treatise on the disillusioned

inconsistent themes - unreliable narrator

[academtits]

On this blog I promise but two things:

1) pseudo-philosophical angst

2) titties

[philosophybits]

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”

— Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

[kitsunetsuki-deactivated2026051]

Ellen von Unwerth - Nudes at the Royalton (1992)

[dailyclassicart]

Maxfield Parrish - "Romance" (1922)

[xaoca]

Electrical discharge pattern, 1900 John Matthias Kuehne

[artssie]

Dancers (1896) by Franz Von Stuck

[havingapoemwithyou]

above everything by David Ignatow

[inaloversquarrel]

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[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 2: 1934-1939

[kitsunetsuki-deactivated2026051]

Norman Parkinson - Model Wearing a Dress by Pino Lancetti (Vogue Italia 1978)

[fromtheheather]

Nude from the Back in an Interior (1902) - Félix Vallotton

Kunsthalle Bremen - The Kunstverein in Bremen

[sovietnam]

[kaytario]

«Skinship» by Tadashige Nishida 1942

[history-of-fashion]

1938 A fashion ball organized by the Association of Dramatic Authors at the Hotel Europejski in Warsaw

(National Digital Archives of Poland)

[weltenwellen]

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

[humanoidhistory]

Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1934. Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

(Magnum Photos)

[jaded-mandarin]

Portrait of a Lady, early 18th Century. Detail.