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Marcel and Nana Connie. 

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bike scene

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my favorite love language is trying, actually

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when I found out my friends have no siblings I always ask isn’t that kind of lonely??? And they are always like idk not really and yeah u can’t miss what you’ve never known I guess but some nights me and my little sister will stay up late even though we both have class tomorrow and we will listen to fast car by Tracy chapman on repeat no talking just us quietly listening and I think that even if I never knew my sister I would still miss her somehow

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Another cat image I had to draw.

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Nina Simone (1933-2003) posed in London in June 1968.

photo: David Redfern/Redferns

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i don't know who needs to hear this, but guilt, self-hatred and shame are not sustainable sources of growth and healing. you can't hate yourself into feeling better, or being better. you can't repeatedly punish yourself for your flawed humanity and expect wholesome results.

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Protagonist rejected.

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thinking of my best friend today

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"Life is one darned thing after another!"

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this email finds me in a field of sunflowers. i don’t give a fuck anymore

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When the stop-motion talking shell movie said: “I’m terrified to risk everything in hopes of something coming of it.”

And when the stop-motion talking shell movie also said: “They’re an audience, but not a community. They can’t help me.”

And then when the stop-motion talking shell movie said: “On that morning after, there was a beautiful sun and breeze, and I realized to someone else this day looked very different.”

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All it means when people say “you’re speaking from a place of privilege” is that you’re likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It’s not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.

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Nina Simone and James Baldwin, early 1960s [«The New Yorker». Photo: New York Public Library, New York, NY]