quomodo sedet sola civitas

25. the world is weeping, and our tears evaporate in the heat of our sins. 🫀🗡️🕯️

[ducissatenebrarum]

German executioner’s sword from 1613 with the inscription “And the Word became Flesh”

[thesituation]

i’m tired of babying grown women who let beauty standards control their entire life. stand up, grow up & get over yourself. enough. you aren’t perpetual victims. exercise the autonomy you refuse to acknowledge you have. you can choose to stop this circus anytime. grown ass fucking women acting like helpless victims to the patriarchy and then in the next breath going “COME WITH ME TO MY BOTOX APPOINTMENT😃” you are traitors and we will never make it out of the patriarchy if personal responsibility can’t be taken

[thesituation]

like god fucking damn women for centuries fought to have financial and social independence, and we largely achieved that in most countries, just for modern women who have no idea what patriarchy used to do to us to turn around and go “i’m not the problem, blame men for saying i look prettier after a nose job” you have everything your foremothers hoped and dreamed for, all that autonomy won through blood and sweat, and you waste it offering your body up to the patriarchy because “social pressure” get the fuck over yourself and stop acting like you have no choice. absolutely pathetic

[thesituation]

and whenever people criticize women who get cosmetic procedures done and who enslave themselves to beauty standards it’s always met with “it’s not their fault, it’s the patriarchy” and i find that to be such a circular, never ending blame game. yes fucking obviously it’s the true fault of the patriarchy but you can’t hold a system of social hierarchy accountable because the decisions individuals make constitute said system. and turning it into a chicken or the egg debate does nothing besides shift blame to something that cannot be reckoned with or addressed. stop blaming the patriarchy at large for the individual decisions of fully autonomous women

[rosieandthemoon]

by freeparkingblog, in 2013

[dogpuppy]

[umrzec]

[memories-of-ancients]

Late gothic sword with ornate carved ivory hilt, Europe, 15th-16th century

from The National Museum of Denmark

[unearthedviews]

ARMENIA. Erevan. April 1994. Armenian priests at a commemoration of the Armenian genocide of 1915. Photographer: Thomas Dworzak

[pleasecometomybonfire]

Orhoq after eating a seal

[fnordseer5]

*exudes a cosmic darkness* sorry is this bothering you?

[fairyw1ngs]

city lights vs abalone shell

[bish0ps]

omg if i was an oracle i would be LYYYYYINGGGG

[tsaescii]

how it feels spending money on something i wanted

[manderley]

JENNIFER JONES The Song of Bernadette (1943)

[gargoylegf]

Kind of how it feels when you’re in the confessional and the priest clocks you rightly for a sin you confessed

[the-punforgiven]

god I wish I had a pair of menacing black gauntlets with really sharp fingertip claws I bet it feels good as fuck to have your hands resting palm-down on a surface and then scratch some deep fucking gashes into it as you clench your hand a little closer to a fist when your evil minion delivers some bad news to you

[the-punforgiven]

ohhh fuck yeah, you understand

[gargoylegf]

[nobrashfestivity]

Edvard Munch, Weeping Nude, 1913

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