I feel like wanting things has been important to being happier for me

I just want you all to know, that if and when this site does experience a real exodus and/or get sunsetted for good, even if we don't keep in touch I'll remember you so fondly. You're the online equivalent of the other kid on the beach where we built sandcastles together; the girl at the campsite where we explored the trees. You're the drunk person who shared kind words in the bathroom at the club, you're the talented artists at the life drawing class or the poetry night in a city where I don't live anymore. It makes me sad that maybe in the future our paths won't cross so easily, but even when we leave this little shared piece of cyberspace, carried away on our briefly intersecting trajectories, just know I still love you

Marc Davis The Day Dreamer Published Original Watercolor Painting (Walt Disney, 1939)

Created during one of the Walt Disney Studio's anatomy drawing classes.

LUCILLE CLIFTON

hi I'm from your pseudo-medieval fantasy city. yeah. you forgot to put farms around us. we have very impressive walls and stuff but everyone here is starving. the hero showed up here as part of his quest and we killed and ate him

"Well, properly applied, anything can be a weapon. Kindness can be a weapon."

The Expanse (s.4, e.10)

Even Biden supporters want this motherfucker gone like what are we doing here?

thomas cromwell: *shows up in the afterlife without his head*

anne boleyn: 

A satirical papyrus showing a lady mouse being served wine by a cat while another cat dresses her hair, a third cares for her baby, and a fourth fans her. The mice have hilarious huge, round ears.

Where: Egyptian Museum Cairo

When: New Kingdom

Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,”

I understand feeling like you've got no time to take care of your mental and physical health. I understand feeling like there's more important things to be worrying about.

But if you don't choose to do it, your body will eventually force you to. It will be at the most inconvenient time, it will stop you from doing those other important things all together and you will feel like utter shit.

So please, put yourself above the important stuff before you can't physically do it due to neglecting a huge aspect of yourself.

a horror movie about making a horror movie. wait, don't walk away. a horror movie about one of those grueling seventies productions that broke every OSHA rule—long, exhausting shoots in the middle of the woods, presided over by one of those directors convinced of his own genius and certain the only way to get the performances he needs is to relentlessly isolate and gaslight his female lead. the crew are terrified of the director's outbursts and so are going along with it. there's one other woman in the cast but she plays the one who takes her shirt off earlier in the film and then dies, and the director has done everything in his power to turn these two people against each other, the better to keep his female lead unbalanced and unsure, and when the deeply disquieting scary stuff starts happening for real, the female lead has nobody to confide in and assumes it is the director very characteristically going out of his way to fuck with her. one of the camera operators gets possessed and is being flung around the trees, head spinning as he oozes an acidic black liquid and the female lead is like, "i can't let fucking jerry think he's getting to me." and then—this may be too much, idk—the only way the two actresses can figure out what's really going on is to acknowledge that they've been pitted against each other and that they really don't have any reason beyond this not to trust each other, so they compare notes and that's how they discover that hey, this production actually is cursed.

Watering lilies, 1955.

Photo: Ernie Sisto

TATTOO DESIGN by SUTHERLAND MACDONALD | 1905

A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.