much ado about nothing

just a girl | mel | 19 |

[blairwitchh]

sitting around wasting my 20s while thinking about how i sat around and wasted my teens

[bellafleurz]

[neenarchive]

they just don't put gargoyles on roofs like they used to. buildings are so swagless these days

[delioncunt]

violet was so fucking funny for this

[vjeranski]

interior, Model Reading 

Edward Hopper 1925

[dipolos]

L'amica geniale (My Brilliant Friend) (2018)

[geryone]

Selected Books of the Beloved, Gregory Orr

[afeelgoodblog]

I found this picture a while ago. Idk why but it just fills me up with joy. The dog is so happy

[angelicguy]

“idk why” its an adorable chubby dog with little marshmallow feet. looks like its gonna give me a quest. looks like its gonna bless my village. looks like i summon it and it heals me in turn based combat. “idk why” what the fuck is wrong with you

[postnuclearophelia]

need

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.

[yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20]

it's not anti-intellectualism it's anti-snobbery

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Let me ask you this: how many “snobs” have you actually met? Because I have met many people who take interest in art history, watch vintage film or films from films from outside the US (which by the way are not all “arthouse” films), or read and cherish historically and culturally significant literature. But I have never met anyone who will treat me like I’m a bad person for watching Mama Mia or just wanting to be entertained once in a while. I have, however, met people who think art history is stupid and pointless and that those who study it deserve to live in poverty, who are xenophobic and dismissive toward any art made outside the US (or western Europe for that matter), or roll their eyes at people who read literature they consider boring because they’ve never given it a try. In fact, most of the people I know who you would consider “snobs” out of projected insecurity are cautious to bring up their interests because they think they’ll be made fun of. Is anti intellectualism “anti elitist?” At times, but it’s the sort of pseudo populism that fits comfortably within contemporary right wing discourse. Have you paid any attention to politics the last decade or so? If you are allergic to culture and new information, fine. Just don’t claim the moral high ground for it.

[sovietpostcards]

Gorky Street and the view of the Historical Museum (Moscow, 1964)

[fairyinjeans]

“Her face radiated something of the last century’s romantic glow,”

— Sándor Márai, tr. by George Szirtes, from “Esther’s Inheritance,” c. 1939 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[bugblast]

santa deniers on science-mas eve hearing charles darwin evolving down the chimney

[100493503004422]

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

[6thlovelanguage-deactivated2020]

dark green is a nice color. underrated

[besarelcielo]

age 20-25 is like i am a baby i am a grown woman i am but a small girl i am the oldest and wisest woman alive i just began to exist i am but an embryo

[i432hz]

i'm overdue for some romantic shit