[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

She, pure daughter of the sea, her heart has always belonged to the waves;

Paul Valéry, tr. by Hilary Corke, from The Collected Works; “She Only Seems Dead,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I’ve never felt anything like her fingers, they were so light, like butterflies.

Dacia Maraini, tr. by Tim Vode, from “Dreams of Clytemnestra,” wr. c. 1994 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[trulyvincent]

Lan Truong

[puppymother]

in grade 11 i was on the phone w this boy i wanted and i owed him a favour or something so i was like “it can be anything you want” and he was like “anything?” and im like ya thats what i fuckin said and he goes “can you explain to me how a fridge works? like how does it stay cold”

[uwubean]

What’s free to you, Nina?

What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

[anxietyproblem]

[jigglypuffsvevo]

[femalerappers]

[vintagefashionandbeauty]

Life magazine, 1949. Photographed by Nina Leen. (x)

[serafique]

monet’s waterlily’s on a banana canvas. i didn’t start the painting on fruit trend so credits to whoever did

ig: serafique

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i like the sistine chapel ceiling a lot better now that i know it was painted by a gay man who was motivated entirely by spite

[i-should-be-making-homework]

Wait… whaaaaaaaaat? Where can I find the story behind this?!

[dragonimpal67]

Lol, here’s how my art teacher explained it:

The pope went to an artist, saying “We want you to paint the Sistine Chapel”. 

At the time, one did not simply say “No” to the fucking Pope. But this artist really didn’t fucking want to do it. So, clever little cookie goes “Dude I’d love to, but I’m unworthy of such an honor! You know who’s an even better painter? Fucking Michelangelo! Go check him out!” 

So, the Pope trots his little ass over to see Michelangelo and straight up tells him “I want you to paint the Sistine Chapel, and what’s his face said you’re the fucking best in the whole wide world.”

Now, Michelangelo, is one of the few people who would genuinely have been sassy enough to tell the Pope to go fuck himself. Besides, his true passion lies in sculpture, not in painting. Don’t get me wrong, he’s good at it, but he likes sculpting more. And just like the clever cookie artist, he knows that painting the Sistine Chapel is going to be a bitch. But he said yes. Why, you ask?

Pride.

If he turned the pope down, it would be as good as saying he actually wasn’t the bestest in the whole wide world and like fuck he was going to let that stand! So, he spent the next several years painting the Sistine Chapel, bitching about it to anyone who would listen (seriously, the letters that he wrote are fucking gold!), and attaining new levels of pettiness never before seen! 

There are cherubs doing hand signs that were (at the time) the equivalent of flipping the bird. He painted a great big picture of the gates of hell right behind where the Pope’s chair would sit! And so much more!

Michelangelo had exactly zero shits to give by the time he was done painting that fucker.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

someone post the letters & cherubs

[romantic-void]

Those are the cherubs, and in the second picture there are the gates of hell.

The guy on the right, the one with the snake biting his private parts, is actually a cardinal that was angry at Michelangelo!

And, just so you know, all the people in the picture were painted naked. Then, after Michelangelo’s death, the pope listened to the cardinal and he asked to a painter to add the clothes.

[olivescreech]

ALSO; The skin of Saint Bartholemew has Michealangelo’s face on it because he felt as though he was being skinned alive because painting the chapel was such a BITCH

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this man was every level of gay pettiness oh my goodness

[kamikazesoundsociety]

[kamikazesoundsociety]

We have always been here. 

Vintage MLM love photography post

Vintage WLW love photography post

Please add more if you have them <3 

[reddietrashmouth]

❤️

[bigyoikes]

Pictures from back in the gay

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

GAYMAZING :D

[michael2618-blog]

I know this is a long post - but omg it gave me feels. Can you imagine how intense their love had to be to survive how homophobic it was back then. 😭😭😭

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 Love is more powerful than anything in any universe <3

[lonequixote]

Vincent van Gogh

Vase with Irises (detail)

(via @lonequixote)

[selfaffirmation]

[looky--loo-blog]

[1dietcokeinacan]

Lan Truong

[fairyw1ngs]

[ripe]

The Phyllomedusa Bicolor (Giant Monkey Frog) covers itself in a skin secretion to avoid drying out in the sun.

(source)

[holewiki]

it’s sunscreen babey!