the blurriness of being alive
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"I hope it's love. I'm trying really hard to make it love"
– Richard Siken, Self Portrait against Red Wallpaper
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People love to hate themselves, avoiding the necessary recalibrations. Shame comes from vanity. Shame means you’re guilty, like the rest of us, but you think you’re better than we are. Maybe you are.
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“Close the blinds and kill the birds, I surrender my desire for a logical culmination. I surrender my desire to be healed. The blurriness of being alive.”
Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper by Richard Siken
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"i hope it's love. i'm trying really hard to make it love."
Richard Siken, Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper
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surrender
[ID: art showing pale red paint that has bloomed and bled across the page. Written around it is hand-written text reading “I surrender my desire to be healed. - Richard Siken.” End ID.]
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self-portrait against red wallpaper by Richard Siken
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Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper, Richard Siken
[ Text ID: You want to solve something? Get out of your own way. ]
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day 3 and 4: flowers, paranoia
text from richard siken war of the foxes self-portrait against red wallpaper
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good luck, babe! - chappell roan / self portrait against red wallpaper - richard siken / all too well (10 minute version) - taylor swift
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“You don’t find it, son. You make it.”
9-1-1 6x07, 7x05, 2x04, 5x06, 3x06
Richard Siken, Self Portrait Against Red Wallpaper
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I hope it’s love. I’m trying really hard to make it love
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“Don't try to make a stronger wind, you'll wear yourself out. Build a better sail. You want to solve something? Get out of your own way. What's the difference between me and the world? Compartmentalization.”
Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper by Richard Siken
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fetch the bolt cutters, fiona apple / carlyle's house and other sketches, virginia woolf / rabid, nicole dollanganger / louceph / succession / these violent delights, micah nemerever / i know you're not the one I'm looking for but i am so cold and a fire is a fire, ana kennedy / codependency, oral gartland / bloodsport, yves olade / unknown / finalgirldeanwinchester / the place where he inserted the blade, black country new road / capacity / my beautiful girlfriend who is reading this / flesh-hierarchy / vulnerability, aj / purpleyearning / fault lines, the mountain goats / needleteetles / codependency, oral gartland / more and more, margaret atwood / werewolf, fiona apple / succession / self-portrait against red wallpaper by richard siken / bridgersart / richard siken / fetch the bolt cutters, fiona apple
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