I’m Sarah. I’m a graphic designer. I live in what I once heard called “the fourth coolest borough in New York City.”TotallySevere.comTumblr (3.0; @totallysevere)http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/59acd55e196eedb05e2a5d37e803e96b/tumblr_mn2u5uPzim1qzbgl3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>more pillows.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/50878940683http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/50878940683Sun, 19 May 2013 20:10:42 -0700totallysevere<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/356b93191bd6c05be07032699515a19c/tumblr_mmv4ty5LVu1qzbgl3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/50532836375http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/50532836375Wed, 15 May 2013 16:20:22 -0700great depression1930sjoblessnessunemployment<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f4e70d176571fdc6890f2e85d75ca842/tumblr_mmaug6V0741qzbgl3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’m going to design and sew pillows. Here’s the first one, next to these sweet bookends I got in the mail today.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/49636216793http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/49636216793Sat, 04 May 2013 17:24:06 -0700pillowbookendsbookshelvesdesignnew york<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ac75c609ec6bfacec89ba2f945b1ed0e/tumblr_mlocgsA0C71qlvwnco1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://logotv.tumblr.com/post/48661282154/reblog-if-you-want-jinkx-monsoon-to-be-americas">logotv</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>REBLOG if you want Jinkx Monsoon to be America’s Next Drag Superstar!</p> </blockquote> <p>i will not rupaulogize for this reblog.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/48819625035http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/48819625035Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:37:23 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2085a0e10b916a2bb7743b02e62e3459/tumblr_mkyti6be9u1qzbgl3o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>love her.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/47506260718http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/47506260718Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:58:54 -0700To Have and Have NotLauren Bacall1944<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/642bd054ffddb2fd2f4107196de3c130/tumblr_mkhx5po8hX1qzbgl3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Curator at Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/46708339433http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/46708339433Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:58:37 -0700curatorlibrarydance<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/873b210028227cacfd722afef4d40adf/tumblr_mjeuyrZSgH1re8nlbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/46301998434http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/46301998434Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:41:32 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a4242f6d0e16e0cea61c165908e54352/tumblr_mjrr8yBu8L1qzbgl3o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I think maybe I’m busting my ass in the financial district in New York City so that years from now I can move to Santa Cruz, live by the ocean, decorate my apartment like an opium den and fulfill my bohemian destiny.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/45521064101http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/45521064101Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:53:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9d2532a5b33ca46a767fa53920f1c7bd/tumblr_mjkxcsX4331qzbgl3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Milk Farm Sign, Dixon California. The restaurant’s gone but the sign still stands.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/45243181466http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/45243181466Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:22:04 -0700dixoncaliforniai80milk farm<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/27557baffb8ad0086deaf7affb27f6f0/tumblr_mjj2h3iVL11qzbgl3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>French stage actress, turn of the century.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/45164148083http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/45164148083Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:17:00 -0700frenchtheateractressantiqueturn of the centuryFin de siècle<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdwqliewDW1qei7a7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/45163859644http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/45163859644Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:13:00 -0700bookshelvesinteriorrustic<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e32c93be8ca3ff955ca9dd73230cf542/tumblr_mj63avsPsK1qzbgl3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>things i used to own.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/44591670982http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/44591670982Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:06:00 -0800trinketskeychainsjewelrytchotchkescollection“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment … all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://If%20one%20wanted%20to%20crush%20and%20destroy%20a%20man%20entirely,%20to%20mete%20out%20to%20him%20the%20most%20terrible%20punishment%20&%20all%20one%20would%20have%20to%20do%20would%20be%20to%20make%20him%20do%20work%20that%20was%20completely%20and%20utterly%20devoid%20of%20usefulness%20and%20meaning.">Dostoyevsky</a>, making an eloquent case for why you should learn to <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/14/how-to-avoid-work/">avoid work</a> and <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/27/purpose-work-love/">find your purpose</a>. (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://exp.lore.com/">explore-blog</a>)</p> <p><br/>THIS.</p></em>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/44028524451http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/44028524451Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:56:06 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/eb013f50a110102b060ed721a976d99b/tumblr_mihz95nSyJ1qzbgl3o1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/769f0734a6625c5b235763e8a4f82e86/tumblr_mihz95nSyJ1qzbgl3o4_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/738257572f8a05777cc24781224d0898/tumblr_mihz95nSyJ1qzbgl3o2_400.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6458a29d6a57a49780090634dc679e07/tumblr_mihz95nSyJ1qzbgl3o6_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ec75ae91dcd6090600beccbc8969e743/tumblr_mihz95nSyJ1qzbgl3o7_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8cac504b9689ceebbfc29bf80e09134f/tumblr_mihz95nSyJ1qzbgl3o5_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c4e8daed212bc379c8706ce78b22321b/tumblr_mihz95nSyJ1qzbgl3o3_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><p>Epic Photoshop fail deleted four days of work. Had to dig into my gif archive for survival.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/43534776124http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/43534776124Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:36:41 -0800failgifouch<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/aaaa9fad420cadbcc1aecfb44d912e8d/tumblr_mig8imRwGN1qzbgl3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>“Both narratives contain substantial truth, both at the same time. This is why Cuba fascinates and makes people’s heads hurt. The place is exhausting in its complexity and paradoxes—Cubans are the first to tell you that—and the questions modern Cuba sets off in a visitor are big, serious, unwieldy. What is the definition of freedom? What do human beings need? What do they owe to each other? What do they want, beyond what they need?”</em></p> <p>It’s been six years now.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/43461116698http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/43461116698Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:01:34 -0800havanacuba<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d8de01d91cde67de2646936c043ee23e/tumblr_mhvr0ijDSL1qzbgl3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“It is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture.”<br/><br/> -Ben Franklin</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/42550489073http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/42550489073Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:31:30 -0800perufashionben franklin<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d435b959fbb61bf337080ea152c7bc2a/tumblr_mgvm1eFklM1qzbgl3o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Bummer.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/40921667822http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/40921667822Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:09:43 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7c0f1ea47cc9e3c5a5927e654409cdf2/tumblr_mgqgd9trMU1qzbgl3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Fallout shelter, Fort Greene, Brooklyn.</p>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/40696559260http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/40696559260Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:19:57 -0800<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://godfrapp.tumblr.com/post/37784786857/does-anyone-else-go-on-wikipedia-to-look-something">godfrapp</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Does anyone else go on Wikipedia to look something up and then click on a bunch of random links and then half an hour later you’re 10 articles deep into the inner workings of Vietnamese politics</p> </blockquote>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/40270811407http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/40270811407Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:43:15 -0800““My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.””<br/><br/> - <em>Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union</em>http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/39787508587http://totallysevere.tumblr.com/post/39787508587Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:20:00 -0800