#sometimes beautiful

[literarycatchall]

Never constant, sometimes beautiful, always brimming with the potential for grotesquerie and grandeur alike.

Gabrielle Bellot on James Baldwin’s Harlem

[krisxblueblood]

Sometimes Beautiful

Kris was sprawled out on the floor, his bare arms and lower legs pressing to the cool surface. Training sessions always wore him out but he felt a desire to find some way of winding down. This was it. In moments like these he was no longer in the training room of the safe house but instead in a room full of wondrous things. Vivid colors swirled and surrounded him. Thick vines hung from the ceiling and swayed in a wind that wasn’t there. Butterflies were everywhere. It was a common touch of his in the more pleasant illusions. The reminder of his boyfriend always made him feel more secure. No matter how dark his illusions got before he could always find a sort of relaxation afterwards as he experienced these. He often wondered why it was that his friends always walked in when his illusions were at their worst; why couldn’t they come in during the pleasant moments like these? Why couldn’t they experience the beauty that his illusions could also be? Sometimes it worried him to think that the only people who ever saw any beauty in anything he did were Yunho or Tao.

[megangracemae]

 Baz Luhrmann's directing style: oh, a shiny, sparkly, colorful loud object/person, Let me point a camera at it in 15 different angles in quick succession. *soundtrack* No no no, don't worry, it'll all make sense in post. We can fix that.

[notanartmaj0r]

someone just called me gorgeous.