After us the Savage God

K., 27 ❁ a perpetually tired academic librarian and cat owner ❁ formerly a Comparative Literature and Literary Theory & French Philology studyblr ❁

[orpheuslament]

is he..... you know..... doomed by the narrative?

[historygirl]

[h-el-l-deactivated20200408]

my plan B for everything is to die before it happens

[essayisms]

It’s autumn now: the best time of year to be drinking black coffee and reading books at my favourite cafe’s. 

ig: rhiharper

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I should be less worried about seeming annoying. plenty of people are annoying and they all seem to be doing fine

[psikonauti]

David Hockney (English ,b. 1937)

Dog no. 12, from Dog Wall, 1998

Etching on Somerset paper

[caffeinatedopossum]

"Do these symptoms interfere with your daily activities?"

Bitch these symptoms ARE my daily activities wym

[joytri]

[thoodleoo]

when he attempts to avoid the tragic fate that has been prophesied to him and in doing so only serves to fulfill it 😩😳🥵

[clawmarks]

The English Illustrated Magazine - 1889-1890 - via Internet Archive

[brunetteg1rl]

“sweet and soft as summer, darlings, maple trees in bloom and grass green in the sunny places—”

peter s. kroyer // willard metcalf // daniel garber // emily dickinson, in a letter to susan gilbert

[minouminouminou]

My favourite female martyr? The girl reading this <3

[peaceinthestorm]

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961, British) ~ Interior with the Artist’s Daughter, 1935 

[Source: philipmould.com]

[valtsv]

me: *puts effort into my appearance before i go out anywhere* *checks myself out in any reflective surface i encounter* *observes myself in the mirror from the perspective of a stranger*

the unavoidable presence of margaret atwood that resides permanently in my consciousness:

[simena]

Michelangelo Maestri -  A bacchanale (detail)

[iphisesque]

can't stop thinking about the theory that dante placed brunetto latini amongst the sodomites because he wrote in a language other than his own. like i fully support wanting to find deeper meaning into a work of art especially if it's the divine fucking comedy. but when dante textually tells you "my teacher had carnal relations with other men" i don't think you really need to dig any deeper to realize what he meant.

[itscolossal]

1,400 Pages of Rembrandt’s Hand Drawings Fill a Wearable Book Bracelet