whenyoucantsleepatnite

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Commission for Michael for his wife for Christmas, to match with a commission from earlier this year.

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bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

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Empress Yamatohime, transl. by Kenneth Rexroth, from Written on The Sky; Poems from the Japanese

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unknown sacred heart

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i wish you kinder, softer days that put your heart at ease

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Whimsical interior

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get a load of this! (cool fresh autumn air)

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― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (translated by George Reavy)

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Glassy Orb; {Credit}

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Sylvia Plath in a letter to her mother, 1956

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