to devour is to change. to become is to love.

GUYS HELP ITS MIDNIGHT & I'M GOING INSANE OVER THIS QUOTE I FOUND 😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵

(by John Berger in The Shape of a Pocket)

The body of a poisoned swan found in a wetland in Wuhan, China. 2012.

Las garras de Lorelei - Amando de Ossorio 1974

Sachiko Kuru, c. 1980s

No End (1985) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski Artwork by Andrzej Pągowski

Shinoda Mitsuhiro, ‘Diverse Images of Japan’, silver gelatin photograph. (1930-1960)

Sorry to break it to you but you literally have to face your fears and slaughter them. Otherwise you will live a small life that you do not want. You literally have to view your biggest fears and attack them head on. You have to fall into the abyss to find your way out. The easy path does not exist. There is no get out of jail free card. You have to allow yourself to die a spiritual death over and over again in order to reinvent yourself into the person you are actually supposed to be. And you have to be painfully honest with yourself and the people around you. It’s horrible but it’s truly the only way.

standing reindeer carcass

obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.

I think the first step towards the life you want is often to just say yes to more things. Accept that coffee invitation from your coworker even if it seems awkward. Sign up for that free class at the library that you're not sure you'll like. Join that club. Book that tour. Say yes to as many things as you can and kill the part of your brain that gut-reacts with a no.

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

"Manaus-Chiapas NYC" (1999) Miguel Adrover's Debut Collection

The kind of sex I want requires like 3 layers of psychological manipulation