Not A Ghost

Anthony Rafael. Aspiring somebody. Self Actualized Nobody. 31 and back. Reblogging to the void. I am better than I was and I am sorry.

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.” - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

[nemfrog]

“Giant Cactus, Arizona.”  [Photos and postcards from Charmian London’s trip across the country before her marriage to Jack London.] 1900-1910.

Huntington Library

[nemfrog]

Year in review. 2019. April. 

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Enemies captured in war. Nemfrog. 2019.

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[nemfrog]

Year in review. 2019. April.

[nemfrog]

“A composite of transverse body sections made from stereo-photogrammetry.” Anthropometry for Designers. 1978. 

Internet Archive

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Too often, the only escape is sleep.” - Charles Bukowski

[bonethugsnpotpourri]

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lavender

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Louise Bourgeois (French/American, 1911-2010), Untitled, 1997. Ballpoint pen, felt-tip pen and graphite on paper, 30 x 22.5 cm.

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Gertrude Abercrombie, 1946

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Konstantin Vihrov, Russia

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reunited ♥️

[steamed-greens]

In Bed, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

[bunniope]

get that intellectual shit outta here this is DONALD AND DOG (2019)

[between-moses]

Donald and Dog, me, 2019

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?” - Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.” - Paul Auster, Moon Palace

[chromolume]

so imagine you’re making ratatouille and you don’t like tomatoes. you don’t like the taste, the texture, the putting them in the water and the peeling them - eugh! so you say to yourself “lookit, this whole dish is nothing but vegetables, so what does it matter if i leave the tomatoes out?” a seemingly innocuous decision on the surface, but 2 hours or whatever later when you’re done cooking, you open the oven to find a complete mess! just a pot full of baked vegetables, none of them congealed or somehow unified. what happened to your beloved ratatouille? so you take to google and find that actually the tomatoes are an essential ingredient of ratatouille, as they form a “sauce” of a certain kind that makes the whole thing work. and so a seemingly innocent decision has destroyed the very foundation of the established order with disturbing ramifications towards the whole. in this essay i will examine how martin luther’s 95 theses lead to protestants being more boring than catholics

[the-last-punbender]

This is the opposite of a recipe blog

[nemfrog]

French sample book. [Silk ribbons and trims] 1886.

Internet Archive

[iamtypinglike98madmen-deactivat]

with the new round of JK rowling being a transphobic prick rolling out, I think it’s important to reference what I call the H.P. Lovecraft rule. Fans of Lovecraft’s stuff openly acknowledge that he was remarkably racist and that his shitty beliefs bled into his work, whether through metaphors or more blatant pieces of the text, while also enjoying the monster concepts and such that he created. They use critical thinking when approaching his work and acknowledge . In my opinion, it’s fine for people to still like Harry Potter, it’s just important to acknowledge that the Rowling’s own shitty beliefs also bled into her work (the house elves ‘enjoying’ slavery, the sexism, the antisemitism with the goblins, laughable attempt at gay inclusion, lycanthropy being compared to AIDS, etc.). I really don’t think it’s bad for anyone to still enjoy the franchise, it’s just really important to use critical thinking when consuming it, which is true of any media really.

Also I know there are people who are going to drop it all together, and honestly valid, can’t blame ya, it’s just that I saw a post saying ‘you can’t separate it from her beliefs!’ and I just wanted to point out the truth in that while ALSO pointing out that it doesn’t mean people have to quit it altogether - they just need to be smart in their consumption. If someone says something along the lines of, “JK Rowling sucks but the series is still perfect, I’ll just pretend she didn’t write it,” then that’s not critical thinking. That’s just trying to make yourself feel better and pretend there’s nothing wrong with it instead of admitting there are things absolutely wrong with it and that the thing you like is flawed.