on Survival and Hope
Grant Howitt, Franz Kafka, Walt Whitman, Bruce Springsteen, Susan Sontag, Melina Marchetta, @seravph , Mary Oliver, Keaton Henson

on Survival and Hope
Grant Howitt, Franz Kafka, Walt Whitman, Bruce Springsteen, Susan Sontag, Melina Marchetta, @seravph , Mary Oliver, Keaton Henson
sylvia plath | as consciousness is harnessed to flesh, susan sontag | invitation, mary oliver | imaginary conversation, linda pastan | birthday, andrea gibson | good bones, maggie smith | the painted drum, louise erdrich | mouthful of forevers, clementine von radics | new year’s eve, maggie smith
You tossed and turned in your sleep, even though I told you that you were safe here. It was rude.
i love this man
[ID: text reading “& isn’t it something how I’m always writing about sunlight, & isn’t it something how I’m always writing about hope.” End ID.]
Uni keeps making me have Left Hand of Darkness takes
– Faraj Bou al-Isha (b. 1956), “Wait” translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa in: “Poems for the Millennium. Book of North African Literature”, edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour
"ccute baby bunny compilation" "cutest rabbit videos!" "cute bunny so sweet every video" NO. i want FUNNY rabbit. i want rabbit STUPID compilatiom. I want every video of a rabbit thumping over some inane thing . i want a compilation of ever rabbit thats ever jumped in a trash bin. show me the goddamn animal
I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023
I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.
id in alt
“[religious self-injury] Saints’ lives detail some of the most extreme forms of these practices [of bodily mortification], but their authors claim that the descriptions are intended only to impress readers and listeners with the miracles performed…One medieval writer (known to have sent scourges to fellow clerics) advised moderation. “There is no need to compete with Christ. To do so would be vain; moreover, it is tedious to have to wash blood stains from one’s clothes.””
— Karen Silen, “Elisabeth of Spalbeek: Dancing the Passion” in Women’s Work: Making Dance in Europe before 1800, Lynn Matluck Brooks, ed.
the urge to disappear into the forest and become local folklore
Allegory Of Medical Science, 1914 by Robert Auer (Croatian, 1873–1952)
These posts right in a row are really doing something for me