Lost_Paradise_

Just your average Halsey loving, queer Scorpio who randomly comes up with dark poems, rants about mental health, and obsesses over the smallest things possible✌️

[eliminated]

[inthenameofloveforthesakeofpower]

HALSEY for ABOUT-FACE

[freddieardley]

Photographed by Freddie Ardley

[lost--paradise]

Peace and serenity all eternity long

[luckykrys-deactivated20140128]

“Anne Bonny and Mary Read were pirates, as renowned for their ruthlessness as for their gender, and during their short careers challenged the sailors’ adage that a woman’s presence on shipboard invites bad luck.”

Sculpture by Erik Christianson.

[thecreach]

I’m not entirely sure that the statue really needed to have a tit out.

[luckykrys-deactivated20140128]

How dare women try to have nipples.

[4rfvbgt56yhn-deactivated2014040]

Actually I’ve seen this before and I can tell you— it’s because these women were bad ass pirates and when they killed someone they’d expose one or both breasts so that when their victim died, (s)he knew that they were killed by a woman.

[koresoteirass]

ACTUALLY Anne Bonny purposely wore loose fitting clothes and displayed her breasts openly at all times during battle - mainly because men were distracted by them, and she took pleasure in killing said men while they were too busy staring at her breasts. Mary Read dressed mainly as a man (after posing as her deceased brother, Mark, for the entirety of her childhood) and both ladies cross-dressed from time to time, hopping between ships. They were known as the ‘fierce hell cats’ due to their ferocious tempers, and were key elements to Captain ‘Calico Jack’ Rackham’s crew - they were the only two known female pirates in the Golden Age of Caribbean piracy. IN FACT, when the ship was captured by the British Navy, Anne and Mary were the ONLY TWO pirates who fought while the males of the crew hid - they were all tried to be hung as pirates but Bonny and Read were both pregnant and were pardoned.

Calico Jack was a lover to Bonny, and as he was to be hung, Bonny’s final words to him were, “Had you fought like a man, you need not be hung like a dog.” Bonny and Read were possibly two of the most badass fucking pirates and they were FEMALE. The more you know. 

[jennytrout]

And on top of all that, exposed breasts have a long and storied history of symbolism in art. They mean all sorts of things. The sculptor may have chosen to expose her left breast specifically to denote her courage–her heart is exposed–or to evoke comparison to Amazon warriors, who cut off their right breasts.

Titties are complex in art.

[primulaceas]

Eileen Myles, "The Irony of the Leash" from I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

[krispiecake]

ultraviolet + infrared images of Pluto, Venus, Mercury and Mars by hubble

[lost--paradise]

this is so fucking cool omg

[anxietyproblem]

[queenofbadlands]

@halsey: I feel like most of my *trouble* in this industry is rooted in the fact that I’m hilarious and no one understands it because it is so deliciously dry delivered.

[lost--paradise]

I am so afraid of ending up alone

[meineluft]

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

Neil Gaiman, Stardust (via meineluft)

[extramadness]

[anxietyproblem]

[why-did-you-just-lie-to-mcgee]

New York City when it became official

[deactivated-this-account-deacti]

I ended up having a really interesting conversation with some people at the bus stop today. They were getting out of some sort of ‘clean and sober’ meeting and had starting saying how they were so bored because they didn’t have anything to do, and had to stay at home because all their old friends would pull them back. So I said something like, ‘So this is the time to do all the stuff your parents told you they didn’t have money/time for!’ “Whatcha mean?” “You know, like when you were five and you REALLY wanted to have that toy or do that thing and you were like, ‘Please mom please I gotta have this I gotta go do this’ and they went ‘Hell no you think I’m paying for that do you want to goddamn EAT?’ “ And this light went on in their eyes. The lady is going to go check thrift stores for an Easybake Oven and I told her about Wilton cake decorating classes. The dude is going to Griffith Park and ride horses, because, ‘I always wanted to be a cowboy, and you can’t drink when you’re on a horse ‘cause you’ll fucking die!’ Fuck it. This is what being an adult is. Sure it’s bills and work and relationships, but damn it, it’s also time to do the things you LIKE. I signed up for a free class/lecture on Water Gardens. I’m going. It’s time.

[ruthfully]

Jill. Jill you are wonderful.

[lost--paradise]

Do you ever look up and experience the world upside down? I want you to look at everything that is lost. Touch it. Then let it slide through your fingers like broken promises.

[lost--paradise]

racing thoughts

[lost--paradise]

My hands flying through the notes of lost melodies in which i find a moment of peace where they hit a broken chord. The sound of loss is ever present but i can't hear it through the voice of that which will never be again.