☽Sancta Sophia☾

◯ bex / 26 / rochester, ny ♍️♈️♊️

[yjeong-deactivated20250623]

[sadvicious-blog]

@deathspersecond

[deathspersecond-blog]

Breaking my tumblr silence to say Dustin is the kind of kid I would have had a crush on.

[kingoftieland]

Muppet mischief!

[deathspersecond-blog]

Ghost Stories

[dabneycoleperson]

This is a concert video of Lit playing “My Own Worst Enemy” in Mountain View, CA in 1999, and it has absolutely the best crowd shots I have ever seen in anything.

[postage-in-return]

i don’t know how to even deal with this. also this reminds me of the time where mest and lucky boys confusion were also a thing. and that wasn’t a good reminder.

[bubble-lead]

What a time it was to be alive

[twothousanddollarpurse]

they don’t take a lot of pictures of the eiffel tower from this angle so i thought i’d share one.

[bahahahamilton]

I took you advice @linmanuel and memorized every word of “Alright” by Kendrick for our Valentines dance and lemme just say, it absolutely worked.

[linmanuel]

I am so glad. And what a great song to choose. You gon’ be alRIGHT

[pickingupthepunchlines]

Daveed Digg’s voice reblog if u agree

[kakochii]

[magictransistor]

Saint Bede the Venerable, Saint Isidore of Sevilla, Saint Abbo of Fleury. Cosmography, Walters MS W73. 1100s.

Created in 12th century England, this manuscript was intended to be a scientific textbook for monks, designed as a compendium of cosmographical knowledge. The complex diagrams that accompany the texts help to illustrate this knowledge, and include visualizations of the heavens and earth, seasons, winds, tides, and the zodiac, as well as demonstrations of how these things relate to man. Most of the diagrams are rotae, or wheel-shaped schemata, favored throughout the Middle Ages for the presentation of scientific and cosmological ideas. Moreover, the circle, considered the most perfect shape and a symbol of God, was seen as conveying the cyclical nature of time as well as the logic, order, and harmony of the created universe.

[heavyanddissolved]

Detail of Four women in a palace garden

Miniature, India, Bundi, 18th century

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[animus-inviolabilis]

Illuminated Leaf

Iran

16th Century (via https://www.flickr.com/photos/125761528@N06/15350413157/ and The Metropolitan Museum)

Poem by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

My heart is like an oyster shell, the Beloved’s phantom is the pearl; now I am no more contained, for this house is filled with Him.

Night split the lip of my soul with the sweetness of His talk; I am surprised at him who says, “Truth is bitter.”

Mortals’ food comes from without, but the lover’s food is from within; he regurgitates and chews, for the lover is like a camel.

Be swift-faring like a peri, denude yourself of your body; nakedness is not allowed to him who has the mange.

Salah al-Din has come to the chase; all the lions are his quarry; that man is his servant who is free from the two worlds.

[parcelsandcomfits]

My philosophy for my entire life. 

Read the Powerpuff Girls comics, by the way, they’re excellent. 

[pickleston]

[1upforlife]

[theyandereblog]

[fiinch]

“There is no special love exclusively reserved for romantic partners. Genuine love is the foundation of our engagement with ourselves, with family, with friends, with partners, with everyone we choose to love. While we will necessarily behave differently depending on the nature of a relationship , or have varying degrees of commitment, the values that inform our behavior, when rooted in a love ethic, are always the same for any interaction.” “Often we take friendships for granted even when they are the interactions where we experience mutual pleasure. We place them in a secondary position, especially in relation to romantic bonds. This devaluation of our friendships creates an emptiness we may not see when we are devoting all of our attention to finding someone to love romantically or giving all our attention to a chosen loved one. “

[deathspersecond-blog]

Happy Valentine's Day from bell hooks and me, folx.

[recovering-perfectionist-deacti]

For as females in patriarchal culture, we cannot determine our self-worth.  Our value, our worth, and whether or not we can be loved are always determined by someone else.  Within patriarchal culture, the girl who does not feel loved in her family of origin is given another chance to prove her worth when she is encouraged to seek love from males.  Schoolgirl crushes, mad obsessions, compulsive longings for male attention and approval indicate that she is rightly pursuing her gendered destiny, on the road to becoming the female who can be nothing without a man.  Whether she is heterosexual or homosexual, the extent to which she yearns for patriarchal approval will determine whether she is worthy to be loved.  This is the emotional uncertainty that haunts the lives of all females in patriarchal culture.

Communion: The Female Search for Love by Bell Hooks (via fiinch)