thrice blessed

Alex(ander) 24, he/him, trans man ☀♒︎ | ☾♒︎ | ↗♊︎ here for good art

[nchntd]

In the club

[vacuously-true]

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

[dailyclassicart]

Howard Pyle - "The Garden Behind the Moon" (1895)

[dailyclassicart]

Gustav Marx - "Party on a boat in the Garden" (1883)

[constanzarte]

Herbert James Draper, Flying Fish (1910)

[dailyclassicart]

Edmund Blair Leighton - "The Elopement" (1893)

[bloodbroox]

As I fix you in the gaze of my one unblinking eye

Do I terrify?

prints🍂

[lexelot64]

this isnt meant to be morbid, but i hope one of my descendants keeps my journals and looks after them once im gone. id want at least one person to read them and know who i was and what i have lived, maybe in the hopes of making someone feel less alone in their own struggles. but ideally, i would want the journals to be heirlooms, precious testimonies; a resource of information that can provide a mirror to the reader's own experiences and a well of inspiration - to aspire to do better than i did.

but most importantly i hope my handwriting is legible to anyone other than me /lh

[lexelot64]

why am i only interested in things i cant make money from

[beastliness]

hate it when the people who I love are suffering due to circumstances beyond my control 👎 there should be a sea monster that I can slay to fix the problem

[pocket-deer-belly]

i hate that being fat is dangerous not for any of the reasons people think but because the medical field just stops giving a shit about you. yeah sorry we haven't tested this medicine on people with your body size so we might underdose you. yeah sorry we don't train our surgeons on people like you so you have to change your body to accommodate them. yeah sorry we don't make medical equipment for people of your weight. yeah sorry our doctors train for like a decade but never have to contend with the fact that a fat person might not be suffering from being fat but from a real medical problem. yeah sorry your medical issues will go unaddressed until you become small enough for us to care and they will get worse in that time

[pocket-deer-belly]

and then statistics show that fat people die more so it's gotta be cause they're fat right not for any other reasons it's just cause they're fat so clearly being fat is unhealthy

[dailyclassicart]

James Tissot - "The Farewells" (1871)

[ozempicofficial]

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

[iliothermia]

Mycenaean Boyfriends

[iliothermia]

Since I saw a little confusion on who these boys are

[lexelot64]

started rewatching peaky blinders even tho each season becomes slightly worse than the last lmao. only bc i love the setting so much.

upon this second watch it seems to me that the story is a lot less about the Shelby family as a complex web of people with diverging goals and a lot more about Thomas manipulating his family to help him further his goals. that is to say, even though they do spend some time on other family members, they dont feel important to the main plot bc they often have no means (or no interest) to challenge thomas' ambitions. i guess i wish there was more family drama lol?, but really i think the story wouldve been more interesting to me if it was about the family as a whole as opposed to its head. sure, a patriarchal structure, as was the norm in that period, demands the family head to be in a hierarchical position at the top, but the show runs with this unquestioningly and imo to its own detriment.

anyway. im not sure its a show that has aged well, but i guess the nostalgia is hitting me now

[constanzarte]

Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, by Peter Paul Rubens

[dickgraysonsptsd]

i think MORE characters should be rape survivors. i think more characters should be csa survivors. i think more characters should be dv survivors. i think strong and noble and attractive and charming and brilliant characters with indomitable spirits should be survivors. i think the most powerful characters in the world should be survivors. i think characters who are cultural icons should be survivors. i think victims and survivors should see ourselves in the most admirable and beloved characters around! i think we should be protagonists!!!

[dickgraysonsptsd]

#‘it’s so unnecessary’ . okay . god yea this one drives me CRAZY. people will yap all day long about how it's "unnecessary" to make a character a survivor like do you think it was necessary for any of us to be abused or raped irl? was it narratively essential? did it teach the audience an important lesson? why do we, who have to justify our experiences and existences and reactions all the time in real life, also have to justify why we should exist in fiction? people act so repulsed by the thought of us. i've really fully and truly had enough of that. there is nothing so uniquely disgusting or repulsive or unspeakable about our victimhood or our survival that justifies this obsession with keeping the reality of our existence hidden

[389]

La Carte Blanche (The Blank Signature), 1965 René Magritte