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The Paris ballet company inside The Hermitage, St Petersburg by Mark Olich, 1974 - via x

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texts

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for further reading on why it's not funny but actually pretty heartbreaking to treat seemingly 'queer-adjacent' people or people you perceive queerness in but they haven't stated it Explicitly so you assume they're straight or cis or whatever this medium article by a trans woman who decided she was never going to come out is incredible and heart-wrenching.

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Honestly, people generally don't want much... They want to eat their favorite food. They want to go to the seaside and smell the fresh air. They want to nap on the grass and listen to music. They want to hold their loved ones in their arms, and be held in return. They want warm clothes, be occupied with a profession/a hobby that does not smother them. They want to feel safe and unafraid. Mostly, they want to live without being ridiculed, manipulated or being forced. And this is why capitalism/modern life overall is so upsetting, depressing and even destructive. Because thinking about how small and simple things you yearn for & how hard it is to even be able to have them really wears you off

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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

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'cause i got too much life

running through my veins

going to waste

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'cause i got too much life

running through my veins

going to waste

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de humani corporis fabrica libri septem (on the fabric of the human body) // anatomical illustrations of andreas vesalius (1514-1564)

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Hieu Nguyen, from “Nguyễn”, Not Here

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“I leave the house, I walk the streets, get melancholy, and come home again,”

— Frédéric Chopin, from a letter to Tytus Woyciechowski c. September 1830 (x)

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Scotney Castle in Kent, England. This place is absolutely drenched in magic. (Various, IG)

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i put on the cat ears. I put on the maid dress. I enter the Paris catacombs. I am the thing that chases you

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