beautiful mess

Moana . 29 . Classics PhD.

[soracities]

Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch (trans. Gregory Rabassa)

[Text ID: “As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.”]

[seekingstars]

HOW’S THAT HOUSE THAT RAISED YOU? - Lev St. Valentine

[huariqueje]

Unknown, Green Bathroom - Line Holtegaard , 2024.

Danish , b, 1980 -

Oil on canvas , 150 x 100 cm.

[firstfullmoon]

https://www.instagram.com/subwayhands/

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[caemidraws]

Raven Queen

[brainstatic]

Dante’s Inferno is the best piece of classical poetry because it’s the most petty thing you will ever read. Half of Hell is mythological or historical figures and the other half is Dante’s enemies. So the whole thing is like “I am Medea, who slew her own child to spite her husband.” “And I am Francisco di Vincezzino Fabriccia, who gets very talented and handsome poets kicked out of Florence, but I’m very sorry for it now because I’m burning in Hell and I suck.”

[brainstatic]

I feel I should add that because it was the Middle Ages and literacy was next to non-existent, poets made their money by reciting their poems in public. And The Divine Comedy is written in the first person. So the way this was originally presented was Dante himself standing on a stage and saying “so then me and my best friend Virgil went to the circle of whiny bitches and we saw Giovanni Petucci getting eaten by a giant dog, because he’s a bitch, and he was all “ah help me Dante I’m so sorry I thought the Holy Roman Emperor was better than the Pope, you were right about everything”, and then Virgil –again whom I’m extremely close with– said it was too late for him.”

[huariqueje]

Garden Inn  -   Oskar Laske, 1945.

Austrian, 1874 - 1951

Watercolor and gouache on paper ,  38.5 x 43.4 cm

[chewbacca]

He could put “you” at the end of that, and say “I know you.” The idea that these two people know each other, knew each other when they first saw each other. That they recognized each other from their future. Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

[oozins]

NOT EVERYTHING FEELS LIKE SOMETHING ELSE

[thepinkpestilence]

one of the biggest cultural gaslights happened when people started to treat dracula by bram stoker as a dark romance story instead of the victorian og scooby doo shenanigans

[gringolet]

INTRO TO ARTHURIANA MASTERPOST

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[fatefatale]

“[Art] should prepare us for tenderness. And in this regard it starts, I think, with intention… Our intention is to crack life open for just a second.”

— Anton Chekhov

[lilliankillthisman]

Everyone thinks of Austen as victorian and Stalin as russian but they were actually both georgian... one of many shared traits

[antoniabishop]

dogs I saw on vacation

[eliotbaum]

You can now get a copy of the Sefirot deck, the game, pins and more until the end of February ✨

[academicssay]