to confront the familiar

Mystic clown // I write and I roam // san francisco

[existential-celestial]

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”

— East of Eden, John Steinbeck

[confrontthefamiliar]

Full moon Capricorn

Awakening

Creative sexual

8 degrees Capricorn

Once you’ve conquered you can see what you were up against

But not until after you’re through it

Then you look back at Goliath on the ground

And laugh

[confrontthefamiliar]

[thepersonalquotes]

“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”

— Emmanuel Swedenborg

[majestativa]

It is the more inward elements of a person, after all, that receive heaven; his outer elements receive the world. So an individual is inwardly a heaven in least form, a reflection of the greatest heaven, so far as his more inward elements do receive heaven.

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG — Heaven & Hell, cited in A Dark Muse: A History of the Occult [Ed. Gary Lashman], (2004)

[nemfrog]

“Charles the First.” “The extra early strawberry that grows large crops of big fine berries.” Wonderful strawberries. 1918 : progressive & superb / A.R. Weston & Company. 1918.

Wonderful Wednesday

[confrontthefamiliar]

In enlarging paradise,

Lives a life that never dies.

When ye come where I have stepped

Ye will wonder why ye wept;

[neckkiss]

The Edukators (2004)

[confrontthefamiliar]

Andrzej Zulawski's That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)

[nobrashfestivity]

Loie Fuller, early 1900′s

[rosenkranz-does-things]

the importance of having yuri in an Oscar Wilde play

[vicariouscarcrash]

Look textually Idk where it would be, but it is very sweet

[rosenkranz-does-things]

does it have to be textually there? it was in this production and it was awesome

[theroseandthebeast]

Tom Stoppard:

[confrontthefamiliar]

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

[slowtraincumming]

Idk what to say because I don't know how to talk about my interests anymore hi 👋 look at edward

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Playwright Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) poses with his cat in a portrait by Philippe Halsman, 1961.

[confrontthefamiliar]

He wrote the three act play The Man Who Had Three Arms (1983) which was received negatively with Frank Rich of The New York Times writing, "isn't a play - it's a temper tantrum in two acts... One of the more shocking lapses of Mr. Albee's writing is that he makes almost no attempt even to pretend that Himself is anything other than a maudlin stand-in for himself, with the disappearing arm representing an atrophied talent."[27]

[omgthatdress]

Mata Hari was the stage name of Dutch dancer Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod. Married to an army officer at 18, she spent several years living in Java, Indonesia. Her husband was an abusive alcoholic, and so in 1903, she gained a divorce, and moved to Paris.

There she became the mistress of a millionaire industrialist , and set out to make a career dancing on stage. She created an erotic act based on her time in Indonesia, claiming to be a Hindu priestess trained in the art of sacred dance.

She would slowly strip away garments until she was wearing nothing but a jeweled top, a headdress, and some bracelets. She imitated nudity by wearing a flesh-colored body stocking.

Because of her olive-tinted complexion and dark coloring, Europeans gobbled her up as an authentic bit of the east, and she became a sensation. She acted as courtesan to a number of wealthy high society men, who kept her living the high life.

However, the act's novelty slowly wore off, and she struggled to gain attention doing things other than her sexy dance.

By the start of World War I, she was getting older, her career was struggling, and her financial situation was no longer what it used to be. When theaters closed in Berlin, she was forced to go back the The Netherlands. In The Hague, she met a young wounded Russian officer by the name of Vadim de Massloff.

Nonetheless, she continued to sleep with men for money, and she eventually became entangled with rumors of espionage. What actually happened is next to impossible to ascertain, all I can really tell is that the Germans, French, AND Russians were all mad at her. She was arrested in Paris, and eventually executed for these allegations.

[noseysilverfox]

May 2026