An Inner Meaning Almost Expressed

Arts and letters and pretty things. 30s, she/her, married to @theinfernaldesiremachine, overeducated, queer. Sometimes I write things; sometimes I give writing advice, upon request. If you prefer cute animals and silly things, find me at @roofermadness. All genders and ages welcome.

[matchinacrocus]

Fairy Tale Queeretellings (Master Post)

New wine in old bottles: contemporary tales of girl-meets-girl.

Dancing (The Twelve Dancing Princesses)

Sleeping (Sleeping Beauty)

Glass (Cinderella)

Garden (Rapunzel)

Sirènes (The Little Mermaid)

[parmandil]

Happy Opera Pride! 🌈🌈🌈 Der Rosenkavalier (Robert Carsen, 2017) Don Carlo (Emilio Sagi, 2016) L'incoronazione di Poppea (Jan Lauwers, 2018) Adelaide di Borgogna (Arnaud Bernard, 2023) Platée (Jetske Mijnssen, 2023) Benamor (Christof Loy, 2026) Alcina (Robert Carsen, 2021) Champion (James Robinson, 2023) Ariodante (Robert Carsen, 2023) Les Pêcheurs de perles (Timothy Nelson, 2015) Der Rosenkavalier (Josef Ernst Köpplinger, 2021) Arabella (Tobias Kratzer, 2021)

+ bonus Les Brigands (Barrie Kosky, 2024):

[1264doghouse]

Steamboat in a Cornfield- John Hartford

[gatheringbones]

minnie bruce pratt, from sinister wisdom issue 122: How Can A Woman Who Is With A Trans Man Call Herself A Lesbian? spring 2024

[desert-love]

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE! “Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.” - William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 - 23 April 1616)

[fravery]

by artist JB Cornish

[sadkoesque]

Luisa Miller, Giuseppe Verdi (1849). prod. Walter Pagliaro (2011)

[buckpussy]

Julia Dragović. CBR Building (1970), designed by C. Brodzki, M. Lambrichs. Bruxelles, Belgium

[random-brushstrokes]

Oscar Droege - Birch Trees in a Storm (1930)

[fravery]

Mark Grantham (Canadian, b.1966)

"Exquisite Timing (South Park, Halifax),"

2024 Acrylic on board

[charlesoberonn]

Besides it being extremely cool that they got their own special eclipse, there's also something very funny about the Artemis II astronauts using the cheap disposable cardboard eclipse glasses on their 4 billion dollar moon mission.

[extra-vertebrae]

A collection of elephant studies from a bit ago.

[dailyclassicart]

Eyvind Earle - "Path in the Snow"

[heartclef]

NEW EARTH PHOTO JUST DROPPED FROM ARTEMIS II

[thesoldiersminute]

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu dir. Céline Sciamma | 2019

[amuseoffyre]

Robert Louis Stevenson buttering up Thomas Hardy to try and persuade him to write an adventure book :D

Of course, I am not so dull as to ask you to desert your walk; but could you not, in one novel, to oblige a sincere admirer, and to enrich his shelves with a beloved volume, could you not, and might you not, cast your characters in a mould a little more abstract and academic (dear Mrs. Pennyman had already, among your other work, a taste of what I mean), and pitch the incidents, I do not say in any stronger, but in a slightly more emphatic key — as it were an episode from one of the old (so-called) novels of adventure ? I fear you will not; and I suppose I must sighingly admit you to be right. And yet, when I see, as it were, a book of Tom Jones handled with your exquisite precision and shot through with those side-lights of reflection in which you excel, I relinquish the dear vision with regret. Think upon it.

In multiple letters to other people, RLS complained that no one wrote the kind of adventure book he liked and that he wished people would write more stuff like Treasure Island, because he can't read his own work for pleasure.