a pain so radiant

Been up to aesthetic tumbling since 2010. Will probably never get over it.

[thecolorblockcurator]

Femme avec des Fleurs, Romaine Brooks

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Gordon Lameyer written c. July 1954, featured in The Collected Letters

[nasa]

Welcome to the Far Side of the Moon

A crescent Earth sets behind the Moon.

On April 6, 2026, the Artemis II astronauts flew around the Moon, observing the far side – which we never see on Earth thanks to tidal locking – with their own eyes and with cameras.

See more of the Moon:

A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon’s horizon.

Earth setting behind the Moon as seen by the Artemis II crew. Over half the left side of the image is filled by the gray lunar surface, pocked with craters.

A close view of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image.

A close view of the edge of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the dark gray lunar surface, which arcs across the image.

A close-up view of the Moon, filling most of the frame. Along the left side of the image, the terminator divides the illuminated and darkened sides of the Moon.

A close-up view of the Moon, filling most of the frame. Along the left side of the image, the terminator divides the illuminated and darkened sides of the Moon.

Earth just as it set behind the Moon, as seen by the Artemis II crew. The dark gray surface of the Moon, pocked with craters, arcs from the bottom left corner of the image to the top right.

Check out more photos from the lunar flyby, including astronaut selfies and the solar eclipse only they experienced.

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[nixscriptum]

[derangedrhythms]

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

TEXT ID:  [Music. The WITCHES dance, and vanish.]

[nevver]

You never heard such silence, Elizabeth Shull

[yesterdaysprint]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1925

[8pxl]

oceanic prisms 🌈✨ buy a wallpaper or leave a tip / twitter / instagram / shop 

[nevver]

Look through any window, Paloma Salgado Díaz

[bodidarma]

“Rose’s Look” by Emile Corsi, 1878

[mournfulroses]

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, translated by Babette Deutsch, from “You Appeared,”

[dissecting-the-automaton]

Epigraph on the forward to Of Blood and Bones by Kate Freuler.

[shisasan]

This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer’s last stand.

Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking

[fortuneaday]

[A white fortune cookie paper with blue text. Front: The best times of your life have not yet been lived. Lucky Numbers 41, 36, 22, 51, 39, 34 Back: August, Chinese text 八 (bā) 月 (yuè)]

[nevver]

Constellations of summer, Alvin Ng

[weltenwellen]

Joanna Klink, from "Wonder of Birds“, Raptus

[mournfulroses]

Sarah Manguso, from her book titled "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary," published in 2015