cosima

"nous avons l’art pour ne pas mourir de la vérité". xv, french, she/her, writer, daydreamer, dark academic and sapphic

[redlovewitch]

all sapphics do is tempt fate, eat grapes while reclining on a chaise lounge, lust after their muses and lie

[dearestvita-deactivated20221122]

“You imagine a world where the two of you can go out to dinner together on a Saturday night and no one thinks twice about it. It makes you want to cry, the simplicity of it, the smallness of it.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid, from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

[handweavers]

i found this documentary on youtube about africa’s great civilizations throughout history and it’s really good and chock full of info dispelling harmful myths and preconceptions about african societies, the first part is 2 ½ hrs long and the second part is another 2 ½ hours so there’s a solid 5 hours of content here completely for free and most of the scholars in the documentary are black african scholars and academics speaking about their own people’s history

[metaphorformetaphor]

“I do nothing but search and not find. That’s how I waste my nights.”

—

Alejandra Pizarnik, from “01 May 1972,” of Uncollected Poems  (1962-1972), Selected Poems, transl. by Cecilia Rossi (Waterloo Press, 2010)

[kotaku]

The End, by Alister Lockhart.

[walkinchicken]

Bruh, if you don’t think that having historically significant events well documented from multiple perspectives is a good thing, then idk what the hell u doin.

[purplebloodedmajesty]

Besides, like, that is literally a Giant Monster Rampaging Through The Town. What the fuck is the everyday person gonna do other than Tweet/Instagram/Post about it going “It’s the apocalypse you guys! Eyyyy lmao #apocalypse #deathrising #nofilter”?

[nbkatara]

#like come on your cellphone may not defeat the beast#but it can gain you like 50000 followers before the skies start raining blood so#who’s the REAL winner here? (via @purplebloodedmajesty)

[songofsunset]

And heck, even if your own death is inevitable getting information out could help save other people, even if it can’t save you. ‘Here are 20 livestreams of the giant tentacle monster including how it moves and attacks, how can we beat it?’ is way more useful than ‘an entire city got wiped off the map and things smell vaguely of calimari idk man’

[steppsful]

reblogging for this perfection: ‘an entire city got wiped off the map and things smell vaguely of calimari idk man’ 

[fangirljeanne]

I personally would be trying to give the Great One flowers and chocolate, but I don’t fault others for watching to get a picture of something so glorious and terrible. 😍

[hussyknee]

These are photos taken by Robert Landsburg of the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. He realized he would never get to safety in time, so he kept taking pictures of the ash cloud for as long as possible. Then he put the camera securely in his bag and lay down on top of it to protect it before being engulfed in the pyroclastic flow. When they found his body, the recovered the pictures were invaluable to geologists because no one had ever been able to document an eruption that close up before.

There are many more such photographs of unimaginable perspectives taken moments before death, only because of the compelling human desire to assert that we were here, this happened, this was real. It’s the most human desire there is - to reach out across time and space to connect with our fellow beings until our last breath.

[aquilacalvitium]

That’s haunting

[feanor-the-dragon]

I fucking tear up every time I see this post because that’s it. That’s the essence of what it means to be human.

I was here. I explored. I saw this. Remember me.

Fuck

[pismandeliyim-deactivated202008]

[thesevvs]

The Nymph Caught the Dryad in Her Arms - The New World Fairy Book Howard Angus Kennedy (1904) Illustrated by H.R Miller 

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“In sleep, I become a garden of roses blooming in the dark.”

— Lisa Marie Basile, from “Light Magic for Dark Times,” published c. 2018

[mossywound]

i will stay alive as performance art

[icarusfa1ls]

physically i am here barely surviving with the monumental weight of a capitalist society on my shoulders but mentally i am sitting with a lover on a rooftop having a rousing discussion about a book while gazing at the stars

[straightboyfriend]

not to be rude but i wanna be special to someone

[antoniettabrandeisova]

The Piazetta in Venice by Night, Henry Pether (British, 1828–1865)

[bimorgana]

Saoirse Ronan & Kate Winslet in AMMONITE (2020) Dir. Francis Lee

[flowerytale]

Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo (London, beginning of January 1874)

[starwitnesser]

donna tartt characters don’t know how to cook. all they know is be gay, be homophobic, form unhealthy obsession with female friend, get absolutely wasted, mental decay and lie.

[weltenwellen]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

[lord-des-fleurs]