deactivated20260]

"Anyone who has ever tried to recount a dream to someone else is in a position to measure the immense gap, the qualitative incommensurability, between the vivid memory of the dream and the dull, impoverished words which are all we can find to convey it: yet this incommensurability, between the particular and the universal, between the vecu and language itself, is one in which we dwell all our lives, and it is from it that all works of literature and culture necessarily emerge."

Fredric Jameson, Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan

[endiness]

[smsomah]

Odisha. Scanned from the book L'Inde des tribus oubliées; 1993; Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone

[smsomah]

Afghanistan, 1939. From Ella Maillart - Double Journey (2005)

The explorer and photographer Ella Maillart and the writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach set off from Geneva by car with Kafiristan as their destination.

[smsomah]

Afghanistan, 1975. Françoise Foliot

[smsomah]

A class of the girls school, Afghanistan. Date of photograph: 1960. Schuyler Jones

[smsomah]

Peshawar, 1939. From Ella Maillart - Double Journey (2005)

The explorer and photographer Ella Maillart and the writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach set off from Geneva by car with Kafiristan as their destination.