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discovering my soul ✨ late diagnosed AuDHD & CPTSD ✨ recovering drug addict ✨ baby witch ✨ feminist ✨ aussie ✨ pop culture and history are my hyper interests!!!!

[forsapphics]

Ce fut dans un chaud crépuscule (Two Women Kissing in Nature) (1903)

from "Le Poison Des Pierreries" illustrated by Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1859 - 1938)

[classicdavinci]

Insomnia, Casey Childs

[garcavisconde]

"i need to clean my room / do the dishes / do the laundry" = boring, horrific, makes it seem like a burden.

"i'm tending to my realm / the magic tower needs maintenance / i'm restoring the kingdom to what it was" = beautiful, amazing, spetacular, joyful, full of childlike wonder, actually describes what the task feels like as opposed to what it is

[drunkwhenimadethis]

I have to protect myself and my vision of the world. This place is beautiful, I love life even when I have nothing and am going nowhere. Need people around me who stop to smell the roses and point out the deliciousness of the sky. Your dread can’t be infecting me. If the only way to exist with you in this life is to run through it like I’m in a race then I’m sorry but, you go ahead. See you another time

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[weltenwellen]

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, from "I Went Out to Hear"

[surqrised]

“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

— Andrea Gibson

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

agonizing over all the time you wasted or lost is useless. it’s gone now. you survived in the only way you knew how. doesn’t your survival deserve some recognition too?

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

like toni morrison said, “sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it’s not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances.”

[anxeious]

[pathologising]

ok well im going to build a good future for myself whether i like it or not

[pathologising]

literally this

[headspace-hotel]

You can give a little relief to future You. What a gift!

[beaft]

Top ten medieval animal illustrations in manuscripts

(vibrating intensely with barely repressed excitement) yeah sure that sounds like something i could do

FIRST PRIZE GOES TO:

(from a french book of hours, c. 1400s)

sad mandolin-playing cat with its vulva out. i love this cat so much. i have a picture of it on my wall and one time i thought about it while i was high and it made me laugh so hard that i nearly threw up. sad mandolin-playing cat with its vulva out is my favourite medieval animal; there is no contest, nothing comes close.

SECOND PRIZE:

(from the gorleston psalter, east anglia, angland, c. 1310-24)

i'm a really big fan of weapon-wielding rabbits in medieval art. it was hard to pick just one, but i eventually chose this guy: a gleeful rabbit getting ready to whang the king's head off with a big axe (king's expression suggests forlorn resignation).

drolleries of murderous rabbits crop up a lot in 13th and 14th-century manuscripts - sometimes jousting, sometimes overseeing executions, sometimes riding into battle on the backs of other animals - and it's generally thought to be a form of carnivalesque comic subversion, upending the stereotype of the rabbit as a meek, docile prey animal. there's a fun article about rabbits in medieval art here, if you want to see some more examples.

THIRD PRIZE:

from Der naturen bloeme, the netherlands, c. 1350)

i think this is supposed to be a mussell, but God, just look at him. he's perfect. ideal body, peak performance, no notes.

as for the remaining 7:

4. crows holding a Very Important Meeting

5. old (mer)man yaoi. well actually i don't know what's going on here but it seems intimate

6. forg

7. distressed lion receiving a manicure

8. a brave attempt at an elephant

9. happy little bat :3

10. the oldest cat you have ever seen

i hope you enjoy these beafts as much as i do!!

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I think every lesbian who says she wouldn't date a bi woman is functionally on the same wavelength as men who say they would only marry a virgin

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Frankly I deserve to have a slightly deranged crash out and lose sight of any direction for my life because if I were a fictional woman and I did that all my mutuals would be drafting long analytical posts about me and defending me online

[havingapoemwithyou]

Ash ode by Dean Young

[weltenwellen]

Franny Choi, from "thirst"

[avpdsnail]

shoutout to that underlying sense of unease that’s made a home in my bones

[prokopetz]

Game where the ancient hero is awakened from the deathless sleep of centuries in the hour of their people's greatest need, only to find that civilisation is thriving and there are no obvious threats on the horizon; the game then becomes a fish-out-of-water detective sim as they try to figure out what woke them up, and also solve other, smaller mysteries along the way.

[nearo]

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

I think that when talking about the Fermi paradox, too many people assume that intelligent life is inherently colonial.

Like, on Earth, for every hyper-imperialistic culture, there are 200 that just… aren’t.

What if they value other things? What if they see no reason to go probing and conquering?

We can assume that space aliens are “like us” without assuming that they’re like white British people specifically, can’t we?

And why assume that humans of the far future will be like humans of today? Why assume that we will become a space-faring colonial force, eager to leave our home and manifest-destiny our way across the Milky Way?

I don’t think we’ll ever lose our curiosity, and I don’t think we’ll ever stop trying to learn about distant stars, but will we feel the need to live on them?

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

I’m saying this as an art history person, by the way.

As humans, all cultures have the same mental and physical capabilities. Any culture on earth could have hypothetically produced hyper-realistic Greek-like sculptures or Renaissance-like paintings.

But realism in ancient art is incredibly rare. Not because most ancient cultures were incapable of creating realistic art, but because most ancient cultures valued other things.