bringer of rain

henri • xxiii • queer

[lekythoi]

october 2025 • the lake district

[academic-vampire]

𝔞𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔨𝔶 𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔰 𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔶

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society’s double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible, who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women, they can become women much earlier — and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.

—Susan Sontag, "The Double Standard of Aging," The Saturday Review, Sept 23, 1972

(Philo Thoughts)

[laleaurelie]

it’s everyone and their mountain

[neshamama]

phoebe helander, "coffee," 2023, oil on wood

[allthingseurope]

Budapest, Hungary (by Mihaly Koles)

[lahija-del-molinero]

Leon Jan Wyczółkowski (1852-1936) 

[deathandmysticism]

The stones of Örelid, an Iron Age burial ground with standing stones in a field of rye, Sweden, 1930

[feet-of-clay]

Arbutus draped in Spanish moss

[myvelouria]

[hadrian6]

The Louvre Statuettes.  Richelieu Wing - Louvre Paris.

http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[academic-vampire]

𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔬𝔬𝔫 𝔩𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱

[centuriespast]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851), Frankenstein, manuscript, MS. Abinger c.56, fols. 20v – 21r, 1816 – 1817. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

[potatosaresweet]

in my richard papen era(failing academics, in need of friends, romantising things i don't even understand)

[anthropathology-deactivated2024]

I like when a friendship feels like a collaboration. I’m drawn to memorialising and documentation. My impulse is always to build a body of work. I laugh almost exclusively at in-jokes and references, quantify my closeness with people by the extent to which we’ve developed our own private language. I try to reign this in around moment-to-moment sort of people, but when someone else is like me, it’s like a new universe exploding outwards

[mollyjames]

Look we can't all have cute hyperfixations. Some of us got really pretentious ones.

[scavengedluxury]

People wait at the Berlin Wall for the opening of a temporary crossing between West and East Berlin, 1989. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.