Maladaptive deeply held belief: nobody could ever love me. Im going to die alone

Positive counterthought: maybe someone has an exceptionally rare form of mental illness that would cause them to make the grave mistake of wanting to fuck me

Miles Cleveland Goodwin (American, 1980) - Deciduous Spirit (2018)

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

i left a poem out over night. one hundred lovesick beetles and ants in the kitchen

basically once you realize you're too much of a clumsy and impatient oaf to be a great artist the world opens up again and you can pursue such exciting opportunities as being a permanent adjunct at an R3

Charing Cross, London. December 2012.

gagging you with our red string of fate to shut you up for one fucking second

speaking of, i've just finished careless people finally and if a fraction of what's in this book is true then the fascism situation wrt facebook is much worse than anyone imagined

yknow it has for a long time been extremely clear that facebook's negligence directly enabled the rohingya genocide, but the sheer level and idiocy of that negligence revealed in this book would be comical if it didn't have a horrific cost in human life

al.chl

Jemima Kirke at Marina Abramović’s ‘The Artist Is Present' @ the MoMA