He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. […] Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I. I will have you in my hoard, Marya Morevna, my black mirror.
Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
Italo Calvino, Il barone rampante
“we are two reflections that cross swords with each other,”
Octavio Paz, Is There No Way Out? (tr. by Eliot Weinberger)
Anna Swir, A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, “The Same Inside,” tr. by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
Tamer, Beautiful Crime
Last night I dreamt about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally somehow you caught fire.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers (tr. by Bernard Frechtman)
Muse, Map of the Problematique
We love shadows of our hidden selves in others.
Anais Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart
Ilyas Abu Shabaka, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, “You or I?”, tr. by Adnan Haydar and Michael Beard
cpunkhobie2:
shoutout to everyone with forget disorders (adhd, DID/osdd, ptsd/c-ptsd, asd, dementia/alzeheimers, schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders, major depressive, chronically ill/phys disabled people with brain fog, people with long-Covid, natural memory degradation, and etc.)
random-brushstrokes:
Francesco Hayez - The Revenge Triptych: Consiglio alla vendetta (1851) - Accusa segreta (1847–1848), La vendetta di una rivale (1853)
stuckinapril:
i post for people who feel like they’re inherently unlikable to others without being able to tell what the reason is
billy-crudup:
THE LAST OF US (2023)
SEASON 1 EPISODES
nipuni:
A strange new world
A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on september 1st 😊
alcorian:
disability rights involves the right to do fuck all. the right to be a useless member of society and STILL be loved and cared for and have a fair standard of living. human beings are not defined by the capital we produce.
spidertams:
Finding a new favorite fictional character is like, will you be temporary or will you become a permanent part of my personality for the next 10 years?
molkolsdal:
The white domes of Chitral Mosque point upward to the 25,289’ summit of Tirich Mir, the highest mountain in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush Range, some 50 miles in the distance.
Ric Ergenbright