[pmamtraveller]

"thorned braids" & "spiked braids.

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[bebemoon]

if you're not playing mermaids with me then i have to assume you're playing mermaids against me

[machinot]

I would take a job pushing the Sisyphus rock if it paid 20 an hour and I could wear my headphones

[petaltexturedskies]

My only pleasure was to swim under water with my eyes open, and my hair floating.

Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1939–1947

[metmuseum]

Table knife. 19th century. Credit line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/187581

[bebemoon]

vivienne westwood label, c. 1996 .

[bugsinpinkcum]

[achillesinhighheels]

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: July 1. Too tired. END ID]

[godkissedme]

[virgin-martyr]

“The girls drifts up out of her nightgown and its color. Her wings are fastened onto her shoulders like bandages. The butterfly owns her now. It covers her and her wounds. She is not terrified of begonias or telegrams but surely this nightgown girl, this awesome flyer, has not seen how the moon floats through her and in between.”

— Anne Sexton, excerpt from “Song for a Red Nightgown” from Love Poems

[ialwaysbelieve]

[monocrolight-deactivated2023072]

[ofshivelight]

"But remember that an "angel" is anything that carries out a mission for God. This includes forces of nature. An angel doesn't have to be an intimidating, fiery being... Photosynthesis? That's an angel. Gravity? An angel. Magnetism? Angel. The Midrash in Bereishis Rabbah (chapter 1) says than an angel only performs one job. That job doesn't have to be destroying Sodom; it could be peristalsis, centripetal force or condensation."

- Rabbi Jack Abramowitz, The God Papers

[funeral]

Trauma-Related Altered States of Consciousness (TRASC) Questionnaire

[eesirachs]

in the yawning opening, god’s cutting the heavens and the earth—the earth, formless unforming, unlit over the face of the deep. the exhale of god quivers over the face of the waters. utters god, then, "let fall the light," and light fell

—my translation of gen 1:1–3