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For the love asks meme, Dearest: What item is most dear to you?

My mentor and beloved friend made me a custom piece of body jewelry without me knowing, She bent niobium wire, anodized it this beautiful blue/green shift, and set tiger’s eye stones in it. It’s actually two pieces made custom for my double conch piercing she also did for me,It’s beautiful, one of a kind, makes me feel like a forest spirit, and most of all it’s something that she clearly put so much love in. In my humble opinion, it far surpasses every other piece of jewelry she made before it, and she made it for me. Not for any special occasion or anything, just because she wanted to.

I value those rings a whole lot.

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Look, not to sound like a pinterest board, but reading someone’s favorite book really is one of the best ways to get to know a person.

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dionysus

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if you’re not standing barefoot in the heart of a foreboding forest and chanting to the old gods as the moonlight tangles its fingers in your messy hair and caresses your dirt-streaked cheeks what even is the point

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L E G E N D A R Y

Photos by Carey Lynne Fruth and Sophie Spinelle of Shameless Photography

( he / him or they / them please )

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[image desc: 5 images of me, a nonbinary indian wheelchair user wearing a flower headdress, claw necklace, and black dress surrounded by flowers, skulls, and fruits. (1) me sitting in my wheelchair looking off into the distance (2) me laying down surrounded by moss, flowers, bones and fruit (3) me holding a pomegranate looking at the camera (4) me sitting on the floor with my arm resting on a draped stool (5) me in my wheelchair holding a skull and pomegranate]

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Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild and Baron Alexis de Redé at her 1972 Surrealist Ball at Ferriéres.

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Léon Spilliaert

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HOW you worship is significantly less important than WHY you worship.

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PENTHEUS I seem to see two suns. Two of Thebes, the seven-gated city. And you - I think you go before me as a bull. Horns have come up upon your head. Were you an animal before? For certainly now you are a bull.

THE STRANGER The god is with us. Before, he was not kind. He is with us. Now, you see as you should.

The Bacchae, Euripides (trans. Ruth Padel)

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“Corybantic treatment of mental disorders was based on the idea that madness was to be cured by means of madness: the release from distress, envisaged as possession by a divinity, comes as a result of a cathartic paroxysm.”

— Yulia Ustinova, Combat Stress Disorders and Their Treatment in Ancient Greece

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“You can’t put people through the rites that don’t know they’re going through rites. Of course that’s not going to work. [laughing] It was - what’s the word? - advertising. That’s all. That’s alright. You really… mm… you keep trying to do it in a way that feels nice, you keep trying to have a good time. You can't… [exasperated sigh] You can’t start with the party and hope the madness comes out of the party. Do you see? You’ve done it backwards.”

— Agdistis, UPG

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The Bower Meadow, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Medium: oil,canvas

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Veronica Veronese, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Medium: oil,canvas

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Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? I am your labyrinth…

Friedrich Nietzsche - Ariadne’s Lament

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“The one I love is dark: he is an herb growing in secret places, an herb that heals wounds.”

— Mirabai, tr. by Robert Bly, from The Winged Energy of Delight; “Faithfulness,”