hubris

divina ･ xvi ･ we thought the same thoughts of the soul, bleak and blue and sad-eyed

[suhaylah]

Weeping Tree and Lion Tails (2021) oil pastel studies on paper shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com instagram: @suhaylah.h

[gaminegay]

People go on about good healthy queer rep but I cannot express how much I want unhealthily devoted queer rep. Raise your lover from the dead no matter the cost. Kill to get them to safety. Trade your soul for theirs. Die to reunite with them. I want gothic hyper-devotion codependent lovers

[unknowableadammm]

Running on air [ - eleventy7 ] aesthetic :)

[juliettecai]

MAKE ME CHOOSE. @halscavendish asked: tsoa or vicious?

these words people threw around—humans, monsters, heroes, villains—to victor it was all just a matter of semantics.

[the2headedcalf-archive]

and of course i've been thinking about tragedy and how you can say "there was a way both rose and jack could have survived", "there was a way for achilles to save patroclus and himself from their fate", "there was a way for orpheus and eurydice to both get out of the underworld", "if only they had done this", "if only they had thouht of this" but in the end the people involved are not gods, they are stirred by their emotions and preconceptions and the limits of their knowledge and their fears and ambitions, and in good tragedies i think there's always a way out that is completely plausible and even easy to find but the humanity of the characters drives them to mistakes that ultimately add up to the most heartbreaking conclusion you can imagine. and i think that's beautiful.

[finelythreadedsky]

i really love that line οὐ μὲν γάρ τοι ἔτ᾽ ἄλλος ἐλεύσεται ἐνθάδ᾽ Ὀδυσσεύς, "no other odysseus will ever come to you," because he's saying not that he is the true odysseus but that there is no truer odysseus alive on the earth. he doesn't say, 'i am the real odysseus.' he says, 'i'm the realest odysseus you're going to get.'

[finelythreadedsky]

there was an odysseus before there was a war

but who remembers him?

[filmnoirsbian]

Oh, yes, without us perhaps the sky would be more blue. The ocean as clear and deep as a mirror. Perhaps not so many lives would have ended before their time. Less smog thick in the world's throat like phlegm keeping you awake. Less oil as ink poisoning in the planet’s blue blood. But without us, there would also be no bread, fresh from the oven. No melodies hummed just under the breath. No magenta, created just for our eyes. No dogs as we know them, these eager valentines. No telescopes piercing the veil of stars. No stories told around campfires. Told over and over again, each time a little different, a little more ours. Consider this my love letter to humanity: Yes, some of us do terrible things. But some of us bake bread and write poetry about the hands of our lovers. When I take my mother's old dog with his bad hips for a walk across the wheat fields. Standing among the weeds which, with a little help, will become something not better, but new. With each step, he turns his body to look back at me, waiting for me to catch up. And I know, if tomorrow we were to be gone from this world

We would be missed.

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Memory is not any one person’s task, memory is something we build together. The reason for this is because memory is a burden.”

— Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, from “Notes on Returning to San Francisco Twenty-Five Years Later,” Apogee (no. 7)

[celebrityskinmp3]

yeah the us has a 2 party system its called team edward vs team jacob

[peitalo]

obsessed with saying “both. love wins” when asked to make a decision between two things…it is not functional and nothing is solved but u know what? love won. what else matters truly

[maybuds]

meaning and miracle of the ordinary day

hugo grenville 1, 6, 8 / pierre bonnard 3, 5, 7 / gueorgui pinkhassov 2, 4, 9 / ursula k. le guin’s daily routine

[verypowerfulwitch]

my entire political stance basically boils down to "I care about other people" and MAN does it make people MAD

[curatedmusings]

versace fw18

[prncssguya]

2021 is starting a tradition

[handweavers]

white historians will learn about the ancient greeks practicing human sacrifice and agamemnon sacrificing his own daughter iphigenia to please the gods in the iliad and go 'oh how tragic!' but still think the culture and people have value, and then hear about the aztecs engaging in the exact same thing and go 'those are savage cruel subhumans whose culture us foreign and mysterious and scary' and erase mesoamerican societies from human history/ entirely ignore them as though they have no value, like at least keep your supposed ethical stances consistent

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Created using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during it’s flyby of Jupiter and while at Saturn. Shown is Io and Europa over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

[jumex]

Making myself hotter. To cope