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[litverve]

"Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive."

Tennessee Williams, from a diary entry on February 25, 1942

[worldscoolest]

Tokyo 2008

[kosmogrl]

[proteidaes]

Moon joy 🚀🌕

[shakespearesdaughters]

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

[kosmogrl]

[louchan]

Ikuhara's Episode Commentary: 32: "The Romance of the Dancing Girls"

As a child, I tried to run away from home several times. Usually it was for trivial reasons, like my parents throwing away a manga I loved or a plastic model. I wanted a place to belong. And I believed that place was “somewhere else.”

Everyone needs to hear someone say, “Nobody else will do. It has to be you,” sometime in their lives, even if it only happens once. Just once is enough. As long as you can feel sure those words were sincere, you can live through anything, no matter how painful.

She’s seeking those words, too.

[panzerpauline]

Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes - St. Mary Magdalene in the Desert

[nightcorp]

[liberatingreality]

A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed all the unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[liberatingreality]

I suppose it’s no surprise that we feel the need to dehumanize the people we hurt—before, during, or after the hurting occurs. But it always comes as a surprise. In psychology it’s known as cognitive dissonance. It’s the idea that it feels stressful and painful for us to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time (like the idea that we’re kind people and the idea that we’ve just destroyed someone). And so, to ease the pain, we create illusory ways to justify our contradictory behavior.

Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

[liberatingreality]

The expectations of others often become self-fulfilling prophecies. Without realizing it, we often behave in ways that confirm the beliefs others have about us. Those subjective beliefs create new realities for us. We often become who other people think we are, in their eyes and in our behavior.

Philip G. Zimbardo, Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

[izpip]

i'm glad u understand.

[fairycosmos]

a light within me was stamped out but im chill

[dailyclassicart]

Howard Pyle - "The Garden Behind the Moon" (1895)

[dozydawn]

holly smart in the english national ballet’s alice in wonderland.

[portraitoftheoddity]

Touching grass ain't doing it anymore. I need to hike out deep into the forest and touch ancient lichen on a glacial erratic.