—at once the Paradise,

The grave, the city, and the wilderness;

[propertiesofjoy]

the idiot, fyodor dostoevsky

[princess-of-phyresis]

they're selling anti-ai slogans on sweatshop-produced t-shirts. i don't need to write the poem for you to get it do i

[komsomolka]

russian schoolgirls treating classic ruslit as bishounen dating sim got all my respec

[gatabella]

Audrey Hepburn on the set of Roman Holiday, 1953

[visenyaism]

If asoiaf is so good then where's Illidan Stormrage. what he doing in all this

Dragonstone honey

[alifeoffairytales]

Lydia Yakovlevna Tymoshenko - illustration for Eugene Onegin

[sharkwhale]

Why do I feel like the woman is the bear’s lover

[omgellendean]

Because she is! Well, his future wife, actually, but still.

This picture illustrates the dream heroine of the novel “Eugene Onegin” Tatyana had, in which, among other things, she was kidnapped by a bear. This happened during Christmastide (Святки), which in Slavic culture is the time of divination and magic. Tatyana spent the day before that trying to see her future and find out when she will get married. Right before going to sleep, she wanted to try another sort of divination (specifically connected to marriage in Russian culture of the period) but was too scared.

She dreamt about a bear chasing and catching her in the winter forest, bringing her then to his house. In Russian folklore, the bear traditionally symbolises the groom or young husband. Also, one chapter later, Tatyana actually got married. This makes this dream an obvious marriage foreshadowing and the bear Tatyana’s future husband.

So what I’m saying here is that you’ve got romantic vibes from this picture because they are supposed to be here, and the bear and the maiden are going to marry.

[389]

Sulfur, salt, and other minerals color the crater of Dallol volcano, part of the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia. At 157 feet (48 meters) below sea level, Dallol is Earth’s lowest land volcano.

Photograph by Carsten Peter

[thevampirearchive]

I’m obsessed @/KingKravitz

[cleaningouttherooms]

substack simulator

post 1: they don't want you to know that everyone is stupid and angry nowadays. and its because of covid post 2: ive tied together two social trends ive identified. and they are because of fascism post 3: they don't want you to know that everyone is stupid and angry nowadays. and its because of AI post 4: ive tied together two social trends ive identified. and they are because of christianity post 5: transmasculine joy is revolutionary post 6: i am the only literate cinephile left in a sea of cartoon watchers. and here are my thoughts about this critically acclaimed hollywood film post 7: no longer identifying as transmasculine and stopping T because the patriarchy exists is revolutionary post 8: ive tied together two social trends ive identified. and they are because of tiktok

[visenyaism]

I can see that you don’t understand the importance of the Amethyst Empress myth being mirrored in Rhaenyra’s story via the female heiress being usurped and killed by her younger brother. It’s not some random occurrence that most dragons were born during Rhaenyra’s lifetime and her death ended the magic that made the dragons flourish. The dragon births coincide with Rhaenyra’s own blooming fertility and in the end Rhaenyra’s bloodline prevails against her usurpers. Rhaenyra’s life represents the height of Targaryen power and her death ended the dragons just as the Amethyst Empress could’ve brought a new dawn to the Great Empire but instead her death caused the Long Night. The Amethyst Empress had no bloodline to survive her so that’s why the Long Night happened. The survival of Rhaenyra’s bloodline is important precisely because of the role they will play in ending the Long Night.

I can see that you don’t understand that this interpretation of the text is over-literal, thematically myopic, and dumb. And most importantly, boring. Now what.

[visenyaism]

Interpreting asoiaf as a story about the eventual triumph of a chosen bloodline to the point where everything their ancestors ever did is retroactively completely justified to get them to that point is just so profoundly whatever. The only two characters in the main series who really believe that are like Viserys III (wrong) and Melisandre (double wrong.)

​Targs and Valyrians keep apocalypsing themselves and then when given the chance to build something better on the ashes of the old world, fail to do so. Dany is interesting because she’s the last one, and as a teenage girl, someone who the dynasty would’ve completely discarded in her own right. But the narrative points at her and says because of that she’s the first one that might get it right. Daenerys is a hero largely because of her own choices. Ones she makes largely because of an upbringing removed from the power, privilege, and mythology of her family.

The dragons died in the Dance because the Targaryens used their incomprehensible power to start a realm destroying civil war, and war is bad (even if Rhaenyra was obviously wronged) not because the world lost Rhaenyra’s “blooming fertility.” The purpose of the Amethyst Empress myth is to counterbalance the Azor Ahai one so we know that what one culture calls benevolent patriarchal self-sacrifice another calls murder. Question more things that the narrative tells you. I think you’re supposed to.

[classic-art-favourites]

Sandy Coastline by Ivan Shishkin, 1879.

[depsidase]

[roycohn]

sorry to tack on but i have a folder full of these images bc i collect ones that make me laugh, MY TIME HAS COME

[senatortedcruz]

[transhuman-priestess]

@zoethesportsblog

[zoesupreme]

a few of my favorites

[zoesupreme]

a new one just dropped

[dappergamelord]

had to add a couple favs from my personal collection

[mackwing]

had to add these bangers

[captainplant]

my favorite

[friedmangoes]

[depsidase]

[roycohn]

sorry to tack on but i have a folder full of these images bc i collect ones that make me laugh, MY TIME HAS COME

[senatortedcruz]

[transhuman-priestess]

@zoethesportsblog

[zoesupreme]

a few of my favorites

[zoesupreme]

a new one just dropped

[dappergamelord]

had to add a couple favs from my personal collection

[mackwing]

had to add these bangers

[atthepriceofoblivion]

[oedipalrivalry]

actually talking about athlete health i've noticed that increasingly decisions about athletes playing through injury are framed in terms of "autonomy" and "independence" both by the athletes themselves and by journalists, rather than as coming from coaches or federations. a recent example would be kevin de bruyne choosing to play with a hamstring injury during the 22/23 premier league season. and i think perhaps it's an example of how this culture of playing through injury, putting your body on the line etc. has permeated sports to an extent that athletes no longer have to be pressured to perform by outside forces - they've already made that decision for themselves.

[gabriellelestat]

really not a fan of how illiteracy is treated like a moral repellent and a justifiable excuse for social mockery, rejection, and exclusion. and ofc these ‘jokes’ and conversations often forget how access to education in itself is very privileged and ignore relevant conversations surrounding class-based discrimination.

[gabriellelestat]

online definitions of ‘literacy’ for very long now have been divorced from the actual meaning of the word in a way I find very problematic and full of grand pretensions. you’re not a connoisseur of culture and art setting yourself apart from the ignorant and uneducated masses, you’re an asshole and not essentially very different from a playground bully who likes to make people feel small so you can feel big

[28dayslater]

[holdmybvbeer]

a CONE ... sitting on the BENCH

[random-brushstrokes]

Leon Bakst - The poet Zinaida Gippius (1906)