past is prologue... @ashleynef - Tumblr Blog

Iranian photographer Hossein Fatemi, offers a glimpse of an entirely different side to Iran than the image usually broadcasted by domestic and foreign media. In his photo series An Iranian Journey, many of the photographs reveal an Iran that most people never see, presenting an eye-opening look at the amazing diversity and contrasts that exist in the country.

papenathys

Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

#hamlet

romanceyourdemons

love how ishmael dick is like “okey here’s the story of how whaling killed my wife and trapped me within another man’s madness and stripped bare the bloodthirsty face of god in whose image we all are made and also there was this really hot guy named bulkington and he was doomed too but FIRST THINGS FIRST i heard some people saying whaling sucks. it DOESN’T. whaling is AWESOME”

youareinlove

i saw the casting announcement for wuthering heights (2026) before reading the book, and assumed that heathcliff's miscasting was because the character was subtly not white, or it was mentioned here and there without much relevance to the plot beyond subtext, etc. (which still wouldn't have made it ok btw). but now i'm reading it and every single scene with him in it reads like:

'then appeared heathcliff, who was not white. he not-white-ly entered the room, where everyone else was white, unlike him. "aah! a not white!" they all shouted. he cried. "i wish i were white," he said. "don't worry, maybe your non-white parents were rich in non-white countries," said nelly. he was then called ten slurs, because he was not white, and left.'

like emily bronte literally beats us over the head with it every five seconds. what do you MEAN they cast jacob fucking elordi

#currently doing a reread myself #and I can’t believe we are doing this AGAIN #Emily could not have been clearer #I could gnaw my own hands off over this

filletedfennysnake

if you are ever at a point in life where your body is giving you a Bad Time just imagine lancelot suffering from The Ailments in your stead. this technique has given me far more relief than advil ever could and also enabled me to picture a beautiful man in pain. 10/10, try it sometime. really.

ryebreadgf

something something the poetry of science etc

ryebreadgf

woah

dramaticwriter

yeah

midnightmurdershow

Planet Earth II (2016) Episode 05 “Grasslands” Directed by Chadden Hunter

genderfeel

it’s honestly crazy that like. in theory literary icon jean valjean would do crazy numbers on tumblr, fanfics, etc. he’s a dad. he’s canonically hot and ripped. he has a tragic backstory and self esteem issues. he’s got nuclear levels of catholic guilt. he’s even unmarried so you can old man yaoify him to your heart’s content. man was built in the blorbo factory. but the book he’s in happens to have 20 college age twinks and the musical film based on the book came out in 2012, creating the perfect storm of oncelerfication that defines the fandom at large to this very day. anyway they could never make me shut the fuck up about you jean valjean

therepublicofletters

Decorated pages from the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University

euphorictruths

NOVA (detail)- Piotr Jabłońsk; 1968

redlipstickresurrected

Sergiu Ciochină (Moldovan, b. 2001, Boldurești village, Nisporeni district, Republic of Moldova, based Paris, France) - Sunlit Passage, Paintings: Oil on Board

thefugitivesaint

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

grammarpedant

It is an hundred years hence now. Go open your doors.

nocnitsa

Alphonse Mucha- Sappho

yr-tiktok-mom

#this has been stuck in my head on loop #so now you all must suffer

horrorlesbians

everytime I remember that lesbian couple that have a marble statue of the two of them embracing and sleeping on a bed together over where their graves will be because the artists didn’t believe they would be able to be married before they died, so what they couldn’t have in life they could have in death, I fucking breakdown

horrorlesbians

memorial to a marriage; patricia cronin

horrorlesbians

“on july 24th, 2011- the first day that same sex marriage was legal in new york state, particia cronin and deborah kass got married. that same year the marble ‘memorial to a marriage’ was replaced with a bronze version. rainwater pools in the space between their two sculpted bodies, and falling leaves catch on the metal in the autumn. the two women sleep peacefully through snow and ice, and the scorching days of summer. over time the hands of cemetery visitors will wear down the bronze, burnishing it into a smooth shine. one day this will mark the final resting place of the two women. and someday people will have to remember that there was a time, long ago, when this was a memorial to a marriage that two women never thought they’d have.”

- Caitlin Doughty, on the Death in the Afternoon podcast