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Thursday | she/her

[shisasan]

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Rumi

[pb-n-jupiter]

is nate high

[soft-lovely]

all i want is a love letter

[hwhwgwhnwnwbwbwg-deactivated202]

Paris bookstore 1904 by Tavik Frantisek Simon.

[todayontumblr]

Wednesday March 15.

Batten down the hatches: It's The Ides of March.

It's March 15, 44 BC. As many as 60 conspirators, led by Brutus and Cassius, await the arrival of the great Julius Caesar in the Theatre of Pompey for a meeting of the Senate. A mystical seer is among those gathered, and Caesar passes this mysterious figure on his way to the Theatre. Before the point of their meeting, the seer warned Caesar that harm would come to him on the Ides of March. On his way to Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked: "Well, the Ides of March are come", with which he implied that the prophecy had not been fulfilled. "Aye, they are come, but they are not gone," the seer replied, and Caesar continued into the chamber. And the rest, as they say, is history. Well, would you look at that. Today's date is March 15, and you know what that means, Tumblrinas: it must be the #ides of march! Yay!

Naturally, as today is the big day, the #ides of march fandom has gone totally wild for March 15. And can you blame them? It's been a long year, after all. And it is right here you will find a mass of shitposts, memes, polls, and fanart all in tribute to the community's all-time favorite assassination.  

And remember, folks, trust no one. Not even Marcus Brutus x

[julieterbang]

tiksumarin

[perissologist]

ok but i cannot stop thinking about the IMPLICATIONS of the final scene with katya and sofia. katya is an immigrant. she left her homeland with goncharov when she was sixteen. she took on his name, his business, his sins for twenty years. by the end of the movie, everyone she knows and loves outside of goncharov's ring of destruction is either dead or wants nothing more to do with her.

sofia was meant to end katya: her relationship with goncharov, her place in goncharov's business, her life. goncharov let sofia into their lives to make katya jealous, to amplify katya's insecurities so that katya would stay loyal to him. and then we find out that sofia was literally sent to kill them. to end the goncharovs not only in the figurative sense but the literal one.

but she can't do it, so she leaves. now what does katya have left? who is she even anymore? she's not a goncharov; she destroyed that part of her when she betrayed him. she's not ekaterina, the name her mother gave her, the name she bore when she was a scared little girl: that person died a long time ago. this movie is so special because the female side character has her own journey that mirrors the main character's: your old self is dead. who is your new self?

so she goes to paris, to be with sofia. sofia, the woman who was meant to destroy her. and she lets it happen. she lets sofia destroy katya goncharova. her old self is dead. and she is finally free :')

[vanwizard]

okay i will admit i enjoyed these three in the like. one scene they were actually all on screen together.

sofia voice shut up and get the fuck out goncharov, i’m gonna fuck your wife now.

[thyrell]

if i was a medieval peasant and some weird guy from the future tried to give me doritos i would share a stew and beer with him. come man surely these frail dry flatbreads will not nourish you as well as a hearty meal. eat with me

[lessrthanthree]

Hey what's going on in the plaza tonight

[fishsticxz-art]

yo fuck it up lil guy!!!!!

[pb-n-jupiter]

Good luck to everyone taking the SAT today.

[winslowat3am]

✧* Vintage Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker ✧*

[lunamonchtuna]

— José Olivarez, from Citizen Illegal

[pb-n-jupiter]

Actually I think there’s a lot to be said about how social media allows harmful subcommunities to exist.

The point of social medias is not to alienate communities that use them. I understand that; it’s a basic marketing strategy. But at what point does this cross an ethical boundary? At what point are you providing a safe space for hatred and harm to fester? To me, edtwt, radfemblr & the Andrew Tate tiktok pipeline are symptomatic of the same online issue: the prioritization of corporate benefit over human life. Multiple times it has progressed past a reasonably safe boundary.

At least I can be confident that Twitter attempts to crack down on this behavior: frequently you will see “block don’t report,” so something is done on that app, but what about Tumblr? A site that prides itself on being inclusive, with a flourishing radfem community? I know it’s kind of fallen on hard times compared to 2012, but…

Social media companies need to be more considerate of, and caring about, their minority users. Full stop. You’d think they’d figure it out when an entire community idolizes an antisemite because she hates trans women..

[devilmaycry3dantesawakening]

[estrellablogg]

Coffee dates. ☕️