me and the emo boy i pulled in my delusions solely thru one-sided pining

I can't stop crying where are we supposed to go.

This photo has haunted me since I first saw it as a kid. The man is Nsala—he missed the Belgian authorities’ daily rubber quota. His 5yo daughter was cannibalized as punishment. The almost tranquil image, full of suffocating horror, was one of my earliest glimpses of colonialism.