the only reason i'm on my sudoku grind at 2:20am is because i have wants and desires that are driving me insane. to be honest

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Alvin Booth: Untitled (1999)

white jade snuff bottle qing dynasty, 18th century

My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”

Anne Sexton on her honeymoon

an assortment of creatures and critters and such

Fabric sample ‘Ornito’ with a pattern of stylized birds that have been designed with an enlarged fingerprint to which have been added beaks, eyes and legs. Material: cotton, metal, paper, 1968. Designer: Heinz Edelmann (1934-2009). Produced by the fabric manufacturer Weverij De Ploeg. TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands.

i love when a man is fresh of getting his ass beat. it’s like a pregnancy glow

Maya Kulenovic (Canadian, 1975) - Air (2007)

i miss everyone in the whole world but every day i shut myself in and draw tally marks on the walls of my cave with a carefree but steady hand and no regard to the passage of time

I’m cured btw. Of everything

brutalist candy cane