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"dead doesn't mean absent...", tathev simonyan

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fatima aamer bilal, from we were put on this earth desperate, hungry and willing.

[text id: you get nervous when someone holds your hand, you wonder if they can feel the rot.]

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— from Little Weirds, Jenny Slate

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Oliver Baez Bendorf, “Everything All at Once”

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Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass

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The Swan, Mary Oliver

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garlic and onion and tomato and basil and olives and olive oil and fresh bread and pasta and wine my beloveds…

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Paris lesbian club, 1934

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it is sad to me how our hands are growing idle, losing the tangible intimacy of beloved objects...something about the way touch deepens connection; the soft rustling of pages, the familiar click of a VHS slotting in, the crisp snap of opening the dvd case — the small, tactile rituals that once made love and memory tangible are slowly fading into intangible echoes. there was a kind of reverence in the way we handled tapes and DVDs, how mindful we were of fingerprints, scratches, and dust. to lend a favorite VHS or cassette was an act of trust —Here. This is a piece of me. Take care of it.

now, everything is becoming instant, weightless, intangible, impersonal, and the saddest part is that by losing the delicate act of handling what we love, we also lose the proof that we ever held it at all.

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Safia Elhillo, “Orpheus” from Girls That Never Die: Poems

text ID: And all I know about Eurydice is that she died. My every other fact about her is about him

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Morning Glory Pendant-Brooch

Marcus & Co., American

1900’s

The petals and leaves applied with various colors of plique-à-jour enamel, the branches applied with translucent green enamel.

Art Nouveau

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Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931

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Donna tartt wrote these gay guys so well because she did participatory field research asa gay man

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Woven Time (visual illusion), Avag Yepremyan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)