Andrew Wyeth
Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für die Jugend - 1839 - via Staatsbibliothek Berlin
would also like to add i’m not hard pressed for him to like me i just don’t want or need mind games. im fine with just a casual fwb situation, but he’s initiated all of the affection and outward declarations of liking me and so im more so trying to figure out if that’s all bs and he feels the need to do that to keep me around or if it’s coming from a genuine place bc i don’t need someone lying to me extensively rn. i really really don’t need that
okay in the court of public opinion:
if you’re hooking up with a guy and he says he likes you multiple times, texts you everyday (tho half the convo is sexual and tho you’re not mad about that) and is super affectionate with you outside of sex and you talk a lot in person sometimes for a good solid hour or two…..does he actually like you or are these mind games? i’m so fucked up from my recent abusive ex that i have no idea if this is all an act or if his feelings are genuine
oh and you sleep over all the time and see each other once or twice a week every week for about a month now and you both give each other a lot of hickeys like is there anything to read into here or am i just a dummy
Cinnamon and sugar puff pretzels
Photo by S. Sedler (1979)
Domenico Gnoli (1933-1970) — Under the Shoe [acrylic and sand, on canvas, 1967]
mai nakama
“I like Simone Weil’s idea that writing is actually the translation of a text we already carry within us. That notion makes a heavy task lighter. In fact, though, writing is the backbreaking work of hacking a footpath, as in a coal mine; in total darkness, beneath the earth. In poetry there are moments of illumination. A streak of light falls in the dark corridor, then the darkness slams shut overhead once more. In prose the darknesses are even thicker, the black clods even harder.”
— Anna Kamienska, from “In That Great River: A Notebook”
Natalia Rybka - Jest więcej/There's more (oil on canvas), 2020
Natalia Rybka (Polish, 1988)
You can't go back
dostoyevsky kinda ate with “your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
Andreas Smetana
There is so much more life to live when you stop constantly obsessing over who will think you're a bad person or not understand you
I am learning this in the tiniest bites but it pierces me deeply