strange bird

…

[bongjoonhoe]

Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. Agnès Varda

[1000-life-hacks]

[archeologist-prophet]

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

[bitchesgetriches]

The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There

[somedaywewillshinetogether]

french vintage asymmetrical purse pocket dress

[othellho]

Ingram, John Henry, Flora Symbolica: The language and sentiment of flowers, (London: 1869).

[dk-thrive]

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin,, April 16 2002)

[lawrenceleemagnuson]

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Lithuania 1875-1911) Angels (Paradise) 1909 tempera on cardboard 61.8 x 47 cm

[sovietpostcards]

Photo by Vitaly Karpov (Crimea, 1984)

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

Charisma Carpenter as CORDELIA CHASE BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 3.09 "The Wish"

[jinxproof]

© Jason Renaud

[somethinginyourbones]

*banging on your window*

guys guys, omg. The laughing into the kiss??? Him leaning his head onto her shoulder??? I’m screaming.

[9e978e]

via

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Jacob Lawrence, Street Shadows, 1959. Egg tempera on board.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) was one of the most celebrated African American artists to date. While living in New York, he studied at the Art Students League and at Studio 306 in Harlem and worked under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Although abstract paintings were in vogue at the time, Lawrence maintained a dedication to creating representational paintings. In Street Shadows, Lawrence depicts a busy urban block. The scene is filled with stylized figures and buildings as well as planes of light and shadow.

Photo & text: MoMA

[apolladay]

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

*The King in Yellow

* The Lottery

* The Masque of the Red Death

* The Monkey’s Paw

* The Most Dangerous Game

* The Nameless City

* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

* There Will Come Soft Rains

*The Yellow Wallpaper

* The Veldt

* “you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The King in Yellow

The Lottery

The Masque of the Red Death

The Monkey’s Paw

The Most Dangerous Game

The Nameless City

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

There Will Come Soft Rains

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Veldt

“you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Voting ended onApr 30

[it-grrl]

Okay I have things I should be seeing to but I couldn't help myself. In case you, like me, have not read all of these stories and would like to be amongst the lucky 10,000 today:

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers*

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson**

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard O'Connell

The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Honorable Mention from the comments/reblogs:

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

*note: this is actually a collection of short stories and clocks in at about 72k words

**Originally published in the New Yorker in 1948; interestingly, the New Yorker still has this story archived on their website BEHIND A PAYWALL. CAN YOU IMAGINE.

[heateron]

behind the scenes of suspiria (2018) dir. luca guadagnino

[feytouched]

cannot stop thinking abt the paris review’s essay series on the history of significance of certain colours, hue’s hue:

Periwinkle, the Color of Poison, Modernism, and Dusk

Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe

Marian Blue, the Color of Angels, Virgins, and Other Untouchable Things

Incarnadine, the Bloody Red of Fashionable Cosmetics and Shakespearean Poetics

Jonquil, the Light Yellow of Early Flowers, Mad Painters, and Dust Bowl–Era Pottery

Scheele’s Green, the Color of Fake Foliage and Death

Lilac, the Color of Half Mourning, Doomed Hotels, and Fashionable Feelings

Hooker’s Green: The Color of Apple Trees and Envy

Blaze Orange, the Color of Fear, Warnings, and the Artificial

Chartreuse, the Color of Elixirs, Flappers, and Alternate Realities

Living Coral, the Brutal Hue of Climate Change and Brand New iPhones

Mustard, the Color of Millennial Candidates, Problematic Lattes, and Aboriginal Paintings

Russet, the Color of Peasants, Fox Fur, and Penance

Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence

[feytouched]

But Wait, There’s More! as i found out after making the initial post, there are a few other colours katy kelleher also covered in other outlets: payne’s gray, haint blue, rose madder, falu red, glaucous, fuchsia, caput mortuum, prussian blue, gamboge, celadon, and puce.

also shoutout to her other series, the ugly history of beautiful things, which talks about: lockets, angora, perfume, pearls, mirrors, and orchids.

[nevver]

[altered-statuses]

Simply Living no.11 (Australia, 1980)