the heart of a swan is a swan

18 | they/she

[thevintagethimble]

Garter (one of a pair) French, 18th century. Silk plain weave with silk tambour work and embroidery on silk ribbon. | ↳ MFA

[mercurygray]

“Ma devise est de vous aime/ et de ne jamais changer”

My motto is to love you and to never change.

[geryone]

Pink, Sylvie Baumgartel

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID: Every time I remember you, I alter you. ]

[podencos]

I love people who aren’t part of an altercation but still feel the need to scream. I’m not even joking. They remain in contact w a primal part of the body that the rest of us have lost

[podencos]

When someone completely uninvolved in the car accident across the street from them is screaming this is what I’m reminded of

[jueki]

Strawberry Shortcakes 2006 ‘ストロベリーショートケイクス’ Directed by Hitoshi Yazaki

[nevver]

Jude Sutton

[julia-famula]

grassy grass

[paper-horses]

i am here again

[horsesinmydreams]

Ida Madrigal

[holespoles]

Mika Hirasa “A bird tells Spring has come”

[dozydawn]

The Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet curtain call, 2019.

Anna Rose O’Sullivan and Marcelino Sambe.

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

milk-thistle is an example of a word where the tongue barely moves… basilica is an example of a word where the movement involved is like a seesaw. opium as a word is circular to say. to say a word like violence involves a bit of a forced pause in the mouth where the o connecting the syllables is. etymologists trace the word’s history, poets feel the word’s impact, singers listen to the word’s musicality, linguists tell the word to go this way and that way, and the word is gracious to all in return

[paper-horses]

i want to kiss you

[jinxpologist]

i love shakespeare academics. i fucking love them. there’s this one guy who wrote an essay about how claudius is actually possibly innocent, or at least didn’t kill the king by putting poison in his ear, and the ghost was in part a hallucination (it’s a really interesting essay with many good points and i’m using it in my final synthesis for this class) but. BUT. some guy read it on a train. and he lost it.

this guy literally said this essay drove him to “insanity”. he went off the fucking rails about it so much so that he wrote a book over the course of EIGHTEEN YEARS about what ACTUALLY happened in hamlet and dedicated it to the guy who wrote the essay as a big “fuck you”. and that exchange between them is literally inescapable when reading about the play today. here’s an excerpt from the beginning:

this is like. the equivalent of someone making a well-thought out discourse post and then out of nowehere someone reblogging it with thousands of words of pure furious rambling about why op is wrong YEARS LATER. this bullshit started a hundred years ago, literally in the middle of the first world fucking war, and i STILL cannot escape it while reading a book on hamlet published in fucking 2000 because it’s so iconic. and i love it.

[pyaasa]

I’m going to scream. Pushback on the narrative that climate breakdown can be averted by individual decisions centres around the fact that NORMAL PEOPLE do not contribute to a significant amount of carbon emissions cos the average NORMAL PERSON emits 7 tons of CO2 a year. Not Taylor fucking Swift who has emitted over 8000 tons of emissions this year SO FAR. Her CO2 emissions from private jet use alone are equivalent to that of TWO THOUSAND normal people. We absolutely should be blaming individuals if those particular individuals are emitting two thousand people’s worth of emissions.

[pyaasa]

“We should be addressing structural issues” my brother in Christ widespread private jet use is a structural issue. Celebrity culture and the extravagant lifestyle that comes with it is a structural issue. These are whole industries that are massively impacting climate breakdown but because Taylor happens to be the most egregious case her stans want to pretend it’s not a problem. Stan culture really is a disease

[pyaasa]

[firstfullmoon]

Albert Garcia, “August Morning” [ID in alt text]

[precision-instrument]

I know we’ve all seen “everyone is beautiful and no one is horny” but I would like to propose the corollary “everything is pornographic and nothing is erotic”

[leohtttbriar-deactivated2025082]

But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.

The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information, confusing it with its opposite, the pornographic. But pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represent the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feeling. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves.

"Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," Audre Lorde

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

might be an outlier here but when i smell my neighbors smoking weed i just smile and nod its like adjacent to hearing christmas carolers for me… good tidings and joy unto you brother

[gruffle1]

Honestly I don’t care if people do it. If they are I just walk away and go somewhere else l. I just can’t stand the smell because I brings back bad memories.

Kind of why I wish people would write some Eddie Munson fics when the reader doesn’t smoke pot, or at least make it a option.

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

okay