Elle

La Belle Ange Marxist-Leninist ☭

[sendentaryworm]

Some wide angle shots I took back in the start of May. It was the transition of seasons and introduction of new palettes.

[smsomah]

Doing basketry work. Oman, 1985. Gigi Crocker Jones

[shisasan]

this feeling courses through my blood night and day, full of love.

July 22, 1913 Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: a love story in letters (1897-1926)

[txttletale]

it does drive me a little crazy just a little how casually usamericans will invoke vietnam war veterans as like, a cultural archetype. On account of knowing what the vietnam war actually entailed and all

[kaalbela]

Tandanu • Indian Ocean

[demonprincex]

a lot of behaviors that get attributed to "female socialization" can be so much more easily and accurately understood as a person recognizing the power differential surrounding them and behaving sensibly in response to that.

like. does a woman politely listen to a man monologue at her because of some experience she had when she was twelve that magically cursed her to behave that way forever, or does she do it because the man has the power to hurt her and she knows it?

does a woman do all the dishes in her household because she is less capable of breaking out of a long-ago conditioned response than, like, your average trained dog, or is she doing that because she knows that all the men in the house will blame her if she doesnt and will make life worse for her if she speaks up?

maybe a lot of sexist patterns of behavior that are widely observed in society arent caused by women like, lacking willpower or backbone? maybe it is super fucking weird for supposedly feminist movements to imply this is the case when they talk about female socialization as the end all, be all of predicting human behavior?

isnt it both more useful and more respectful toward women to consider that they are perceiving their present circumstances accurately, and recognize when power is already being wielded against them, and take logical measures to deescalate and protect themselves because it works? is it not fucking clear to everybody that trans women in particular have to do this all the fucking time?

[demonprincex]

[bobdylanyaoi]

[memorycycle]

first thing id do as a skeleton is drink red wine from a goblet and have it spill out everywhere . second thing id do is play my ribs like a xylophone

[smsomah]

The thalai, with the pendant known as chutti, that Tamil brides wear on their forehead. Scanned from the book Wedding Ceremonies: Ethnic Symbols, Costume and Rituals; 2001; Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone

[caspien-see]

‘Socialism always fails!’

Then let it fail. What are you so afraid of? Let it prove to the world its inadequacy.

But American hegemony is afraid. They are afraid because if they left Socialist nations to themselves, they would prove they can survive and, in fact, exceed expectations.

Socialist nations manage to do so even when America kills its leaders, sabotages its factories, and cuts of its ties to the rest of the world.

So the imperial core grasps at any failure it can find, because if they did not do so, its interests would be overthrown.

So they will never ‘let it fail’, because in doing so, it would prove its superiority.

[7pleiades7]

Illusions, (Detail), (before 1901), by Henry Brown Fuller (American, 1867 – 1934), oil on canvas, 70 3/8 x 45 1/8 in (178.6 x 114.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

[segamascott]

erika kirk being handed the golden opportunity to be the face of conservatives for the rest of her life and then fumbling it instantly by being genuinely unlikable and off-putting will always be funny to me almost as funny as remembering that charlie kirk got shot in the neck and died

[vintagegeekculture]

In the colossal, cathedral sized water tank beneath the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, several heads of Medusa have been used as pillar bases for the past 1.500 years. It is not entirely known where the heads came from, but they were believed to be taken from some other Roman ruin. The heads are upside down or sideways to inhibit the power of the Gorgon Medusa's gaze.

The water tank's existence was forgotten for hundreds of years, despite being beneath the Hagia Sophia. When it was rediscovered, explorers found fish inside of it.

[labelleangel]

I left an emotionally abusive relationship of 4.5 years only 3 months ago. Then I started casually dating someone shortly afterward, who I felt really connected with and attached to, but sadly that ended too just yesterday. Two breakups in less than 3 months is throwing me through such a doozy I need to be celibate for a while 😮‍💨

[simaalsaig95]

Palestinian embroidery on wedding handkerchief. Front and back.

[sovietpostcards]

Picking radishes in the Kuril sovkhoz on island Iturup (USSR, 1955)

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, “Don’t Hesitate”, Devotions