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“What if we simply didn’t meet? If I was dead before you were born? Or what if at the same time you were living your whole life in China and I had never left Europe?

Our eyes never crossed. Our hands never touched. We never exchanged a word. We never made each other laugh nor cry. We never made sweet love nor woke up with our bodies tightly intertwined. We. Never. Existed. And we could, we really could become everything, true everything to each other. If we had just met.

So, why do you suffer so much when someone you love goes away? At least, you had your chance. Be grateful for it. You shared a moment, one night or a whole year, doesn’t matter. You. Were. Something. And it’s true what they say, everything we love we will leave behind.

But, what about all those friends & lovers we never met nor will ever meet? For them, I cry sometimes.” —Ines Kotarac ‪#‎LateNightThoughts‬

watercolor by Kyungduk Kim

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My contempt towards a brand is directly proportional to how often they interrupt my playlists.

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I don't see people talking about this so today is the 110th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in where the factory owners locked working women and girls inside to "eliminate the risk of theft" (in reality it was too keep them from taking breaks), which resulted in the gruesome deaths of 123 mostly immigrant women and girls and 23 men, many of whom jumped to their deaths from the ninth floor either in a panicked attempt to escape or in order to die quickly. There were reports that some of the workers were on fire already as they jumped.

The eighth floor of the building was able to telephone the tenth floor to warn them about the fire, but the factory on the ninth floor where these women and girls labored had no such communication and such warning.

The factory owners were criminally charged with manslaughter for actions that contributed to the mass deaths but acquitted. However, this tragedy led to mass sympathy to the labor movement, and unions spurred on safety regulations that passed in New York state and eventually the entire country, and activists were able to reduce child labor in the process.

This tragedy is a reminder that has been forgotten in the 110 years since: every safety regulation-- every scrap of paperwork contributing to the hundreds of pages of red tape people like to complain about--every word of it was written in the blood of a laborer.

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Kirik in some steppe clothes. <3

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It’s what at the what now?

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‘heavy weighs the head’ - noctis lucis caelum

Redraw of an older piece that had been bugging me for a while. I just love him sm…

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zenos... he'll be back........ eventually

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NyxWeek2025

Thanks to everyone who responded! Based on your feedback, Nyx Week 2025 will be July 20-26th! Thanks for the excellent prompts! More info on the exact choices incoming. We do know that we will have with both a free day and alternate prompts. Keep an eye out for updates!

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Forest babies✨

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im suuuuuper tired. i think ill stay up for another 5-24 hours

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“If my heart was a house, you’d be home”

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You never realize how much space a person takes up in your life until... they're not there...

*sigh*