[thequietedge]

Krakow, Winter 2024

📷 Fujifilm X-T2

[plushefemme]

not to be a hedonist but. pleasure IS the whole point, my loves. we are made for pleasure. humans have not survived out of spite or sheer grit or simply to make more humans. we live for pleasure. the pleasure of licking the last delicious crumbs off your fingers and feeling sunlight on your skin and massaging a loved one's shoulders. we're made to fill our bellies with delicious food, to nap in soft grass, to touch each other in joy and comfort.

there is no shame or guilt in our bodies doing what they were made to do. and we are made for pleasure.

[gxldbvby]

I wonder what it’s like to be loved even in your most boring or most darkest days

[mo0ndrool]

imagine everything in life blossoming for you, suddenly and all at once

[shakespearesdaughters]

[adicttive]

[kiefbowl]

Let’s say your matrilineal line is fairly consistent and everyone has their daughter at 25. So four women in your matrilineal line are born every hundred years. In a thousand years, that’s only 40 women. Like the math is so simple and yet ? You don’t think about it. So in 2000 years, 80 women. So basically, 0 AD started roughly about 80 mothers ago. That’s it.

[hawthorn56-deactivated20230602]

I’m……… i’m a little drunk n cannot deal with this right now

[thevideowall]

Yep

The advent of agriculture around 9500BC was about 450 mothers ago

[quousque]

you can’t just say shit like that without a warning

[annechen-melo]

Many, many mothers ago, when the world was new….

[systlin]

Many of the notes here are saying “But women used to have kids earlier”

Okay. So, assume every woman had her daughter at 20 instead. 

That’s five mothers in a century. 

Fifty mothers in a thousand years. 

One hundred mothers in two thousand years. 

That is five hundred and seventy five mothers since the dawn of agriculture. 

Less than six hundred women, between you and the dawn of civilization. 

You are never so far from your ancestors as you think. 

[selkie-on-land]

I love so much this one :

Many, many Mothers ago, when the world was new…

[idc0o]

some of yall didnt go insane at 15 and it shows

[mournfulroses]

Ema Saikō, from a poem titled "Forbidding My Sister Sake," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

[askistiyorumyadaolum]

[adicttive]

[konoko]

i want to sleep another 12 hours

[04k96]

[etoile-noirre]

having someone who understands your brain is a different type of intimacy.

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[free-my-mindd]

-Anaïs Nin, 1939

[kosmogrl]