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won't be using this blog anymore! everything i do, it's done from @cinnamonfennel

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Vintage Moschino Fall 1989 Leather Jacket with Floral Appliqué Details

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im screaming this is an aesthetisized screenshot of one of the worlds earliest email worms and caused over US$5B in damages

spiralfucker

Painful transformations web weaving

// Closer - Nine Inch Nails // "Thoughts in Ice" part 5 - Alex Smith // War of the Foxes - Richard Siken // Donnie Darko (2001) dir. Richard Kelly // I Don't Wanna Be Me - Type O Negative // Comme des Garçons: Poem T-Shirt - Junya Watanbe // Textpost by @kickasstorrents // Fight Club (1999) dir. David Fincher // Talk Show Host - Radiohead // The Impossible, III (bronze sculpture) - Maria Martins // Reflections - Hannah Diamond // Black Swan (2010) dir. Darren Aronofsky // She's Gone Away - Nine inch Nails //

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Cub Sport

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Ilya Kaminsky on the question of poetry as political witness and resistance from “Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (Garth Greenwell, Poets & Writers March/April 2019)

pimby

brought a kiss to the knife fight

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ANNE ARNOLD (1925-2014)

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Sawn and planed pine and mahogany furniture fragments. 430x265x970 mm; 17x10 3/8x38 ¼ inches. Circa 1955.

Swann Galleries

riinasawayama

in the mood for love (2000), dir. wong kar wai

tributary

hot take but i think pain should be discrete and purposeful (‘stop touching a hot stove’ and ‘stop bumping into furniture’) and then it should stop when it is no longer communicating useful and actionable information. you may disagree but i think chronic pain is bad.

tanadrin

there’s a hypothesis that long-duration pain, the kind of pain that lasts after the abrupt piercing of flesh, is not universal to the animal kingdom. almost all animals need to be able to react to immediate negative stimuli, and do, and so they have the kind of pain receptors necessary to tell them if something is attacking them or hurting them to flee. but for animals which are not sociable, which do not care for one another, and which therefore must nurse their wounds alone, to continue to feel intense pain after the immediate threat has passed would only weaken and distract them. longer-duration pain, extended suffering, is a consequence of our ability to express pain to others, adaptive only for animals who have mothers or siblings or other conspecifics who will come to their aid when danger threatens.

ms-demeanor

bruh. It's too early for these feelings.

elucubrare

one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".

Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people

elucubrare

also i had two quotes pop up in my head while writing this - du bellay's "heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage.../et puis est retourné, plein d'usage et de raison, vivre entre ses parents le reste de son âge" (happy he who, like Ulysses, has traveled much/ and then returns, filled with customs and [ways of thought], to live out his days among his family)

and Horace's "'Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)' -

there's a bunch more I could add on either side (Cavafy's "The City," for example) but the dialogue between travel as a complete transformation vs. personality as an unchangeable core is long indeed.

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c-kiddo

i love you smile-lines i love you balding i love you scraggly facial hair i love you hairy stomachs i love you acne i love you missing tooth i love you scars i love you stretch marks i love you callouses i love you freckles i love you chipped nails i love you faded tattoos i love you so many different and lived-in bodies i love you i love you i love you

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lesbiandomesticity

in the spring you are fresh hope, you are the rebirth, you are the sunshine that brings forth daisies and tulips and daffodils where your skin touches mine

in the summer you are a cool breeze on the hottest day of july, you are the smell of freshly cut grass in the morning and the crackling of bonfires at night, you are the relentless ocean wave kissing the sea shore no matter how many times you are sent away

in the autumn you are the warm light that sets the fiery trees ablaze, you are the crunch of tired leaves beneath my feet, you are the promise of warm nights lit by the yellow glow of the fireplace

in the winter you are the promise that the sun will soon return, you are the blanket of freshly fallen snow that covers everything and keeps it safe, you are the warmth of flannel sheets and blankets at the end of a long year