Cygnus Loop © Aleix Roig

“Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.”

— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin

by Johannes Plenio

Deus Ex

“& when the darkness comes: devour it.”

— N.L. Shompole, The Monday Papers, Kingdoms in the Wild (via kingdomsinthewild)

      [come_on]          [make_me_feel_it]

i know you’re scared, but i’m here to help you… okay? you don’t have to be scared anymore.

requested by bullet-fuzz

“Men cannot be men—much less good or heroic men—unless their actions have meaningful consequences to people they truly care about. Strength requires an opposing force, courage requires risk, mastery requires hard work, honor requires accountability to other men. Without these things, we are little more than boys playing at being men, and there is no weekend retreat or mantra or half-assed rite of passage that can change that. A rite of passage must reflect a real change in status and responsibility for it to be anything more than theater. No reimagined manhood of convenience can hold its head high so long as the earth remains the tomb of our ancestors.”

Jack Donovan

Blue Velvet, dir. David Lynch