Dappled Moonlight and Midnight Flutters

21-she/her-queer Student of Art History This blog is a safe space. Please come to me if you’re ever in need of a listener. Kisses, Ren

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friendly fucking reminder that a curved sword has greater cutting power because the force of the swing is distributed across a smaller impact area. a straight sword is better for thrusting

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Photography by Iness Rychlik.

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il rito - Roberto Ferri, 2016.

Roberto Ferri - Sigillum.

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PANDORA — THOMAS KENNINGTON

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Ixion Chained in Tartarus (detail from 1824) by Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol

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Takuboku Ishikawa, from “Rather than Cry,” featured in “The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse,”

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Adventuring Beth

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the abduction of psyche/ love and psyche

by william adolphe bouguereau

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Dominique Louis Féréol Papety - The odalisque (detail)

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Cristina Coral

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Soft marble sculptures.

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Lacrima Notturna (Detail), 2019, by Roberto Ferri.

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“…wild things in the darkness of her eyes.”

— Ralph Hodgson, from Eve, And Other Poems (1913); “The Gypsy Girl,”

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A. J Hamilton “Lilith".

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Death and the Maiden 1900 (detail)

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"We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save."

-Erich Fromm; To Have or To Be?