Oisters

Back at it. Expect some pretty things and some pretty gay things. Denver, CO, USA

[oisters]

[oisters]

Queue frequency has moved from 8 to 10. Here I come babyyyyyyy

[oisters]

Pinning this back on top of my blog for reasons 😬

[memories-of-ancients]

Enameled gold ring with an emerald, Italy, 16th century

from The Louvre

[gemville]

Emerald and Diamond Rigid Bracelet; Russian Crown Jewels

[oneheadtoanother]

[themakeupbrush]

the fact that the internet cannot tell me who this Cannes attendee is is pathetic.

ETA: His name is Pratham Singh Khandpur. Thank you to @bitteralmondbutter for helping ID!

[lilacsinthedooryard]

Stanley Spencer (U.K. 1891-1959)

Landscape, Gloucestershire     1940

[joeinct]

Chrysler Corporation, Photo by Margaret Bourke-White, 1932

[status-quo-hater]

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

[status-quo-hater]

Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM

[lovelyballetandmore]

Nicolas Klein | Mikhailovsky Theatre

[dance-world]

Tommaso Spadaccino - Opéra national de Paris - photo by Julien Benhamou

[fleurdulys]

The Violin Student, Paris - Stephen Seymour Thomas

1891

[artist-tanner]

Gate in Tangier, 1915, Henry Ossawa Tanner

[metmuseum]

Mars. ca. 1605. Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/461261

[ganymedesrocks]

Jean Limosin (ca. 1580– 1646), partly gilt enamel on copper, Limoges, France, ca. 1605

[huariqueje]

The Barista - Mark Draisey

British , b. 1962 -

Oil on panel , 61 x 46 cm.

[showings]

The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner had he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom, or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment face, and are up against a force majeure. Their art is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one mood, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting. It is all wrong, he thought, to imagine paradise as a never-changing state of bliss. It will probably, on the contrary, turn out to be, in the true spirit of God, an incessant up and down, a whirlpool of change. Only you may yourself, by that time, have become one with God, and have taken a liking to it.

Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), “The Monkey” | Seven Gothic Tales

[peardresser]

paula is dead now

[hoovesandfloorpaws]