#on the body

[newvision]

— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

[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

[kaptenorgazmo]

her body and other parties, Carmen Maria Machado

Painting by Aleksandra Waliszewska

Closer, Dennis Cooper

Sunburns, thomas mailaender

Anatomy, Kitty horrorshow

[kitchen-light]

Allowing our hearts to crack, is an insistence on remaining open, remaining human. It forms a pathway of return to the hearts of our mothers, our brothers and children of Palestine. The tenderness of grief allows us to humanise and hold the contradictions of this moment.

Sanah Ahsan, from her essay "Allowing Our Hearts To Break: Poetry, Our Embodied Method of Resistance", published in Too Little / Too Hard, Issue 2 Winter 2023

[respirelejasmin]

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

[almyranpine]

really good tiktok

Transcript:

Girl, just do it fat. Don’t wait until you’ve lost enough weight. You’re worthy of taking up the space that you fill. Live your life now. Don’t wait for some future version of yourself that you think will be more deserving. You have every right to pursue your passions and dreams just as you are today. Your worth isn’t tied to a number on a scale or the size of your clothes; it is inherent in who you are. You’re allowed to be seen, heard, and celebrated in whatever body you inhabit right now. Don’t let anyone or anything convince you for too long. So go out. Do it fat! Wear the clothes you love, pursue the opportunities that excite you, and live unapologetically. There’s no reason to put off living the life that you want, waiting for a moment that you’re not even sure will come. You deserve to be happy and fulfilled just as you are, and the world needs you exactly as you are today. Everything good that has ever happened to you, happened in this body. Girl, just do it fat.

[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.

[newvision]

— Ella Baxter, from New Animal

[sweetiefoxxxxx]

My Onlyfanz Page

[thismustbeso]

The River, Mary Oliver

[karlovycross]

Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊

[kitchen-light]

Cynthia Cruz, published in The Yale Review, April 5, 2023