The Hymn to Nikkal

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[spoekelse]

Value Pack

[corvidaedream]

im just crying while scrolling through the mfa's digitized 18th century drawings which include a really soft and loving drawing of a baby snoozing thats titled "the artist's daughter" thats just radiating love, and also some very weird German birth certificates from a town in Pennsylvania that a man in 1771 painted mermaids and flowers and lions on

there's just something about these acts of love through art, man... they're really getting me tonight.

[corvidaedream]

i can't explain specifically what about this drawing is making me so emotional, im just having a moment thinking about the fact that this man was another living breathing human like me and 250-ish years ago in france, he sat drawing his tiny baby while she slept, and he is communicating that to me across centuries and an ocean with this image he made, and I can feel the love in my heart that he felt right then.

[prinz-myshkin]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[gaysie]

this is one of my most “the sink helps with water” dumbest thoughts but this morning i was so absurdly grateful that we have a calendar cycle i almost cried. like what if instead of looping back through months everything was just an incredibly long series of numerically ordered days without pattern. that would be soooooo depressing but instead we live in a beautiful world where we actually have chance after chance because there will be more junes!!!!!

[sisterwolf]

Longhaired babe - Stan Shuttleworth 

[polpotpie]

What if water didn't have surface tension and whenever you spilled some, the whole floor of your entire apartment was covered in a 2 micrometer deep puddle

[teaboot]

you've taught me to count blessings I didn't know were mine

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Adoration (2024) Self-portrait photography by Iness Rychlik

[aroundtheworldmp3]

Armenia, 1982

[il9vemyputer]

everyone on replies is terrified of this fact but i just think it's so sweet and heartwarming. she's holding our hand and leading us somewhere secret and we're both giggling like kids. i love her

[solowinged]

let’s travel through the vast unknown with mama

[dollsinvogue]

Barbie Flowers in Fashion The Calla Lily (2002) » Moschino spring/summer 2018 rtw

[metamorphesque]

musings on april

Sylvia Plath (Leon Dabo), Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Naguib Mahfouz (Edgar Degas), E. E. Cummings (Édouard Manet), Rabindranath Tagore, T. S. Eliot (Edgar Degas), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Alphonse Osbert)

[cursed-and-haunted]

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

[cursed-and-haunted]

In case you're curious here's what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

Do you see the difference?

[gabyluvsxena]

this post has re-wired my brain in the best way

[limoncello-kiss-deactivated2024]

I like my body when it’s with your body

[catsofyore]

A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.

[ceeejus]

meeps + alternate colors

[cottaegecore]

- sylvia plath

[metamorphesque]

unfolding into another spring

mahmood darwish, sylvia plath, v.e. schwab, ana mendieta