When it comes to such deep feelings of guilt, nothing will feel like "enough" to atone for your past actions—because it's not a rational feeling, and it's not operating on fair terms. It's not an accurate measure of reality. You're a good person, Salem. Good people mess up, especially under stress.

It's always surreal to see a Tumblr meme break containment six months later.

Fuck 'em. Don't play to the gallery. Make art that makes people scream and cry and vomit—it's your right as an artist. The people who interact with your work on the level of thoughtless consumption don't deserve to be coddled.

She's chasing death. That's the alleyway where Aki and Power are depicted making their exit after they'd both died. Beneath Asa's defiant hope and persistence, she's tempted by the prospect of giving up and finding some kind of relief.

It's from "Fun Home," Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir about her strained relationship with her dad. He was a closeted queer person in that nebulous, sorta-gay-sorta-trans, "inverted soul" way, as it was often conceived of in the 70s and 80s.

Not to get lost in highbrow literary comparisons, but...

Dante Alighieri's Satan broke out of the frozen lake

T4T is magical like that 💖