🦢

When this dance is over, we all know our beauty will die.

[odile-on-melancholy]

BITTER RUIN IS BACK. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

[avichigda]

I wish blonde people were real...

[bevsi]

that’s all 

[kleefkruid]

I was looking at seagull stickers for my instagram story and I came across seagulls saying supportive things like "You matter! <3" and that's the first time I've gone "He would not fucking say that" over an animal. These birds are fueled by spite. They would yell slurs if they could. Not even the right ones. A seagull would call an old lady a faggot they don't care

[prideprejudce]

that one scene in devil wears prada where Andy says that she would have never betrayed anyone like Miranda betrayed Nigel at the end in order to save herself and her position on top in the fashion industry and Miranda Priestly is quiet for a beat before she whispers in that lilt whispy voice ”you already did”…..that was a better written psychologically dynamic scene between two characters than most modern hero/villain scenes you see today in cinema

[prideprejudce]

the devil wears prada walked so shows like hannibal and succession could run no I won’t be taking any questions

[prideprejudce]

also i wonder if the writers for this ““chick flick”” movie knew that they were going to be creating one of the best written female antagonist characters that cinema has ever seen like Miranda Priestly was completely ruthless but also nuanced and sympathetic that gave her character layers in a way that still floors me watching the movie today

[prideprejudce]

Meryl you were absolutely insane for this

[ampervadasz]

[sweetsigyn]

I know it’s on purpose but still every dead choreographer is spinning in their grave

[anais-ninja-bitch]

this is so brilliant but how many times did they just crash and send each other ass over teakettle during rehearsal

[labelleizzy]

Omfg this is PRISTINE

[kshandra]

As several others have already said in the notes, this is Jerome Robbins’ “Mistake Waltz,” and it is GLORIOUS. And so much respect for the dancers, because having to do something intentionally wrong is frequently harder than trying to do it right.

[bangarangjames]

[letterful]

btw archive dot org is SUCH a treasury when it comes to out-of-print poetry anthologies… i am having the time of my life, truly ❣️

[letterful]

some of my bookmarks:

against forgetting: twentieth-century poetry of witness,

postwar polish poetry (edited by czesław miłosz!),

poems for the millennium: the university of california book of modern & postmodern poetry vol 1 + vol 2,

essential pleasures: a new anthology of poems to read aloud,

poems that make grown women cry + poems that make grown men cry,

the oxford book of short poems,

a book of women poets from antiquity to now,

first loves: poets introduce the essential poems that capitivated and inspired them (so many literary greats!),

the poets’ grimm: 20th century poems from grimm fairy tales,

disenchantments: an anthology of modern fairy tale poetry,

arthur, the greatest king: an anthology of modern arthurian poems,

chapters into verse: poetry in english inspired by the bible,

killer verse: poems of murder and mayhem,

poetry in medicine: an anthology of poems about doctors, patients, illness, and healing,

a mind apart: poems of melancholy, madness, and addiction,

friendship poems + marriage poems + motherhood poems + fatherhood poems,

billy collins’ poetry 180 + 180 more,

good poems + good poems for hard times

the penguin book of… modern african poetry + irish poetry + japanese verse + hebrew verse + love poetry + sick verse (sic!) 

[todaysbird]

[detailedart]

Moonlights and their reflection on the sea, details

Henry Pether (1828-1865)

[designed-forlife]

[bukomoon]

does anyone else ever get this feeling, whenever you go to a body of water, something euphoric just wells up inside of you??? like… the way that sea foam tickles your skin, or how the first cold splash invigorates you?? or how about when you dive down to the bottom, and you look up just to watch the sunlight shimmer through the surface???? OOOHHH or maybe that feeling you get when the wave beneath you begins to recede, and you dig your toes and fingers into the sand while watching the water race past you?? and don’t get me STARTED on aquarium visits—

[aeondeug]

@edderkopper

[projectiondepartment]

thinking about something my professor said this morning about the writing of poetry as the act of enshrining a moment + the act of care in the arrangement of the words...something about his use of the word enshrinement -> something precious, worthy of worship, kept safe. the things a poem can do for both its writer & reader not in the sense of utility but just keeping a moment safe. and doing it despite the inadequacies of language

[lvndscpe]

The brave Atlantic | by Mario Gutiérrez

[the-devils-feather]

"As if the Sea should part

And show a further Sea—

And that—a further—and the Three

But a presumption be—

Of Periods of Seas—

Unvisited of Shores—

Themselves the Verge of Seas to be—

Eternity—is Those—"

— Emily Dickinson, "As If the Sea Should Part"

Oceans brought solace to Sandra’s soul—that’s what she says. Oceans—that’s all she can talk about these days.....

....She won. She drowned. To her heart’s content, she drowned. After all the struggle, she was in union with the sea and nothing felt better than salty taste of victory.

Arina Guha @the-shooting-star , excerpt from "Á la mer".

[transman-pheonixwright]

I'm a binary trans man in a nonbinary way

[clockworkbibliophile]

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.”