[toomanyrats]

on shame and yearning (pt.2)

[pacey-grey]

I made a baby blanket for a pregnant woman at work and I went back and forth about it like “is this weird? To like hand make something for someone when we’re like friendly acquaintances not like bffs. God why are you so fucking awkward.” Anyway I gave it to her and she said she loved it and in the back of my head I’m like yea she’s nice and probably just humoring the weirdo. Well she texted me a picture this weekend of a scrunchy faced newborn at the hospital wrapped in the blanket I made her. And I’m like. Wow. She loved it so much she took it with her! To the hospital! To give birth! She wrapped her newborn it! I am just so filled with love and joy right now.

People will love the things you make them. Because you thought of them and you cared.

[lushed]

when hayley williams said "i wasted all my teenage years being a misery factory" and marina said "wish i'd been a prom queen fighting for the title, instead of being sixteen and burning up a bible" and mitski said "instead of pursuing something or going out and learning about or changing the world, i directed all that fire inward, and burnt myself up"

[sexhaver]

it's actually kind of crazy how disproportionately good at Posting trump is/was. like 8 of the top 10 funniest tweets ever made are from him, and it doesn't even seem like he particularly tries. he's just like that. natural born Poster forced into the spotlight. of course his presidency was a disaster, it's like electing a racist unironic version of Dril

[sexhaver]

just off the top of my head

[sexygaywizard]

[autismking]

holy shit

[barrtnouveau]

Figures Drinking From The Fountain Of Inspiration (After Constant Montald)

[metamorphesque]

The Cathedral, Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917)

[nevver]

Three on a couch, Alexander Varvaridze

[nyc-looks]

Malena, 24

“I’m wearing a vintage sweater and No Doubt shirt from eBay. I made my pants out of a blanket, my shoes are the Beams x Crocs collab and my bag, sunglasses and jewelry are all thrifted. I get dressed based on a mood I would like to embody during my day and I like to try and have fun with what I wear and not take it too seriously! I’m inspired by anything that makes me feel like I’m being my truest self.”

May 2, 2022 ∙ Greenpoint

[jeffbuckleyforever]

Early draft of "Lover, You Should’ve Come Over" from the book Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice.

[suntara]

my favorite love language is trying, actually

[suntara]

like when people try to learn your hobbies or try to play the same sports that you play in an effort to get closer to you, people who try to love you the way you love people, people who will go to places you want to visit just for your sake, people remembering, putting in an effort. just. trying

[mityenka]

[forthegothicheroine]

I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains.  Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does.  Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be.  Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does.  This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.

[195195119511951-deactivated2021]

“Leisure, Hannah, Does Not Agree With You,” Hannah Gamble

[merelhyn-deactivated20230720]

[Image description: a poem that read:

My house disgusted me, so I slept in a tent. My tent disgusted me, so I slept in the grass. The grass disgusted me, so I slept in my body, which I strung like a hammock from two ropes. My body disgusted me, so I carved myself out of it.   My use of knives disgusted me because it was an act of violence. My weakness disgusted me because “Hannah” means “hammer.” The meaning of my name disgusted me because I’d rather be known as beautiful. My vanity disgusted me because I am a scholar.   My scholarship disgusted me because knowledge is empty. My emptiness disgusted me because I wanted to be whole. My wholeness would have disgusted me because to be whole is to be smug. Still, I tried to understand wholeness   as the inclusiveness of all activities: I walked out into the yard, trying to vomit and drink milk simultaneously. I tried to sleep while smoking a cigar. I have enough regrets to crack all the plumbing. I’m whole only in that I’ve built my person from every thought I’ve ever loved.]

[amazoogle]

Have and Have Not (2006) Crystal Schenk

[hhawkeye]

currently thinking about: this photo of richard sandells kissing the eros statue in piccadilly circus as part of an outrage kiss-in protest against the prosecution of gay people showing affection in public.

[valtsv]

i can't vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. "oh i'd never do that i would have remembered my father's warning and been fine". do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn't want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you're too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you'd be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.

[valtsv]

[womenundertheinfluence]

KATE BUSH, Amsterdam - 1978. Photographer unknown