usubi

21+ : uk : ugrad

[delicacysblog]

“what was the most pain you have ever felt”

healing from someone, i once thought i would heal with

[thoughtcascades]

my favorite form of love is being loved without feeling like i was begging for it

[dark-romantics]

[thelostfilesofstudents]

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Henri Biva (French, 1848-1928) - A Woodland Lake

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Kathryn Cherry - Fish, Fruits, and Flowers (ca. 1923)

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Peder Mork Monsted - Frederiksberg Have (palace garden), 1923

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Ercole Magrotti (Italian, 1890–1967) - Pueblo de pescadores

[neptunesdesire]

Details: The Backwater, Charles William Wyllie

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

You cannot live alone on the fantasies you feed to your mind, eventually you have to touch your life for real, assess and analyze your habits, understand your character, try not to hate yourself for your character as it was shaped when you were very young by circumstances outside of you, and begin learning how to cope with your character, how to build habits that work for you, finish small projects, finish big projects, expose yourself to more uncomfortable situations, assess why you want to leave that friendship before you leave it, raise your anxiety levels on purpose, so that you can grow, raise your work load on purpose, so that you can grow, so that you can build resilience, so that your life expands, and can be experienced by you in full and in reality

[ryan-sometimes]

My favorite part about being sapphic is when the things I love about other women become things I love about myself. One day I was tracing another woman’s stretch marks in a dim bedroom light. And then, seemingly by accident, I was doing it to myself in my bathroom mirror. I loved the feeling of a full hand of flesh when I grabbed a woman’s hips, and then mine didn’t need to be so skinny anymore. I looked at a woman’s lower stomach pudge and thought it was so soft and cute, then never wanted a flat stomach again. Loving women can be so healing when you come from a world that doesn’t.

[cheruib]

that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing

[landsccape]

[finelythreadedsky]

my personal list of greek myth retellings that are actually good and do something interesting with the myth:

The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault

Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays, Christa Wolf

The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood

The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason

Here the World Entire, Anwen Kya Hayward

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles, Jeanette Winterson

Achilles, Elizabeth Cook

Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald

Averno, Louise Glück

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

Antigonick, Anne Carson

Oresteia, Robert Icke

Antigone, Jean Anouilh

Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl

Girl on an Altar, Marina Carr

Los Reyes, Julio Cortázar

Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell

O Brother Where Art Thou, Coen Brothers

honorable mention to Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia which doesn't count on a technicality

[finelythreadedsky]

updated version includes:

An Iliad, Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare

War Music, Christopher Logue

Molora, Yaël Farber

Medea, Christa Wolf

Black Orpheus, dir. Marcel Camus

and honorable mentions extended also to Nina MacLaughlin's Wake Siren: Ovid Resung and Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, which don't count due to the technicality of being Ovid

[apoherm-deactivated20231020]

“We are mistaken when we look forward for death; the major portion of death has already passed: whatever years are behind us are already in death’s hands.”

— Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius (via philosophybits)

[pratchettquotes]

Certainly he'd wanted to leave it behind, but that was the whole point. It would have been there. Even if he'd avoided it for the rest of his life, it would have still been a kind of anchor.

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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Johan Ericson - Scene from Marstrand on the west coast of Sweden (1914)