how are you at metabolizing shame?

'99

[bunabi]

I dont think art is for escapism. I dont think art should exist solely to comfort or entertain. And I don't think I should have eaten this party size bag of jalapeno chips.

[ymutate]

Andy Goldsworthy,

Ice Star, 1987

The sculpture was created in 1987 near the Scaur Water river in Scotland.

For this piece, he attached icicles together at their bases using his saliva, which would freeze to act as a natural glue.

[weltenwellen]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Heavy”

[thephotoregistry]

Fence and Hedge, Near Former Wall Area, Rudow from Berlin

Diane Meyer

[kosmogrl]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

― Frank O'Hara, Selected Poems

[oatmealdiva]

t’es woke toi 😦🫵 toi t’es un woke left😔🙄 tu supporte les trans pis les pronoms toi 🤨🏳️‍⚧️ veux-tu savoir mes pronoms? 🥱🔥 mes pronoms? 😳😤 que/bec. fran/çais. bar/be/que. go/habs/go.🍁🏒 bleu pis rose 💙🌹 toi c’est quoi tes pronoms? vas-y. dis moj tes pronoms?🧐😪 joe/bi/den? ru/paul? 🤭😒 j’vas prier pour toi 🫤🙏

[vibratome]

(trying to give relationship advice) from a narrative perspective i think both of you dying together would be the most emotionally satisfying resolution but i’m guessing that’s not what you want to hear

[cordspaghetti]

strange guests at the great northern watch over me

[sawed-on-shotgun]

Im glad they made up romance for stories and music but can you imagine how scary it would be to deal with all that for real

[sgeoffa]

[wovi]

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joy sullivan

[heavensghost]

Words by Chen Chen

[noodledesk]

i really liked this essay on why literary fiction is sounding so much Like That these days, especially work by asian american authors:

This entire process selects for homework-doers, personal entrepreneurs, and individualistic bureaucrats. It's why, like I said, the oracular outsiders, the Pauls of the world, who can't conform to society's expectations to check boxes and become legible to the powers that be, aren't in these programs and aren't getting the opportunities that are downstream of them. It's why you end up with tons of fiction about "my white boyfriend" and "everyone online is mad at me" or "anxious strivers in NYC" or "my annoying polycule." These are the obstacles this class encounters. You can't spend time, like Cormac McCarthy did, living in an unheated cabin in the Smokies, or embedding with the Mujahideen like William T. Vollman, or working as a psychotherapist like Olga Tokarczuk. You must move from strength to strength, always turning in your homework on time, and certainly never suffering a psychotic break.

-- Trip, Estragon News, The Oracular Outsiders and the Homework Doers

[symbolicinteractionism]

i quite liked the conclusion to the piece:

Maybe it's because that fiction is being written for the people already bought in. Art that is made for the purpose of institutional legibility and approval is dead on arrival. Writing must stand on the outside, viewing the world at a tilt. Our world is being eaten by word machines that can imitate us perfectly. Unless American letters find the courage to welcome back in the oracular, it will disappear, replaced by machine that can conform to the demands of institutional legibility—really, the demands of capital—better than any human ever could.

[pleoros]

Marco Poloni - Black Hole, from The Majorana Experiment, 2010

[xoxz]

drowning face down in a puddle style

[ladychapels]

Medieval tiles - Gloucester cathedral

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