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i went to "mad at me" island expecting to find people i knew, something i understood. but when my boat landed, standing upon the shore were a million empty husks wearing my own face. every foot of the island was occupied, and everywhere i went, they watched me with contempt. they never spoke, never breathed. they simply watched. no matter how i grovelled and begged, snarled and cursed, tried to hide or kicked and hit, they simply stared. the hatred in their gaze was inescapable, but i could hardly return it, knowing that their doomed existence was of my own creation. knowing that the hatred was nobody's but my own. in the end i just wept, unable to stand the relentless gaze of my own infinite glare.

the guy who i accidentally cut off in traffic last week was there also

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Photography by Xuebing Du

Instagram: xuebing.du

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'shallow,' etching and drypoint, anders zorn, swedish, 1913.

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i don’t have flop posts i have cult classics and sleeper hits

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Takako Saito

Wine Chess, 2019

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“I am forever denouncing this therapeutic obsession that governs our modern society, scared of living and haunted by death. We must protect ourselves from everything, heal from everything. Nowadays, food, music, painting, hiking… everything is repurposed as a method for healing, for keeping fit, for keeping healthy, when these activities are first and foremost opportunities for pleasure, desire, gratitude, knowledge, wonderment, and bonding with others. Our entire culture, as well as politics, imposes on all citizens this endless and nagging preoccupation with mental and physical health.”

— Jacqueline Kelen, L’Esprit de Solitude

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I hope this email finds you, binds you, ties you to a pole and breaks your fingers to splinters, drags you to a hole until you wake up naked, clawing at the ceiling of your grave

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@emnomnos

new unreleased photos of cate blanchett (as carol aird) in carol.

📸: wilson webb

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Ethereum Core - Woven Cotton Throw Blanket Designed by Phillip David Stearns for Glitch Textiles - Blockchain Collection

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ritual magazine no. 11

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I think cats are right about the zoomies. I think every once in awhile you should run around the house as fast as you can and then sleep for several hours

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Self-Grown - Sirkka Palonen , 2025.

Finnish , b. 1948 -

Etching aquatint , 30 x 40 cm. Ed. 2/10.

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after the rain

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let's be geometric with mama

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sometimes i wish i could tell other women that you can just stop removing your body hair and in many cases the consequences will be way less severe than u expect. you can go to the beach with all your leg hair intact and nobody will stop you or say a thing. you can stop waxing your upper lip and people won’t stare at it the way u might be bracing yourself for. you can quit plucking your brows and eventually they will grow back into themselves and no one will even notice. like for sure women are punished for not participating in beauty rituals but i also feel like so much of it is like The Panopticon sometimes where you just convince yourself that if u stop that kind of gendered upkeep everyone will be mad and stop talking to u forever when in reality you just keep existing and nothing remarkable happens. it’s not always easy but you can kind of just stop for real