#on the body

[millionsknives]

i do not inhabit my body i am my body, i am not a brain in a meat suit i am wonderful flesh and bone and veins and synapses and cartilage, my soul is not separate from my body they are one and the same and they are me, and if god did not care about the body he would not have promised to resurrect it

[newvision]

— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

[kaptenorgazmo]

her body and other parties, Carmen Maria Machado

Painting by Aleksandra Waliszewska

Closer, Dennis Cooper

Sunburns, thomas mailaender

Anatomy, Kitty horrorshow

[thismustbeso]

Relative Fiction, Julien Baker

[kitchen-light]

and sleep will not come. Who sleeps my sleep who won’t come to me. Other’s sleep is sleep’s peace and my sleep is sleep’s death and other’s sleep is sleep’s dream and my sleep is sleep’s reality and my sleep for my sake cried and cried where did it go.

Oh Kyu-won, from his poem ‘When Other People Are Writing Poems’, translated from Korean by Jack Jung, published at Four Way Review, Issue 25, Translation 

[stargir1z]

Becoming Woman: Or Sexual Difference Revisited by Rosi Braidotti

[satin-carmin]

Does a body worry if you keep it inside ? Does it feel home? Can a body survive ? Will you take it to the cellar, the bones and the tether, Lay the bones of the dog and the body together ?

Cricket Blue, Alicia from the store

[voicedwords]

Parabola Is the Most Beautiful Word in the English Language, Sirianna Helleloid

[hungryfictions]

Franz Kafka’s Diaries, 1910

[poemtrans]

— “actually, i rather like myself scarred, thank you very much!” by @poemtrans

[karlovycross]

Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊

[millionsknives]

romans 7:24 / i sing the body electric by walt whitman / 鋼の錬金術師 by hiromu arakawa / i was me by imagine dragons / creep by radiohead / isaiah 45:23 by the mountain goats / 鋼の錬金術師 / the dream thieves by maggie stiefvater / hebrews 11:40 by the mountain goats / soul meets body by death cab for cutie / 鋼の錬金術師 / the means by calecreda / against pollution by the mountain goats / see you again by the gray havens / 鋼の錬金術師 / i sing the body electric / back in my body by maggie rogers

[newvision]

— Ella Baxter, from New Animal

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[thismustbeso]

The River, Mary Oliver