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“It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little—have few verbal means. Eloquence—thinking in words—is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.”

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh (via mesogeios)

mapsontheweb

Japanese pictorial map of Africa from 1942

#colonial cartograph #africa #japan

hanavbara

persona | shadow | ego ✨

missmilk

white: hey have you listened to [classic rock band/song]

me: no im latina

gendertranspositions

Sorry but that’s like asking me, “Have you listened to Juanes or Fetty Wap?” and me responding, “No I’m a white woman”.

Your ethnicity doesn’t preclude you from potentially being exposed to certain music genres.

missmilk

me: jokes

white: *crying uncontrollably* we are all one music genre….. the human genre

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slam-asian

Bowl, Chinese, early 18th century, Saint Louis Art Museum: Asian Art

#i literally said fuck me aloud when i saw this #chinese art

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Doing the good work for the people and translating Shakespeare as it should be done👍

Shakespeare:

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viostormcaller

The nature of humanity is that every so often someone accidentally invents Shakespeare again

prismatic-bell

Okay, I think this started as a joke post, but it’s actually a pretty good AND CULTURALLY ACCURATE translation?

Like, we think of Shakespeare as highbrow because he’s old. He wasn’t highbrow. If you’re reading the play in book form and you haven’t found a dick joke on any given page yet you’re either reading a specific passage in Macbeth, or you need liner notes. This is in fact pretty much how it would be written today.