I was walking into church today with The Boy’s father, slightly fussing that I hadn’t worn something more formal and he tells me “Don’t worry, God sees what’s in your heart”

And I’m like, that’s what I’m worried about

I am the worst

Seeing all of these posts of people introducing themselves to the Theoi makes me realize that I never formally did that…for any of them…Like…I should have…And I didn’t….I just sort of swung by on my skateboard like “HI THERE. I LOVE YOU. PLEASE ACCEPT THIS OFFERING AND SOME PRAISE/PRAYER” or they just suddenly showed up in my life on their own….

From marble

They’ve all been beautiful- in their own way.
Beautiful like peaches
or almonds, or milk.
Like fawns, like birds, like stone.
terrifying and pacifying
Beautiful.

But He,
He is jasmine flowers and converse on cold concrete,
cherubs and soldiers of God
He is black marble and molten gold
A lion, my wolf.

He, elusive in the dark, beside me ephemeral
He is dark eyes and dark hair and words words words.
My Achilles in every way, the Hypnos to my Eris

Adonis carved from marble, strong straight jaw
Galatea warmed to flesh, curved perfect lips
Made in the image of Eros, My Rome.

He doesn’t know he’s art.

MyPerspectiveTag created by @55595472.

Rules: 
Because even though selfies are real great, I love seeing the
totally mundane snaps that people rarely share. Do you take pics for
reference, that make you laugh, little things to remember? 
If tagged,
post the last 10 non-selfies in your phone and explain why you took the
picture. Let us see the world from your point of view. You can totally
cheat, within reason. Don’t go back months and months, but you don’t
have to post 10 from the same session.
Just remember mundane snaps are
ok! The goal is to show the random pictures you take more for yourself
than for others so we can get to know you better!

1. I dunno why I took this….I was kind of simmering in thoughts about senior year and thought “What’s my life like right now?” so I snapped it. My little undecorated living room with my bear on the coffee table. Mine. All mine.

2. A picture of my mouse for documentation before going into the kiln. I hate putting my pieces in the kiln for bisquing because you never know if they’ll come back in one piece.

3. A snapchat of my Italian homework that I sent to the girls because it took three glasses of wine to get me through the translation.

4. More documentation before the bisque firing, this time my crow and my bear. They’re part of my senior show/portfolio; a series of animals corresponding to emotions I’m feeling over senior year. A mouse for fear, a rabbit for sadness, a crow for anxiety, and a bear for rage.

5. Stamped holiday notecards for The Boy’s parents, as part of a hostess gift for letting me stay over the thanksgiving holiday

6. This little skull thing used to be on a rubber band but it ripped my hair out, so I put it on a clip instead and it makes me feel very cute

7. LOOK AT WHAT THE BOY BOUGHT ME. The poster guy who comes around every year was here and selling these and I told The Boy that I really liked this one and that night he pulls it out of his closet like “Tada!”

8. I was waiting by my tree next to the church waiting for The Boy to come out between masses and they’d set up these fairy lights that I really liked

9. I made pizza and ran out of sauce and cheese, so you could say that the other half was meant to be focaccia. I gave some to The Boy and he inhaled it.

10. A little snippet of paper I took from a flyer. The frozen yogurt/local boba place is now doing discount mondays!

Only if they want to do it of course, I tag @vikingofstarlight​ and @fireflythief

Tess fucks up, post 329

thecarvingwitch:

Be making sugar scrub

Forget that the container you’re using is currently filled with the warm water you used to melt the coconut oil

Dump half a cup of sugar into the container

Realize what you’ve done

Stare in defeat at the sugar water you’ve just created

PART TWO:

Stir sugar scrub with wooden spoon

Reflexively lick spoon when you’re done because you’ve been baking so much lately

Realize that there was (a very small amount of) pennyroyal oil in it

Blanch

Call poison control