“Karl Marx is most famous as a critic of capitalism, but at the heart of his critique can be found a desperate plea for the transformation of work. People, he argues, express themselves and create the world through creative and collective activity. This natural tendency is twisted into something unrecognisable in work under capitalism. He didn’t just think work around him was bad because it took place in noisy and dangerous conditions, or for low wages and long hours. The problem of work was a fundamental one: under capitalism, work takes something human and turns it into something monstrous. The forces of capital become ravenous, eating up all that is human, sucking on the very lifeblood of society.”

— Amelia Horgan, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (via probablyasocialecologist)

not unfollowing a mutual who hasnt posted in 9 months out of loyalty and love like a widow still setting a place at the dinner table for her husband who died in the war 

“You held me underwater and asked me why I could not breathe.”

— E. Grin, toxic.

next halloween i'm gonna go as the girl you can't have.

Diana Ross finishing a rib, 1980s

i accidentally showed some weakness earlier today it was disgusting i would not recommend it

*hugs you* because i feel like honestly we could all use a hug every now and then

Alnwick Poison Garden, England

People make mistakes, bad mistakes even. You don't have to forgive them, but did you forgive yourself? Or are your mistakes haunting you? If you feel bad, if you have apologized and changed over a long period of time, you can allow yourself to leave it behind and live a new life, outgrow your past. It's ok. You don't have to suffer forever. Leave the guilt in the past.

Miguel Hernández, from Twenty Poems; "It Would Have Been Less Painful,"

Mathilde Sussin in Anatol

German postcard by Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm., no. 4676. Photo: Becker & Maass. Mathilde Sussin in 'Anatol', a play by Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, published in 1893.

"yayy" is such a beautiful word. let's all cheer forever 🦔