little baby nothing

i die of thirst & drown in chains, in love

[islamic-art-and-quotes]

Cemetery in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Flickr

[thetorturegardens]

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[lifeinpoetry]

What distinguishes grace from everything else? Grace is unearned. If you’ve moved through the world in such a way as to feel you’ve earned cosmic compensation, then what you’ve earned is something more like justice, like propriety. Not grace. Propriety is correct. Justice is just. There’s an inescapable transactional quality: perform x good, receive y reward. Grace doesn’t work that way. It begins with the reward. Goodness never enters the equation.

— Kaveh Akbar, from Martyr!

[cyberxbattalion]

[littlestpersimmon]

Possessions

[orlaite]

TWIN PEAKS 02.22 | "Between Life and Death"

[thetorturegardens]

[adamwilliamjohnson-deactivated2]

David Lynch during the filming of Blue Velvet

[criminal-delirium]

“It is not a narrative of decline or progress, although having two sides was no small comfort to most. If it is to be viewed as a tale of our ascendance, then it should be compared to the enchanted climb of the cordyceps-infested ant, as alone in the canopy we sit, our bodies little more than the roots to a deranging idea still in hibernation. The bony growth will one day erupt through my skin and discharge its poisonous spores aloft with me attached to them; I will ride my way out of here on the back of a toxin puff, each of its spores wearing my smile forever.”

— Gary J. Shipley. Dreams of Amputation. 

[iphyelly]

some of my most cherished possessions

[thetorturegardens]

my boyfriends antique store is shutting down at the end of the month, but the silver lining is that now there’s an entire ostrich skeleton in my living room…

[thetorturegardens]

Hi! So, serious question. I'd like to get a similar tattoo of the cherub with a gun wearing the flower crown you have, but change the flower crown and modify the gun so it's not exact. Would that be ok with you?

you should do what makes you happy! i just found clip art of the angel & told my artist to add an AR-15, so i didn’t draw the angel or anything. send me a picture of yours when you get it, i’d love to see! you can also just look up victorian cherub pictures, that’s what i did. you might find one you like better too

[addax5]

[cinegif]

Jayne Mansfield in her heart shaped bathtub at her Pink Palace at 10100 Sunset Boulevard. 

[wozapi]

ngl all the white ppl in comments on posts about ice going after natives saying “deport them to where?” are pissing me off like we havent been seeing what happens to people picked up by ice for like a decade now, the same place as everyone else, “detention centers” with abysmal conditions and abuse. like stop being ignorant and think for 2 fucking seconds.

[official-kircheis]

you could say that the world’s richest man was stupid and impulsive enough to do a nazi salute on stage twice without considering the backlash, but really what I think happened is the world’s richest man implicitly or explicitly calculated that in the current political and medial environment he could do a nazi salute on stage twice and not suffer any adverse consequences. which is worse. a lot worse.

[cult-figure]