I’m going to unlearn shame *bursts into tears and beats my head against a brick wall*

Fish [enter text] me women [enter text] me

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (German, 1789-1869)

Italy and Germany

Lady Godiva by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1891)

The Pearl by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1894)

Monotropa Uniflora, also known as Ghost Plant, is an herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to temperate regions of Asia, North America, and northern South America

Spring (Romaine Brooks, c. 1910-13)

The Chinese Statuette, c.1910 Richard E. Miller

Pandora by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1882)

Young Woman With Sword by Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828-1891)

Dress, 1858–60, American, silk

Evening dress

maker unknown

c. 1859-1860

Glasgow Museums

In her essay Less TikTok, More Screaming, Persinette writes that these e-therapists have turned healing into “a religion, a lifestyle, and above all, a brand” while promoting a culture of isolation and individual optimization. In this ecosystem, “...therapy has become a litmus test for social belonging and inherent goodness, a sign that one is aware of and has adapted to the newest standards of how to behave.”  The social standard this culture offers is one of controlled, placated solitude. Its narrative often insists that you’re surrounded by toxic people who are trying to hurt you, and the only way to ever become the person you’re meant to be is to cut them all off, retreat into a high-gloss cocoon of talk therapy and Notion templates, and emerge a non-emotive butterfly who will surely attract the relationships you’ve always deserved — relationships with other “healed” people, who don’t hurt you or depend on you or force you to feel difficult, taxing emotions. And finally, your life will be as frictionless and shiny as you, alone, have always deserved for it to be.

Rayne Fisher-Quann, no good alone

Shirley Mallmann, Dior Spring Couture 1998 by John Galliano

Vintage butterfly faires..

Vintage dexterity puzzle PNGs.

Maria Annunciation Cross OP by Juliette et Justine