Florentine Playing Cards. Francesco Di Domenico, 1547.

qualeasha wood, "bed rot," 2024, woven jacquard, glass seed beads, and machine embroidery

it’s their’s to burn

sharing a cigarette with joan of arc - dante émile ( @orpheuslament ) // photography by brendon burton

fuck baby ur so hot i wanna do the dishes with u and make u hot tea when ur sick

The opposite of anxiety is not calmness, it is desire. Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility of relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. There is nothing mysterious about the anxious state; it leaves one teetering in an untenable and all too familiar isolation. There is rarely desire without some associated anxiety: We seem to be wired to have apprehension about that which we cannot control, so in this way, the two are not really complete opposites. But desire gives one a reason to tolerate anxiety and a willingness to push through it.

Open to Desire

Mark Epstein

*starts taking hostages* STOP EMAILING ME

bringing a gun to Chekhov’s house by Robert Wood Lynn

BONES AND ALL (2022) dir. Luca Guadagnino