A Mess™

Marion, 20s. Non-binary, bi (they/them). Sports lunacy @gracinggreyhound, writing @skeeno on AO3, art @here.

[theegoist]

Jan Tarasin (Polish, 1926–2009) - Rain, Oil, canvas, 88 × 129 cm (1995)

[venustapolis]

Villa, a Fountain by the Lake in the foreground (Ferdinand Knab, 1834 - 1902)

[polkadotmotmot]

Summer Wheat - Refrigerator, 2026 - Acrylic paint and gouache on aluminum mesh

[miamaimania]

Aqrah, Kurdistan (2016) by Safin Hamed ⍋ A shepherd and his flock on the green slopes — AFP / Getty Images

[edinburgh-by-the-sea]

in windless silence

[pmamtraveller]

Gustav Klimt garden paintings

[thedupshadove]

Opera plot: Local Noble realizes that his affections for Pretty Village Girl have a rival in the form of Honest Laborer. Having read enough romances to know that a girl asked to choose between a rich man and a poor man will always pick the poor man, whereas in a love triangle between two rich men it's anyone's game, he decides that his chief object must be to elevate his rival's wealth and status as quickly as possible. What the Compte de Genre-Savie over here forgot to account for, however, was the overwhelming power of the Pygmalion Effect, and now he has to deal with watching two people he's in love with develop ever-stronger feelings for each other. Eventually all of this resolves via...I don't know.

[queenofattolia]

#first of all: ''comte de genre-savie'' is PERFECT. just great. absolutely no notes.#I would love an opera with this exact plot. bonus points if the comte is genuinely genre savvy#he keeps bringing up opera tropes only for the other characters to look at him like he's insane.#the score is diagetic to him; when he points out reoccurring themes or transitions to minor keys#the other characters ask him what the hell he's talking about. the whole chorus gets together to sing about how#comte de genre-savie is going mad. the comte tries to sneak away and keeps getting pulled back in.#I wonder if you could even push it further - have it so that only the comte can speak or 'hear' spoken words;#all other characters communicate in recitativo secco or formally composed songs#then you can have scenes where the comte is speaking but the other character in the scene can't hear him.#this can be played for laughs (the comte tries to order something from a shopkeeper; the shopkeeper walks away as he's talking)#and for dramatic effect (the Honest Laborer is singing a heartfelt duet with the Pretty Village Girl#and neither of them can hear the comte saying 'I love you' in between their lines)#........I am into this actually. I had to convince myself that this wasn't just cyrano de bergerac but no. it isn't. I'm into it.#upon the stage (via @notbecauseofvictories)

[nobrashfestivity]

Helen Frankenthaler, Monoprint VII

[crumbofmoon]

i fuck with this heavily

[withdreamsofhereafter]

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree

[drukhari]

Hate the stomach's occasional tendency to respond to hunger with nausea. Like babygirl you are NOT helping your case right now by threatening to push the emergency "eject all food now" button!!!

[onadarklingplain]

if you're on a bus sitting in the aisle seat next to a stranger and a nearby seat row becomes free, is it morally correct to move to the empty row?

obviously yes

it's not a big deal either way

nuance

Voting ended onJan 23

hopefully i've phrased this so it makes sense, but i need to know if i'm insane or if all the people in my city are monsters. this is assuming you are able to safely move while the bus is stopped, the seat is close by, and you're able to move seats without much difficulty etc.

[omtai]

The lion lowkey concerns himself a little bit

[scalpho]

if you are a man and angry and maybe tearing up a little bit or even just looking out from under the brow line. a tumblr user will find you. and they will put a screenshot of alexandre cabanel's the fallen angel next to your face

[hitku]

by David Hockney

[expressions-of-nature]

Squamish-Lillooet, Canada by Paul

[brigantias-isles]

Two Rabbits with a Sled 

by Beatrix Potter (1894)