[gracedenton]

Zakia Sewell - collages made to accompany My Albion, BBC Radio 4

[forestgreenlesbian]

blackberries ripe already fuck my stupid global warming life

[pouringforever]

a ripe nectarine by Loch Eck on the most beautiful day

[petaltexturedskies]

I feel entirely dehumanized by the sun now and wish for fog, snow, rain and humanity.

Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Edward Sackville-West, written c. September 1926, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. III, 1923-1928

[yakubgodgave]

Ana Mendieta - Arbor de la Vida (from the “Tree of Life” series)

[achillesinhighheels]

Naomi Osaka at 2026 Wimbeldon wearing Hana Yagi

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

[ortodelmondo]

Gertrude Käsebier, Zitkala Sa, 1898

[bad-moodboard]

Hyde Park Pet Cemetery, London (Opened by accident in 1881)

[escuerzoresucitado]

[mybeingthere]

Birds by KIKI SMITH (b. 1954, Germany)

Kiki Smith was raised Catholic and draws heavily on traditional bird symbolism. She uses birds—particularly doves, which represent peace, the Holy Ghost, and freedom—to examine spirituality and mortality.

She kept birds as a child for over a decade. This lifelong affection evolved into a desire to incorporate animals into her art to represent our shared instincts, movement, and vulnerability.

Her process is deeply tactile. She often creates bird reliefs and sculptures using materials like bronze, aluminum, and silver. She views the natural behavior of birds as its own form of environmental "technology"—using the things around them to flourish and build architecture.

https://www.pacegallery.com/.../a-bird-is-technology-in.../

[iamheavymeta-lll]

[thingsworthsaving]

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.

-James Baldwin

[xphaiea]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sleeper (1847)

[i-am-a-fish]

don't be mean to yourself that's you

[i-am-a-fish]

you live there

[apocryphics]

[simena]

Pierre Bonnard (detail)