Anchoresses
Anchoresses
i am stupid for free. no one pays me to be this stupid and i think that’s very brave
@normal-horoscopesNORMALIZE the thing that looks like an old man living in your basement
DESTIGMATIZE the act of closing your vent to stop his dry whispering– which you cannot tell whether it is random or directed at you– from reaching you
ROMANTICIZE the idea of counting the number of stairs he climbs each night and praying he never makes it to the top
GUYS THIS IS SO IMPORTANT
we HAVE to let people know its okay to experience:
- being repulsed by the putrid smell of his bile
- feeling sick when seeing your grandparents because of the thing in your basement
- locking your bedroom door even though you know it wouldnt be enough to stop him
- letting your faucets run for a few seconds every morning because ever since he arrived more and more of your tap water had come out black as ink
- knowing exactly what he looks like even though the only time you ever saw him was your first encounter with him at your uncle’s funeral when you were 6
- questioning why youre the only one who remembers your dog
- why cant anyone else remember your dog
- what happened to your dog
- oh my god i can still hear him whimpering downstairs some nights
- i dont know if its actually him or just that thing taunting me
Untitled (House on a Hill), 1917 - Charles Burchfield (1893–1967)
watercolor and pencil | source:
you: perfect teeth, perfectly pressed cdg ensemble, drinking 9 glasses of water a day drawn from a secret spring
me: no teeth, trying to sing an old english music hall ballad but failing bc i have no teeth, pissing toxic waste bc all i drink is water ive accidentally swallowed while trying to drown myself in the thames, dressed in rags bc im a poor cockney newspaper boy from 1934
patchworkquiltedbutterflychair:
Andrea & Nicoletta Branzi, Furniture for the Maggia Valley (early 20th c.)
from Domestic Animals (pub. 1987)
Crouching mouse holding a Papposeilenos mask. Grip of a circular bronze lamp lid, 1st century C.E. Probably made in Italy; said to have been found in Konya province, Central Anatolia, Turkey. Photo © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Papposilenus is a stock character in satyr plays. He is the oldest, wisest, and most drunken of the followers of Dionysus, and was the young god’s teacher.