foppery and whim

Alex • 30 • NSW, Australia

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

Evening seemed to have struck an equilibrium. The sky and the water were one luminous gray. The woods altogether black.

– Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

[polkadotmotmot]

Nattun Kongmalikunkaew - Emotion of Fear, 2020

[loxonstag]

"By then, when journalists asked me if I had become a brand, it was no longer credible to feign innocence. I was clearer, however, about why being a brand sat so uneasily with me. Good brands are immune to fundamental transformation. Conceding to having become one at age thirty would have meant foreclosing on what I saw as my prerogative to change, evolve, and hopefully improve. It would have locked me into performing this particular version of me, indefinitely."

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger

[loxonstag]

passages

[bodleianlibs]

This animated illustration depicts Alexander the Great’s horse Bucephalus, made up of 54 or so birds, beasts and fish.

It’s from a 1544 manuscript held by the John Rylands Library in Manchester (Armenian MS 3, fol. 42v), and was in our recent exhibition Armenia: Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture.

[romanticswamp]

Thalapathi (1991)

[estuschan]

Soulstober Day 18: Gold

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Avard Woolaver

[the-evil-clergyman]

Crows Flying at Sunset by Shibata Zeshin (1888)

[huariqueje]

Summer landscape with a thatched farm on a hilltop - Laurits Andersen Ring, 1872 - 1933.

Danish , 1854-1933

Oil on canvas, 25 x 40 cm 9.8 x 15.7 in.

[pilmyeol]

listen to the wind blow btw. and also watch the sun rise

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“The tenderness of winter always stays with me, never to be lost.”

— Li Qingzhao, tr. by Jiaosheng Wang, from “The Tenderness of Winter,”

[thejackalhasarrived]

DIL SE (1998), dir. Mani Ratnam

[zegalba]

Lava pouring into the ocean ph. Andrew Studer

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Almost a herd: my collection of vintage deer is prancing along.

[loxonstag]

"He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves."

- Hermann Hesse, Demian

[despazito]

I could function in a society that had an actual nightlife that isn't synonymous with just clubbing. Where are the night markets what if I want to go to the library at midnight