nme

ive had this for almost ten years. these r my sacred records...

[6thlovelanguage-deactivated2020]

Keith Haring Journals, February 15, 1989

[venustapolis]

The Garden behind the Moon (Howard Pyle, 1895)

[valtsv]

we all talk about doing it scared doing it alone doing it weird etc. but the the hideously awful truth is that you also often have to do it stupid

[birdcagesandbutterflies]

now that i am a real adult i am starting to realise. media lied to me about the availability of rooftops to go hang out on. every day i wish i could be hanging out on a rooftop somewhere looking cool as fuck

[mousidy]

talking to people while holding a beverage is awesome because you don't have to know what to do with your hands and when you don't know what to do with your face you can just take a sip

[punkyboysblog]

Bruh what if we lived together 😳😳😳and had a garden😳😳😳😳

[isabelopaque]

april will be a good month [staring into the sink mirror eyebags prominent the most upset person youve ever seen]

[fairycosmos]

absolutely criminal how falling into bad habits is the easiest thing in the world while developing positive habits feels like fighting a literal war

[just-art5]

Peder Mønsted - Sunset over a forest lake, 1895 (details)

[januaryhoney]

The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

[suispiria]

Anne Magill

[neshamama]

i love a good t shirt

[arcanewraith]

Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne 

[vlindervin7]

All I can think abt is that one quote that basically just describes that you can’t be your true self in your native language bc there’s too much emotional attachment, but that second languages allow speakers to be truly free with their words

[vlindervin7]

“Some things could only be written in a foreign language; they are not lost in translation, but conceived by it. Foreign verbs of motion could be the only ways of transporting the ashes of familial memory. After all, a foreign language is like art—an alternative reality, a potential world. »

- Svetlana Boym, “Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky”

“Bilinguals overwhelmingly report that they feel like different people in different languages. It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. (…) But, it first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents.”

- Love in Translation by Lauren Collins from the New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2016

[effyeffa]

when ilya kaminski said in an interview “even the shape of my face changed when i began to live inside the english language”

[dollstar]

[hickeygenderarchive]

st. george and the dragon (1908-9) - briton rivière / the vigil (1884) - john pettie / vanitas still-life (1705) - evert collier / david garrick as richard iii (1745) - william hogarth / micro sff stories tweet

[siegesquirrel42]

controversial opinion perhaps but I really do think the Game of Thrones finale being as mediocre as it was and utterly destroying any cultural power that franchise held literally overnight was, in hindsight, a net benefit to society