UNREMARKABLE

"Their lives are easy and unremarkable. They're not awake."

[unremarkablegod]

Roberto Ferri;

[morganbritton132]

Me: You know how when you were a kid and you’d wish that you’d get sick or injured in a way that would justify why you didn’t live up to your potential?

Everybody, apparently: No?

[doppelbangin]

Run into a cave and break your ankle so that people have to come find you and they see you lying at the bottom of this beautiful cave and maybe there’s a waterfall and the light from the crystals makes you look really beautiful and they say “Are you okay?” and you say “I think so” and they say “oh my God have you been here alone this whole time with a broken ankle” and you say “it’s okay” and they say “you’re so brave” and you are brave and you look so beautiful surrounded by cave crystals and everyone stands over you and says “oh wow” and “you poor beautiful thing” and “I’m so sorry we let you run into the cave but I’m so glad we found you” and let them carry you home and promise to be your best friends forever and that everything’s their fault and also they named the cave after you and you’re prettier than all of your enemies and your enemies all died of jealousy while you were in the cave.

“How to Respond to Criticism” by Danny M. Lavery for The Toast

[dawn4ngel]

[absxnte]

When I sit before my mirror I laugh at myself. I am brushing my hair. Here are a pair of eyes, two long braids, two feet. I look at them like dice in a box, wondering if I should shake them, would they still come out and be ME. I cannot tell how all these separate pieces can be ME. I do not exist. I am not a body. When I shake hands I feel that the person is so far away that he is in the other room, and that my hand is in the other room. When I blow my nose I have a fear that it might remain on the handkerchief.

House of incest by Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977.

[girlbloggen]

lace set & top by younvzs fw 2023

[unremarkablegod]

When Georges Bataille said, "no greater desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound," and Oscar Wilde said, "a burnt child loves the fire," and Margaret Atwood said, "you long to be bandaged before you have been cut."

[dayvan]

from 2014

[notbylongshot]

Saint Sebastian

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Kelpie by Herbert James Draper (1913)

[raeiyyn]

Isn't all that rage so ugly? And isn't it mine, still? Good God, isn't it mine?

—Ashe Vernon, Buried, Not a Girl

[asoftepiloguemylove]

everything i've ever let go of has claw marks on it

Frank Bidart The Third Hour of the Night / Ashe Vernon IT'S A CIRCUS AND WE ALL PAID TO BE HERE / unknown / Rachel Swirsky A Memory of Wind / unknown / unknown / @borzoidaily

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: July 10. Storm, END ID]

[lionfloss]

迷宮森殿

[cunt-with-a-blunt-deactivated20]

"When we hate ourselves, we think we should be cut, mutilated, starved. We no longer seem to see these as social patterns but as individual problems. What has stopped us in our tracks and has us wandering from therapist to guru to astrologers and back? Why aren't bulimics radicalized and picketing Nutrisystems? Why aren't womyn pulling deodorants off shelves? What happened to study groups, to action groups, to rape speak-outs, to spray painters and saboteurs? Women are the majority of psychosurgery's victims, shock therapy is coming back as a treatment of choice -- why aren't there monthly (annual?) demonstrations at state mental hospitals? Why aren't all the feminist therapists, who say they are concerned with a radical analysis and new forms of healing, refusing to use the diagnostic labeling system that gives power to the system? What happened to the spirit of rebellion? Did it have an unhappy childhood, does it need bodywork?"

- Elena Dykewomon, "Notes for a Magazine" Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities

[sonjackcarl]

[bookcub]

I will always advocate for every queer person's right to be a fully autonomous sexual being-and that always must and always will include asexuals. Recognizing the significance of queer sex should not mean that every queer person should be mandated to meet an arbitrary sexual prerequisite in order for their queerness to be affirmed. Centering queerness around sex leaves very little room for queer folks for whom sex is insignificant, or for whom sex is never or rarely possible, or for queer folks who have never had sex before, or for queer folks whose only sexual experiences have been violent. It also leaves a lot of queer people, especially young ones, feeling pressured to have a certain amount or certain type of sex in order to legitimate or prove their queerness to themselves or to someone else.

-Sherronda J. Brown, Refusing compulsory sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

[suonko]

Émile Friant - Tots Sants [detail]

William Bouguereau - The Day of the Dead [detail]

Jakub Schikaneder - All Souls’ Day [detail] 

Emile Friant - La Douleur [detail]

Emile Friant - Angelus [detail]