progress can look like a lot of things

Anne Sexton, A self-portrait in letters

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

seven burning pear candles, 2015

can't stop thinking about this movie tbh..

Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems; “The Fury of Flowers and Worms,”

You don’t have to belong everywhere!

They are familiar things but I am a stranger now

Times Square, 2010

Sticks and stalks pushed into muddy lake bottom, Andy Goldsworthy, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (1987)

The offices of employees at Squaresoft, from Gamest March 15th,1996 issue.