[random-brushstrokes]

Gioacchino Pagliei - The Naiads (1881)

[fantasyartwatch]

Fairies and the Peasant Girl by Yuliya Litvinova

[metamorphesque]

― Speeches for Dr Frankenstein, Margaret Atwood

[text ID: you dangle on the leash / of your own longing; your /  need grows teeth]

[localbookshop]

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source : Nothing But The Girl ; The Blatant Lesbian Image ; A Portfolio and Exploration of Lesbian Erotic Photography - Edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener

[dpdl-deactivated20240730]

when margaret atwood said “i'm sorry there is so much pain in this story” and richard siken said “there is no other version of this story” and mary oliver said “you don’t want to hear the story of my life, and anyway, i don’t want to tell it”

[scheidungsgrund]

Undine rising from the waters, Marble statue by Chauncey Bradley Ives [1810-1894]

[oldmoonlullaby]

Old Book Covers.

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[women-loving-art]

Leonor Fini Pleasure 1964

[kaalbela]

Liza Sivakova

[metamorphesque]

— Christy Bartlett, Flickwerk: The Aesthetics of Mended Japanese Ceramics

[cryptotheism]

Humans love observing arbitrary categories and going "what if this was universal truth"

[metamorphesque]

poetry recommendations for december

The Untrustworthy Speaker by Louise Glück

Ashes and Blossoms by Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Raw With Love by Charles Bukowski

Dear [ ] by Nick Lantz

The Language of the Birds by Richard Siken

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Snowdrops by Louise Glück

The Road Away by Kim Sowol

From June to December: Summer Villanelle by Wendy Cope

“After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad,” by Elisa Gonzalez

Letter to a Lost Friend by Barbara Hamby

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[palesystemmalfunction]

“Heartbroken” 1895 Ignacio Diaz Olano

[jondrettegirls]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

[inthedarktrees]

Mademoiselle Ledue, a performer at the Folies Bergère, ca. 1924

[antiqueanimals]

The Wounded Eagle. Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)

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