Me and my crippling obsessions

She/her, Pretty hands paintings, wlw, cottagewhore, velvet underground

[officialyobsessedwithmoony]

Bondage but still coquette at heart

[jemilies]

[officialyobsessedwithmoony]

What do you mean I can’t bite you? How else am I supposed to show you love and satisfy my possessive nature???

[geeneelee]

Teeth are bullshit. What do you mean you’re decaying. Get a fucking grip. You’re a bone now act like it. You don’t see my finger bones decaying from jerking it too much now do you

[geeneelee]

If I were tumblr famous this would be a smash hit

[officialyobsessedwithmoony]

!!!

[yirryyanya]

The veil & the gaze.

#KateBush

[officialyobsessedwithmoony]

late stage capitalism is at it again

[panteneprovcommercial]

I Can't Love You How You Want Me To

Girl Against God - Florence + The Machine / Plainwater: Essays and Poetry - Anne Carson / Square - Mitski / Wishbone - Richard Siken

[the-most-sublime-fool]

hey do people know about this painting??? because it hangs in the art gallery in my city and it makes me a little insane every time i see it

anyway it's called the victory of faith (1891) and it's by saint george hare

**actually, i'm editing this to add a closeup of their faces too:

[capturing-earths-beauty]

The Victory of Faith (painting) - Wikipedia

Here's a little info on Wikipedia, but not much. Kobena Mercer is an art historian who has a modern view on the piece that would probably be informative but I can't find where to read it.

This page talks about the picture frame which is original to the piece. Even the label on the back is stunning.

I also found an engraving print made of the original.

. Engraving. . Public collection,

Please share what info you find below.

[mylittleredgirl]

the hands…..

[anaryllis]

someone else mentioned this in the replies, but i couldn't find it on a reblog - forgive me if i'm being repetitive

i'd hazard a guess and say this is meant to depict saints perpetua and felicity. perpetua was a noblewoman in carthage, and felicity was another young woman who had been enslaved (not by perpetua to my understanding - i think they didnt know each other prior to imprisonment). both women were arrested and put to death for their christian beliefs. before their death, they kissed each other.

i think it'd be a stretch to say much conclusive about the real historical women as lesbians - they had very limited interactions per perpetua's account - but as far as a cultural touchstone of women sharing intimacy, its definitely very meaningful

the main thing i knew them for is that we have this information from perpetua's autobiography - rare to have primary sources from women that early in history!

if this IS of them - there's definitely some uh, choices being made to inherently depict a tunisian noblewoman as white, but, not unexpected of the 1890s

heres some other lovely art of them!

(no sources b/c i found these mostly on catholic info sites - if people have the art historical sources that'd be great!)

[soapdispensersalesman]

I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

[zevveli]

StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.

[redpandarascal]

stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.

[musashi]

bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.

[lesbiassoon]

mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:

The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."

The Useless Web

Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)

Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."

Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."

[newyorkcitywater]

done with being the bigger person im about to start cleaving bitches in twain

[skiffst]

i love when academics are like this

from the translator's introduction in my copy of antigone... she's his blorbo.... <3

[syndician]

“A great man springs from the mass and is carried by circumstances: the mass of women is at the fringes of history, and for each of them, circumstances are an obstacle and not a springboard. To change the face of the world, one has first to be firmly anchored to it; but women firmly rooted in society are those subjugated by it; unless they are designated for action by divine right - and in this case they are shown to be as capable as men - the ambitious woman and the heroine are strange monsters. Only since women have begun to feel at home on this earth has a Rosa Luxemburg or a Mme Curie emerged. They brilliantly demonstrate that it is not women's inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.”

Simone De Beauvoir

[fellshish]

aziraphale thinking they’re in a jane austen romance novel vs crowley thinking they’re in a richard curtis romcom is funny but there’s SO many more ways they could’ve gone with that. greek myths vs k-drama! emily brönte vs the twilight movies! shakespeare vs ao3 slash fic! Imagine the miscommunications

[americiumam]

reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to

[moonstoast]

@rbhvleo // roberto ferri // mothering by ainslie hogarth // rainer maria rilke // ? // planet of love by richard siken // a self portrait in letters by anne sexton // indian summer by ron hicks

[brbcryingintheclub-deactivated2]

James “The Archer” Potter

Sirius “You’re On Your Own, Kid” Black

Remus “this is me trying” Lupin

Peter “Getaway Car” Pettigrew

Lily “Karma” Evans

Dorcas “mad woman” Meadowes

Marlene “Dress” McKinnon

Mary “The Man” Macdonald

Regulus “Anti-Hero” Black

Evan “Cruel Summer” Rosier

Barty “Don’t Blame Me” Crouch Jr.

Pandora “State Of Grace” Lovegood

[a-little-bit-pre-raphaelite]

Once in a dream I saw the flowers

That bud and bloom in Paradise;

More fair they are than waking eyes

Have seen in all this world of ours.

And faint the perfume-bearing rose,

And faint the lily on its stem,

And faint the perfect violet

Compared with them.

I heard the songs of Paradise:

Each bird sat singing in his place;

A tender song so full of grace

It soared like incense to the skies.

Each bird sat singing to his mate

Soft cooing notes among the trees:

The nightingale herself were cold

To such as these.

I saw the fourfold River flow,

And deep it was, with golden sand;

It flowed between a mossy land

With murmured music grave and low.

It hath refreshment for all thirst,

For fainting spirits strength and rest:

Earth holds not such a draught as this

From east to west.

The Tree of Life stood budding there,

Abundant with its twelvefold fruits;

Eternal sap sustains its roots,

Its shadowing branches fill the air.

Its leaves are healing for the world,

Its fruit the hungry world can feed,

Sweeter than honey to the taste

And balm indeed.

I saw the gate called Beautiful;

And looked, but scarce could look, within;

I saw the golden streets begin,

And outskirts of the glassy pool.

Oh harps, oh crowns of plenteous stars,

Oh green palm-branches many-leaved—

Eye hath not seen, nor ear hath heard,

Nor heart conceived.

I hope to see these things again,

But not as once in dreams by night;

To see them with my very sight,

And touch, and handle, and attain:

To have all Heaven beneath my feet

For narrow way that once they trod;

To have my part with all the saints,

And with my God.

- Paradise: in a Dream, 1865, Christina Rossetti

detail of Garden of Flowers, 1917, Gustav Klimt

In Memoriam Elizabeth II (21st April 1926 - 8th September 2022)