midnight ramblings

poetic musings, art and nature

[santa-ana-winds]

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[derelicthousefootage]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[oldshrewsburyian]

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

[softhe4rted]

self-compassion: an antidote to shame mb

[bakwaaas]

@fairycosmos / Comic by @shhhitsfine / Comic by @incendavery

[bakwaaas]

@ryebreadgf / alison zai / phillip roth / unknown / @archbudzar

[pixelprincess00]

I thought I made peace with the mirror once, when I bargained with hunger. Of course, it made promises it never intended to keep. I traded my peace for perfection, warmth for worth.

“Devotion,” it said, “is measured by how little is left.”

As if shrinking is holy.

11.25

[beforeyearning]

[godisadandelion]

yellow leaves (a random access memory)

[pelicandensity]

Peeling the Paint Of Yesterday's Dreams

if unfulfilled they get old they dry out lose their color faded by regret their edges curl waiting to be stripped away and forgotten it takes effort to clear the wall of good intentions

[handsomeboymodelingschool]

You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

[puppy95]

David Shrigley

[bloodlessharmony]

Julien Baker, Loss Protocol

[joytri]

[qquell]

“there is no moral. the wolf eats you one day and until it does, the forest is beautiful.”

[shakespearesdaughters]

[blessyourheartlittleone]

virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions : "to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones."

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{—Amy Lowell, from The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell, "The Fruit Garden Path " // Mahmoud Darwish }

[flowerytale]

Jeanette Winterson, from Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

[whimsifae]

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves