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some things are always the same

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deadly love for wounds.

caravaggio // guercino // natalie diaz // maryanne bilham // sierra demulder // jenny holzer.

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Sweet New Style - A Web Weave

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favourite thing in the world is when the pages of a book go all soft and yellowy and the edges are slightly fuzzy and rounded. these books couldn’t give you a papercut if you tried they’ve been loved too much. they love you too much

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"Do you realize, I would have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone?"

Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory

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media that uses cannibalism and vampirism as an allegorical expression of desire, love, and hunger >>>>

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I should be allowed into every museum's archives actually

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when they say “you’re hot” but kafka said “you’re the knife I turn inside myself” like do better

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"am I being annoying" are you aware that my heart is trying to crawl out of my chest to get to you

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what are your thoughts on stab wounds?

sexual in any context

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Art by Lena Rivo

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i love you vampire themed media i love you metaphor for queerness i love you blood aesthetic i love you gothic architecture i love you coffin beds i love you cross necklaces i love you canine teeth i love you intimacy hidden in violence i love you vampires

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fuck i can’t believe i wasted my entire life being moved by art and beauty and the indomitable human spirit ugh i should’ve been making money through internet scams

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oh my god there are so many books to read and instruments to learn and languages to speak and poems to write and oranges to eat and ideologies to study and songs to sing and films to watch and people to kiss and

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how do you love?

Richard Siken, Peter Wever, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ada Limón, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Richard Siken, @maieste, Madeline Miller, Holly Warburton, Shauna Barbosa, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

buy me a coffee

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In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person's soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.

— Donna Tartt