cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus

nat they/them 24 ֍ child of rhaenicent divorce twt // ao3

[metamorphesque]

"With blood stained lips ...", Hovhannes Toumanyan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

[dkatya]

Somewhere in northern Italy

[intopermanence]

“Recognize me if you can: you were made before I was unmade.”

— Dante Alighieri, trans. by Robert M. Durling, from The Divine Comedy: “Inferno”

[renaissance-art]

Details of Flowers- Bottcelli 

[voyniches]

Virgil, trans. David West, from “The Aeneid”

[memories-of-ancients]

Mosaic depicting Hercules having a drinking contest with Dionysus, Roman Antioch, 2nd century AD

from The Worcester Museum of Art

[xshayarsha]

“Burning burning burning burning. O Lord Thou pluckest me out. O Lord Thou pluckest. Burning.”

— T.S. Eliot, from The Fire Sermon; The Waste Land.

[metamorphesque]

At Sunset, Alphonse Osbert

[vigilantsycamore]

"The Divine Comedy isn't funny because that's not what comedy meant back then" incorrect. the Divine Comedy is hilarious because partway through Dante's field trip to Hell, Virgil is like "and here's where we keep the Popes"

[centuriespast]

UNKNOWN MASTER, Spanish The Annunciation c. 1430 Wood, 140 x 169 cm Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

[metamorphesque]

   ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

[text ID: She woke to the sound of his heart knocking against his chest. As though it was searching for a way out.]

[crayawn]

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A dreaded sunny day So let’s go where we’re happy And I meet you at the cemetery gates

[64mpg]

once i figure out how to unclench my entire body my life will begin

[renaissance-art]

Bernat Martorell c. 1434-1435

Saint George Killing the Dragon (detail)

[magnetic-deflection]

before there were phones people read the bible while driving

[engulfes]

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[dostoyevsky-official]

things fall apart 😂 the centre cannot hold 😂😂 and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born 😂😂😂🤣🤣