maiden of antioch

[exitwound]

ada limón, the conditional

[anthropoetics]

by james thurber

[earlyaftermath]

nina simone preforming leonard cohens ‘suzanne’ 1969 Rome

so much joy

[gardenofgod]

Tight Quarters, by Stephanie Wallace.

[theinternetarchive]

'irises,' oil on canvas, dimensions: 73.7 x 92.1 cm; vincent van gogh, dutch c. 1890.

[terrorignitis]

Lovesickness in the Middle Ages | Mary Frances Wack

[agnus-dei1312]

Magnificat linocut by Sarah Fuller

[a-fantastic-fox]

see me wan time

ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah

gaed slinkin

heh

an snappin

yeh

the blokes

aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox

aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good

had a whole damn wood in them days

hen

— 'Fox' by lan Hamilton Finlay, published in Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd, with papercuts by John Picking and Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961).

[megairea]

“It’s a good thing to be loved, even late.”

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

[polkadotmotmot]

Christine Hong - Lighter, 2025 - Acrylic, Gouache, and Modeling Paste

[adequately]

fairyclub

[xwezi]

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish reciting his Poem of the Land

[gallowhill]

Tori Wranes - Flash Face (In collaboration with Hanne Kolstø), 2011

[achillesinhighheels]

Saul Leiter, “Moonstruck”, Manhattan, New York, 1957.

[From the series “In My Room”]

[letterful]

[beguines]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy

[the-library-and-step-on-it]

“I know that if women wish to escape the stigma of husband-seeking, they must act and look like marble or clay - cold, expressionless, bloodless; for every appearance of feeling, of joy, sorrow, friendliness, antipathy, admiration, disgust, are alike construed by the world into the attempt to hook a husband. Never mind! well-meaning women have their own consciences to comfort them after all. Do not, therefore, be too much afraid of showing yourself as you are, affectionate and good-heartened; do not too harshly repress sentiments and feelings excellent in themselves, because you fear that some puppy may fancy that you are letting them come out to fascinate him; do not condemn yourself to live only by halves, because if you showed too much animation some pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into his pate to imagine that you designed to dedicate your life to his inanity.”

— Charlotte Brontë writing to a friend who had been kind to a man she thought was married, only to have him fall in love with her because he thought she was flirting (letter dated April 2, 1845).