A Catalog of Longings

Words, art, random musings sometimes. I dislike humanity but love people.

[fleurduart]

Roger van der Weyden, Deposizione Particolare

[naldibutnice]

The White Moth (1924) Dir. Maurice Tourneur

[sophsicle]

the thing that i love about the iliad. besides. all of it. is that it shows so beautifully that death is not the curse of mortality. grief is. mortals lose so much that they can never get back. you spend your whole life mourning people and places and feelings. mourning time. the gods will have other cities. but you and i will only ever have troy.

[archivedspaces]

This is truth. And beautiful.

[archivedspaces]

Got an alert this morning that someone emailed my university threatening to mass murder people in the building I am about to go into.

This just sucks.

[archivedspaces]

Currently taking an online training for what to do in the case of an active shooter at work. I really hate this world.

[oformat]

[heaveninawildflower]

'Mouse and Top Hat' (1937) by Takeuchi Seihō (1864–1942).

Colour woodcut.

Wikimedia.

[archivedspaces]

This timeline sucks.

[1five1two]

'The Metamorphosis of Daphne'. Trapani, Italy. Coral figure; with gilt-copper mounts; on a later square wood base. 17th century.

[archivedspaces]

This is almost surely the most fucked up foreign policy move I've witnessed in my lifetime.

This country is being run by some dude who gets triggered by twitter posts and who can't even stay awake through a meeting.

[stlamb]

dark cloud, carlos amorales

[amnhnyc]

It’s Fossil Friday! If you’re in the mood to hibernate, get inspired by the cave bear (Ursus speleaus). Although it’s related to the largest living bears of the Arctic, Ursus spelaeus lived only in Europe. Discoveries in the Alps suggest that its habitat extended up to altitudes of 6,300 ft (1,920 m). Most of the tens of thousands of remains found are of young and old animals that died during hibernation. Skull accumulations and depictions in cave paintings show that this species, which disappeared more than 14,000 years ago, was important to Ice Age humans.

Photo: D.Finnin / © AMNH

[archivedspaces]

Real life photo of me entering 2026.

[mother-lee]

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Sunday, December 19th, 1920

"I shall like a soft grey walk."

~ Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 2 (1920-1924), ed. Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (1978)

[prettylittleproblem]

Suarez. Two Trees in Andalusia, 1977. Oil on board.

[archivedspaces]

Lorde, 2025. Amazing.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Gustave Jean Jacquet, Portrait of a Woman Wearing Pearls (before 1889)

via christie's