the world is quiet here

my name is katherine. my priorities are women, history, politics, and literature.

[maureen2musings]

Big Sur, California

elliothawkey

[doctors-star]

highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.

[doctors-star]

me: oh thomas cromwell, we're really in it now. every day i get emails.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: i was on committees with the duke of norfolk. and they beheaded me.

me: yep. good point.

[toriaelise]

yall can keep the nonchalant ones. i need mine weak in the knees bout me

[lesamis]

are you a Byron or Wilde apologist?

concerned citizens from 1895 are messaging me

[tendercherie]

forgive me lord for I have imagined a life far more soft and tender than the one you created for me

[tendercherie]

[sapphling]

god these violent delights are fucking AWESOME lol. having a great time. btw does anybody know what we're doing after this

[lipsticklesbia]

i will never stop thinking about this poem my greek professor showed us

[peach-pot]

whatever. WHATEVER.

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

from The Crown Ain’t Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib

[orpheuslament]

Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

[soundcarvings]

[pemberlaey]

nobody does chapter titles like charles dickens

[puppybong]

[aemondtargaryens]

POOR THINGS 2023 — dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

[contemporary-art-blog]

Antony Gormley installs iron figures among ancient ruins on the Greek island of Delos

[your-starless-eyes-remain]

forever haunted by hozier's face when he sings "put me back in it" (and by haunted i mean i'm clawing my eyes out)

[everythingever]

the vocabulary of loss is the dictionary