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Rosa | 21 | art conservation student

[girlofdogs]

i like to think that our blogs are just our own little personal museums of all the things we like, and we can visit each other’s museums and leave nice notes at the reception.

[abernathyvalois]

i don’t want a job i want to read good books and drink good coffee and get kissed on the neck

[abernathyvalois]

MAY WE ALL READ GOOD BOOKS AND DRINK GOOD COFFEE AND GET KISSED ON THE NECK THIS YEAR

[richardsikenpdf-archive-deactiv]

my heart is an open wound; that is how the love gets out. that is how the love gets in.

[forthegothicheroine]

I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains.  Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does.  Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be.  Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does.  This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.

[selavy]

as someone who is partially a classicist, this is a better analysis of Greek mythology as a whole than 99.95% of the takes I’ve seen on here (and a substantial number of the takes I’ve seen in ~academia~)

[a-sadnoodle]

I cannot express how much I adore dappled shadows formed by sunlight in paintings and photography and in real life

[femminabalba]

Orphée et Eurydice  (David and Frédèrico Alagna)

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Quotes:Whitney Hanson / jack gilbert}

[irma-writes]

You know that feeling when you finish a good book with characters you felt so connected to, or better yet a whole series and once you finish you feel so empty and you can’t pick up another book right away, and of course by no means will it be as good and interesting and heart gripping as the last one. You have to wait until you stop feeling emotional about it and let it go. i think it’s a bit like the feeling after breaking up but on a smaller scale. You can no longer share life with that person, be it in a book or in reality, and you need some time to get over it. And then you pick up another book and it turns out to be just as good or even better. So hang in there, the next story is going to pull you in just as deep and you won’t feel so empty anymore

[girlrose]

im on tumblr bc im a romantic this energy doesnt exist on any other platform

[naberiie]

WHAT is that one poem (?), abt a modern worker contemplating the numerous forgotten who were actually responsible for all the ‘great’ deeds of history

[naberiie]

found it!!

A Worker Reads History Bertolt Brecht

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone? And Babylon, so many times destroyed. Who built the city up each time? In which of Lima’s houses, That city glittering with gold, lived those who built it? In the evening when the Chinese wall was finished Where did the masons go? Imperial Rome Is full of arcs of triumph. Who reared them up? Over whom Did the Caesars triumph? Byzantium lives in song. Were all her dwellings palaces? And even in Atlantis of the legend The night the seas rushed in, The drowning men still bellowed for their slaves. Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Phillip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who triumphed with him? Each page a victory At whose expense the victory ball? Every ten years a great man, Who paid the piper? So many particulars. So many questions.

[violsva]

So I just went through three notebooks to find this, because I knew it was there.

I was at the ROM, about six years ago, at a special exhibit on Babylon. And there was a brick, formerly part of a palace. And Nebuchadnezzar, the one who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, had had his name in cuneiform stamped on every single brick, to emphasize that he had built it.

And on this one, a workman had carved his own name, Zabina’, into the block too, in Aramaic. Here’s the brick. It’s 2600 years old.

[garlandedspirits]

The Crouching Venus (Lely version) - Doidalses of Bithynia, third century BC //  Combing Her Hair -  Torii Kotondo, 1929

[nemophilies-deactivated20190428]

“Solitude is necessary not only for writing but for love as such. I strongly believe only in love where you can preserve your own solitude. Rainer Maria Rilke has a beautiful definition of such kind of love, when he says that love consists in this: “that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” There is no radical love without solitude.”

— Srećko Horvat, Love and Revolution: an interview

[flowerytale]

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1939

[todosmismiedos]

I love days when it feels easy to find beauty in everything

[ymutate]

Statue of Jesus getting slowly absorbed by tree at old cemetery in Bieszczady mountains, Poland

[flowerytale]

Salvatore Postiglione (1861–1906), Dante and Beatrice (detail)

[wheelie-butch]

when you download a pdf and it's called like 1328723486basdf12.pdf but then you gently rename it to what it's supposed to be. that's forming a bond with a hurt and wild mythological creature and reminding it who it is.