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Daily reminder to love yourself fully and truly. Baby steps. Take a shower, wipe your face. Do a lil bum wiggle in the mirror. Pull a silly face.

The world is a beautiful place, full of rancid things that happen. But sometimes, it pays to focus on the good.

— Aristotle (via amargedom)

i feel like something we don’t talk about nearly enough is that the quote “if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known” is from a new york times opinion piece and the context of it being written was that a man emailed all his coworkers photos of a herd of goats he had rented and got sad when one of them accidentally cc’d him back “oof”

true love is when your pets know u dont feel good and they cuddle with u

i just found out that “fried oreos” are a thing in the US? what dont americans do???

Universal health care

the trifecta

The Sun Rising or as I like to call it Fuck off Sun I’m in Love

concept: it’s a rainy morning and we both have to get up soon but we’re stubbornly laying in bed, snuggled together trying to make the most of our remaining time to sleep. your arms are wrapped tightly around me and you squeeze me tighter as we snooze our alarm again, and again, and again.

pretty words to think of when the world seems so dark:

~ serendipity. have you ever had something unexpected happen that makes everything fall into place? that’s serendipity, the chance occurrence of events in a beneficial way.

~ petrichor. the sweet earthy smell of water droplets sinking into the earth after it rains.

~ aurora. dawn in the early morning. the first sweet smile of the sun as she warms the earth for another day.

~ denouement. the resolution of mystery. the comforting hug of finally knowing,

~ ethereal. invisible but detectable. something so delicate that it seems to be not from this world. the ethereal laugh of the one you love.

~ eveanescent. soon to be gone from sight, mind, memory or existence. short lived and quickly fading.

~ ineffable. to great to be described in words. incomprehensible to human language. definition: you.

~ heaven. the experience of pure bliss or peace. the definition can vary from person or religion.

~ lilt. a pleasant or gentle accent, a characteristic rise and fall of one’s voice.

~ mellifluous. when something is mellifluous, it’s pleasing, gentle and musical to hear.

~ panacea. a remedy for all difficulties, challenges or diseases.

~ sempiternal. something everlasting, unchanging and constant.

~ hiraeth. homesickness for a place, person or time you can’t return to or that never existed.

~ sonder. the realisation or knowing that each person in this world has a life as complex as your own. each has complex thoughts, ideas, plans, friends and more.

~ lacuna. a missing part or blank space.

no talk with us we angy

Details of The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833, by Paul Delaroche (1797-1856)

Caravaggio Narcissus 1596

Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio)

Giuditta che taglia la testa a Oloferne, (1597-98 ca.), Palazzo Barberini, Galleria nazionale d'arte antica, Roma

Artemisia Gentileschi

Giuditta che decapita Oloferne (1612-1613), Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Napoli

Mirror details from Quentin Metsys, The Money Lender and His Wife (1514),

Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait (1434)

and Caravaggio, Martha and Mary Magdalene (c.1598)

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Caravaggio, Bacchus/The Lute Player/Saint Jerome Writing/Young Sick Bacchus (details)