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Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

If you still believe amber you're just fucking dumb. Her little text messages don't mean shit when there's audio where johnny talks about her getting physical.

She wanted to control him and gaslight him every Chance she got.

Call her what she is. An abusive and manipulative women

"Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not."

-Donna Tartt; The Secret History

more than 1,000 russians were arrested in protests in 44 cities over the last six hours. some well-known activists were preemptively arrested as they left their house; others were arrested as soon as they unfurled placards. by the looks of it, there were large protests in st. petersburg. over 100 local government officials signed a letter opposing war, and over 170 journalists and intellectual figures signed a similar letter. this is a promising sign, but it’s feeble. as war drags on, protests will grow.

russian civil society is battered and demoralized; its most prominent figures have either been murdered or jailed. i predict that russia will become “totalitarianized” in the coming weeks, with full control over the internet and social media. it isn’t clear how extensive this will be, or how quickly it will happen. already, moscow’s largest theater announced that anyone disrupting the performances to say anything about the war will be arrested for treason. this has severe ramifications for what the postwar occupation of ukraine will look like

versailles

𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟻, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟻 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

Fat Art, Thin Art, ‘Performative (San Francisco)’ by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

[ID: What I would be when I grew up, / I never wondered that (maybe I knew that); / I wondered other things: if I’d be / sane. Loved.]

Instagram: ichmiles

Quinta da Regaleira, Portugal, photo by ku.ta.ur

University of Cambridge.

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman.”

— William Shakespeare, from ‘King Lear’

Reading is an art in and of itself. How you read. What you read. If you take notes as you read.

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Ireland, Christmas morning.

“A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.”

— The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catherynne M. Valente  (via bookphile)

It's an art form, I like to think, me losing myself and others perceiving it as insanity.

Nikolai Gogol, from a fic I'll never write.

When Edgar Allan Poe said, "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity," and, "There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."

Grief Lessons, Anne Carson

Fernando Pessoa // Franz Kafka

“I will accept any amount of monsters my mind wants to give me, but I will not become a monster myself.”

- Marissa Meyer, Stars Above

Natalie Diaz, “Manhattan Is a Lenape Word.” Postcolonial Love Poem

The difference between people is simple. Some see Medusa as the monster, others see Poseidon. Some see the Minotaur as the monster, others see Minos. It depends on who is telling the myth, and who is listening. Some prefer the obvious, others know the insidious speaks louder than most things.

~ Nikita Gill, Excerpts from Maidens, Myths and Monsters

Anne Carson, from “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry.”

The Secret History, Donna Tartt // Vicious, V. B. Schwab