to love, and to be loved

“‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”

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be gentle with each other’s hearts

[conservethis]

MRW I have to explain what microfilm is to my student workers in the library

[upennmanuscripts]

When I got started in medieval studies, so many years ago now it’s almost embarrassing, my manuscript courses used printed microfilm for reading assignments. Good times. 

[goblinkisser]

When your otp is easily versatile

[onlytwitterpics]

[sexycodicology]

What a time to be alive! Hidden fragments, x-rays, technology, science! All this and much more in this super-interesting open access article.

Enjoy!

[polished-to-perfection]

[dailyactress]

Naomi Campbell in W Magazine December 2016 by Steven Klein

[skaodi]

Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2015.

[bestofbarbie]

sailor moon eyeliners 😍

[s1uts-deactivated20250921]

i’m so fucking tired of jeffree star’s embalmed head ass showing up in my youtube suggestions…like cutting through a $5000 bag with a hot knife? really? 

[lsseymiyake]

[renaissance-art]

Andrea Mantegna c. 1497

Parnassus

[zarbon]

[commongayboy-deactivated2018082]

[coolapocalypse]

⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀  ❄ ⠀⠀⠀ Ｓ ＮＯ Ｗ ⠀⠀ Ｋ Ｉ Ｎ Ｇ  ’ Ｓ ⠀ Ｒ Ｏ Ｗ  ⠀⠀⠀ ❄

[penis-hilton]

ok but if this isn’t the most iconic streak of videos in youtube herstory….

[simoncowellilluminati-deactivat]

How did this all happen in two days

[thother]

me in one day

[5000letters]

That I did not say it,  that I swallowed that poison down,  that I was quiet, that I looked towards the ground, that silence and I became very best friends, that I lost my voice,  that I had to,  because you were overwhelming, and demanding and love,  you promised looked like your fists or your raised voice and this is what it is. Your anger and my acquiescence,  your anger and my apology,  your anger and the space that used to hold  the shape of me. That I was my own woman, before you ever got your ugly hands on me.  That I was gruelling fight,  and bare boned knuckles.  That I knew how to roar.  That I’d waged quiet wars,  that I was more strength and backbone than you  would ever understand that I forgot all of these things, because I loved you, because you made me.

Azra.T., “A Comprehensive List of Regrets.”  (via 5000letters)