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Ram ● ♈Aries Sun, ♓Pisces Moon, ♐Ascendant Leo ● Languages and Literature • Martial Arts ● Queer ● Bookaholic ● Introvert ● Daydreamer ● Hobbyist Artist and Writer ● in my late twenties ● { Avatar by @nuclearfusiondojo } They / Them

[thecollectibles]

“Cursed Relics” – Inktober 2021 by Tanya R

[mikelogan]

THE SUBSTANCE (2024) dir. Coralie Fargeat

[clawmarks]

Die Hummeln Steiermarks : Lebensgeschichte und Beschreibung derselben - Dr. Eduard Hoffer - 1882-1883 - via e-rara

[clawmarks]

Bookplate - Hans Frank - c.1918-1921 - via The British Museum

[mewvore]

Sometimes you need to read something twice to get it. You might need to watch a movie three times to understand it. You might have to have that album on repeat for a week until the lyrics make any sense. You're allowed to engage with it and can keep engaging with it until it means something to you. People will see a painting at a museum and laugh about not getting what the big deal is but like you can come back, you can see it at another time, and maybe that next time it'll be different for you. I'm of the belief the "media literacy crisis" would solve itself if more people just sat down and did it again. Watched, read, played, listened, etc like I don't think people are getting more ignorant necessarily I just think we're not glorifying personally replaying things nearly as much as we should be.

[sistertaxon]

Incidentally, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation. When we look at a painting we do no have to move our eyes in a special way even if, as in a book, the picture contains elements of depth and development. The element of time does not really enter in a first contact with a painting. In reading a book, we must have time to acquaint ourselves with it. We have no physical organ (as we have the eye in regard to a painting) that takes in the whole picture and can enjoy its details. But at a second, or third, or fourth reading we do, in a sense, behave towards a book as we do towards a painting.

- Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

[thecollectibles]

Sketching & Inking - Various stories by Hue Teo

[thecollectibles]

Art by jeed 지드

[atomic-fairy-deactivated2022120]

wlw witch moodboard requested by anon

(Hope you guys had a great halloween)

[loish]

Another value study ~ As someone who loves painting with color, it’s actually so freeing to just work in greyscale sometimes 🤍🩶

[thecollectibles]

Art by Frank Chen(卷毛在赶稿)

[thecollectibles]

Art by HeNN

[lena-point]

and they were mad scientist buddies who saved each other’s little brothers through ethically dubious means <3

[untamedheritageposts]

Untamed Heritage Post

[bornfreak]

“The pace of events, as I see it, is no more than the pace of a chaos on which strict limitations have been imposed. […] The chaos lies all within.”

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, The Mimic Men

[micahulrichdraws]

LAST CHANCE WEEKEND DEAL - “MEANS OF PRODUCTION” and “THE HORNED KNIGHT”. More details at the link in my bio.

[heathcliffswindow]

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Kate Bush- December will be magic again

[seravph]

being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

[seravph]

what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made

[autoenucleate]

“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”

— Quote by Leslie Feinberg, from TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.

[mirandahamilton]

anonymous requested: please do a gif set of charlotte’s black dress in harlots