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the inherent romanticism of handwritten letters.
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i used to think that icarus’ death was just a tragic accident—the kind so prevalent in greek mythology, where the hero survives the most dangerous part but tragedy befalls in the most unexpected/preventable way as a result of hubris/arrogance/carelessness. but icarus’ fate was no accident. tragic, yes, but also beautiful in its inevitability: a tribute to the inexorable entanglement between love and death, desire and destruction, intimacy and decay — all of which are ultimately just forms of want and loss. after all, everything has a price, an equal and opposite reaction.
desire is synonymous with fire. it’s something i think mortals are only capable of experiencing in tiny doses: little fires in our guts, live wires down our spine, warm flushes across our cheeks. like taking very small sips of too-hot tea, desire must be drawn out over a lifetime of intimacy—lest it burn us up completely. but apollo feels things with all his immortal intensity: he is pure fire and light and heat. i am not sure there exists a purer form of love than that of the sun.
this is why icarus’ fate is no accident, nor another allegory on the dangers of hubris. it was inevitable from the start. the same way achilles’ virility and vitality was paid for with his death at such a young age, the heat from apollo’s fleeting, fatal moment of desire for icarus is the same as a lifetime’s worth of slow-burning love between two mortals.
i like to believe that icarus didn’t lose his life—not exactly. he just lived it all at once in a single, blazing moment of intimacy with the sun.
People are gonna get tired of constantly reaching out to you, and you not reciprocating. If you haven’t, call the person who always checks on you. Ask them how they are doing. Begin to appreciate the people who care about you. Acknowledge selfish behavior and strive to correct it.
“True love is like a ghost many have talked about, but few have seen.”
— the sad truth (via hatin)
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
To write is to be immortal.
Burberry Babe 🤎
Photos of women of color from the Victorian era are hard to come by.
richard siken / salma deera / jen mazza / joy ladin
Takato Yamamoto.
Metropolitan Museum of Art · 18th Century French Decorative Arts // February 14th, 2020
excerpt from Plato’s Symposium, trans. Anne Carson
“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts”
-Marcus Aurelius
the sexual tension between me & what i’m capable of
“By spring, Beverly’s soul had ascended. She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side, and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.”
- Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1983)
Concept: it’s 3am. Candle lit room. A record is spinning. You’re kissing me. We have no worries in the world. We’re warm and content
If you know what’s “wrong” with you then change it. Stop talking about it and start doing something about it. And stop saying what you are doing is not working because it is. It’s just your old belief system trying to drag you down but don’t fall for it. You are not a loser👏🏼
"We give so much emphasis to romance and sexual love, I think it's so grossly overrated. We are always finding this one person to fill our void and our desires but why don't we allow platonic love that space? How wonderful is it to have this amazing loving group of friends that you resonate with who you love and are loved by for all of your faults and scars! Is it not incredible that we get to choose our family, love these stupid goofs that we chose and be there for them as they will be for you without any obligations! You are not bound to each other by merely sex or physical attraction or money or children or property but only by a mutual dedication to love each other always. Isn't there something so honest and bare about it? Yes romantic intimacy is beautiful and exciting but I think platonic love is so underrated although it is just as higher or deeper form of love as romantic love is if not more. It too can make your heart pound and heart flutter and maybe sometimes fill you up with insecurities or jealousy and make you nervous to act upon it and that's alright. If you give FRIENDSHIP enough emphasis it can just as beautiful and full of meaning as any relationship. I believe all loves are equal (despite of how much society prioritizes romance over everything) and will bring joy to your heart if you stop only emphasizing on romance. Give Platonic love just as much space and importance in your life and see how your soul will dance with glee."
Source: stuckinthewrongera Ar/φυστίκι αιγίνης
I started writing letters to people, telling them things that I would never have the courage to say in real life. These letters will obviously never reach their recipients but it’s extremely therapeutic.
what would happen if pop culture were to die out…. no more idolizing celebrities, no more influencers to watch, no more fast fashion, no more exploiting factory workers, no more diet teas and supplements, no more surgical body modifications, no more waist trainers, no more face fillers, and no more upholding european features as the epitome of beauty. what would happen if you returned to how you were in your youth? the person you were before you were told who you ‘should’ be? there’s no audience to perform for; you return to yourself
