The Point Of Diving In A Lake

negative capability

[liivn]

[tejanx]

one of my favorite poem titles 

[riverwindphotography]

Wild Sweet Clover in morning sunlight

© riverwindphotography

[nevver]

The deep water is unmerciful, Narahashi Asako

[histsciart]

Kew Gardens in the Early 20th Century

Illustrations from top to bottom:

The Queen’s Cottage

The Queen’s Cottage Gardens

The Wild Garden in Spring

The Water Lily Pond

Botanical illustrations by T. Mower Martin for Kew Gardens (1908) by A. R. Hope Moncrieff. More beautiful artwork from this publication can be found in Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Flickr album.

[rneliflua]

some people are so used to mostly consuming media where the women and people of color are static set dressing in stories about white men that they can't wrap their heads around the concept that female characters and characters of color can have arcs of their own. they'll see a character who's not a white man display a personality flaw that is clearly being set up to be overcome and they see it not as the setup of what promises to be an enticing character journey, but as an essential defining trait of their being, and proceed to demonize such characters for it. white men get to be dynamic and complex, women and people of color get essentialism and a pressure for likeability over good storytelling.

[asfearlessasamango]

"I would suggest that we are well-trained to like "unappealing" male characters-- so much so that I would imagine anyone who wanted their male character to be truly and deeply unlikeable would face quite a challenge.... Conversely, we are not well-trained to like anyone other than the basically virtuous and proficient female protagonist." Rivka Galchen

Would You Want to Be Friends With Humbert Humbert?: A Forum on “Likeability,” The New Yorker, May 16th, 2023

An Unseemly Emotion: PW Talks With Claire Messud (the og interview)

[seriedesiluetas]

published in the brooklyn rail (2021)

[nobrashfestivity]

René Magritte, The Blow to the Heart, 1952

‘Magritte’ (lower right); signed again, dated and titled ‘MAGRITTE ’ oil on canvas more

[carmen-berzattos]

Do you write music with the view of being politically active and delivering a message or does it just happen and the rest follows? 

[titsay]

strawberry date 🍓

[anchounn]

thinking of summer

[lucidloving]

Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"

[oysters-aint-for-me]

[celerylapel]

Happy Monday.

[nudityandnerdery]

[nevver]

dappling, Duri Baek 백두리

[darkcrystals]

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK         1975 | dir. Peter Weir

[florealegiardini]

Feline faerie among the violets

[determinate-negation]

people refuse to see the violence it takes to maintain the status quo as such and instead fear the hypothetical violence it will take to destroy it. they see the current order of things as a state of stasis and inaction, instead of as a violent order upheld by constant action, which can be undone by action

[vexillologyisenjoyable]

yeah but like. Robespierre killed over 20,000 people. Which is. You know. Bad.

[determinate-negation]

why did you assume this was about the french revolution

[xiranjayzhao]

"There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves."

- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

"A cloud had been forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial."

- Victor Hugo, Les Mis