[blasteffect]

Saturn by JWST

[lacetulle]

Kim Kassas | Fairest of Them All

[academic-vampire]

𝔣𝔢𝔢𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔬𝔣 𝔞 𝔤𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔱

[catchymemes]

[marseesthisway]

onward and upward

[matchafigs]

bedside

[incandescent-creativity]

Do you ever write a sentence and then realize “Nah, that’s too self aware for you” and backspace a bunch of times.

[incandescent-creativity]

[persephoning]

The funniest part of having a hot monster in any Frankenstein adaptation is that basically means that Victor did that on purpose. Plenty of corpse bits out there, but this dweeb went no! He must have good bone structure! A nice arse!

[dathen]

This is less a funny fact and more something the original audience would understand innately: that physiognomy connected goodness (and evil) to physical traits, so in designing a new being, Victor was doing his best to make a good being by making him beautiful.

This was socially pervasive and not unique to Victor. You ever read a Sherlock Holmes story and note how often people are described with “cruel mouths” or “spiritual hands” or “intelligent foreheads”? Or just why literature often goes into such detail in general describing someone’s features and proportions? It’s conveying characteristics about the person for the reader to assume from physical characteristics. Many of these characteristics were measured for “criminal aptitude”—there’s a TON of ugly, racist history you can dig into behind that.

It also hasn’t gone anywhere despite being more subtle: just look at all the “people who aren’t problematic age well!” nonsense that’s so popular, or even “the monster is hot actually” reading. People see attractive people and assume they’re good, or people read a character as a good person and assume they’re attractive.

[tenderlypressed]

[nixscriptum]

[nixscriptum]

less of a poem, more of a reminder. ( ఌ )

[visitheworld]

Old bridge and castle in Merano / Italy (by Alexander Konstantinov).

[alisaineurope]

South Tyrol

[wanna-buy-some-lettuce-kid]

'the mortifying ordeal of being known' what about the comforting joy of being understood

[elucubrare]

it's a shame that the phrase memed in isolation, because that is the point of the original essay. here's the final paragraph:

Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.

the whole essay is worth reading & is really lovely.

[talonabraxas]

Full moon at the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio, Greece

[weltenwellen]

Devin Kelly, from “All That Wanting, Right?”

[girlrustcohle]

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

[earthangeal]

A mural of a forest in the South Bronx, New York. Captured by Thomas Hoepker, 1983

Mural Art by Alan Sonfist, 1978. The building still exists, however the mural is no longer there