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"She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of an identity. She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind."

-Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez

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expensiveity

reminding myself that there’s so much life to live, friends to make, people to fall in love with, cute outfits to wear, gelato to taste, fragrances to wear, hair colours to try, countries to explore and fruits to taste.

"She clung to her husband. And it was just at that time when he needed her most, because he suffered the disadvantage of being ten years ahead of her as he stumbled alone through the mists of old age, with the even greater disadvantage of being a man and weaker than she was. In the end they knew each other so well that by the time they had been married for thirty years they were like a single divided being, and they felt uncomfortable at the frequency with which they guessed each other's thoughts without intending to, or the ridiculous accident of one of them anticipating in public what the other was going to say. Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other mortal trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore."

-Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez

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design-is-fine

Kichizaemon VII, Chônyû (1714-1770), tea bowl / chawan. With a splendid kintsugi technique. Japan. Via André Kirbach Gallery

A celebration of damage. Kintsugi is the art of mending broken pottery, based on Zen Buddhism and “wabi-sabi“, a spiritual awareness of beauty. The golden joinery illuminates the imperfection, underlines the “scars” and resurrects the life cycle of the object. The repair endows the old artifact with a new design, even more refined as the original.

The master craft kintsugi is around 500 years old. The craftsmen used laquer resin (milk from a tree) and mixed it often with powdered gold, silver or platinum. Once applied it is durable and food safe.

fullmetalswift

nocompassnosign

no discourse. just hear song by taylor swift, like song, sing along to song

kilbygirrl

does anyone else love the vibe when you’re leaving a concert and everyone’s just walking on the roads together or is that just me??

waterthedirtflowerslastforyou

dont make me tap the sign

oldfarmhousefallfeatures

~Word (food) for Thought~  Inspired by @rachelswandesign-blog (edited)

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atheist-xmas

I hate driving because you have to do everything perfectly as fast as possible or everyone around you will announce their displeasure with airhorns

atheist-xmas

oh and if you mess up you die and kill a bunch of people at the same time

filmnoirsbian

As a lesbian i will always relate more to trans women than cishet women. Made to feel disgusting and predatory in women's spaces? Check. Berated and mocked for our relation to sexuality and womanhood? Check. Hated for our "deviancy from the norm"? Check. Every single essay about womanhood by a trans woman--and especially, especially by trans wlw--has spoken more to me than anything written by a cis straight woman ever could. T*rfs can take that to the bank.

pantlesshero

also, may I add because it's not just the negative stuff. there's so much positive connection:

gender euphoria experiences with a self determined approach to womanhood, attraction and sexuality

celebration of bodies beyond the norm

creating our own culture of appreciating complex and intertwined expressions of gender and sexuality

destigmatization and newfound respect of and for our bodies

true sisterhood based on choice not force

the inherent revolutionary nature of our existence and our love and community

creating space for exploration of pleasure and identity

countsuckula

These posts were fundamental in my coming out as a woman and hopefully someone else will see them and see the overflowing love and acceptance that is waiting for them too.