[lousolversons]

If you called your dad he could stop it all. Common People - Pulp

[lifestill]

Along the Coast (1958) dir. Agnès Varda

[covvboytears]

Agnès Varda: ‘I am still alive, I am still curious. I am not a piece of rotting flesh’

[paolo-streito-1264]

Tino Petrelli. Children cross the river using pulleys to go to school in the outskirts of Modena, Italy, 1959.

[unfumble-deactivated20241228]

C'est un sentiment doux à vivre, l'égalité.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019) | title treatment series [18/?]

I see [the movie] as a manifesto about the female gaze. I see this as such a strong opportunity to make new stuff, new images, new narratives. They are such powerful images, and they are so not seen. And you are in charge. You have a strong responsibility. But also, there are so many opportunities to be playful. To embody ideas that matter a lot to myself, but also to a lot of people. I see it as a really great dynamic for creating and also very fun visually. For instance, ask yourself the question of “how do you embody sorority?” The answer being, a long take, a wide shot, of three women in the kitchen with social hierarchy being totally turned around, with the aristocratic women cooking, whereas the maid is an artist and the artist is looking at the maid. And they’re silent. This is such a powerful image, and it’s so easy to make. People are telling me, “Oh, your film is a utopia.” And I’m like, “Yeah, but our utopias are not ideas we have in our minds. They’re not things we wish we were living. They’re rooted in our own experience.” I know about sorority, I know about an all-women world. It’s not a utopia. It’s part of my life. And that’s what I rely on to make these images. — Céline Sciamma

[nuveau-deco]

‘Sea Life’ Chess Set. Designed in 1923 by Max Esser and manufactured by the Meissen Porcelain Factory in Germany.

“In the mid-eighteenth century the Meissen porcelain factory produced several chess sets by sculptor and chief modeler Johann Joachim Kändler (German, 1706–1775). In the 1920s Meissen again began to produce chess sets, among them three designed by Max Esser, known largely at the factory as a modeler of animal figures.”

(Source: philamuseum.org & sothebys.com)

[churchrummagesale]

The small town by the lake

[necrohag]

Caught on a game camera in British Columbia

[lilyandthemoorland]

Edinburgh

[periwinkleaurora]

Mám pocit, že je všechno zahaleno takovou podivnou mlhou. Hustou, nepropustnou, takovou, ve které trávíme čas na place. Nebo slabým stále přítomným oparem, taková ta zastřená obloha, jako při zatmění. Bezčasí. Sluneční paprsky k nám proniknou jen málo.

Události před dvěma měsíci mi připadají vzdálené tak moc, možná tím, že se toho opravdu stalo hodně, i když trávím veškeré dny v práci. Což je ta největší událost, které se mi stala. Ta která mi nejvíce zasáhla do života. A události z půlky října mi přijdou jako kdyby se musely stát včera. Pamatuji, jak jsem se šla projít v listopadu a rozsvěcovali se pouliční lampy, vzduch voněl zimou a já jsem se těšila na Vánoce. Dnes jsem je opět viděla rozsvěcet, nějak mi ta vzpomínka na listopad projela hlavou. Tyto barvy, co jsou na fotkách, jsou podle mě barvami listopadu. I když možná nejsou, listopadové večery mají velmi jedinečnou barvu a atmosféru.

A dnes v půlce aprílu unaveně plynoucí Vltava, modrá, fialová, jarní mlhavý opar, večer pomalu prostupující chlad, prázdné tramvaje. Všechno se probouzí tak nějak líně, město je prázdné, poupata magnolií pořád zavřené. Člověk si vlastně pořád v tomto světe musí vážit maličkostí, toho, že po velmi dlouhé době může jít do knihovny prodloužit si knížku, i když tam naběhne 5 minut před zavírací dobou a v tu danou minutu si asi nemá možnost to vychutnat.

[labelleizzy]

Blessed Imbolc!

[rob-pattinson]

EZRA MILLER for GQ Style (2018), ph. Yoshiyuki Matsumara.

[hustlerose]

freud: EVERY dude wants to fuck his mom and and EVERY girl wants to fuck her dad and also wants to be a man secretly 

men: WOW!!!!!!!!!

[powerfulwizard]

“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients were revealing childhood incest victimization to him. Freud concluded that child sexual abuse was one of the major causes of emotional disturbances in adult women and wrote a brilliant and humane paper called “The Aetiology of Hysteria.” However, rather than receiving acclaim from his colleagues for his ground-breaking insights, Freud met with scorn. He was ridiculed for believing that men of excellent reputation (most of his patients came from upstanding homes) could be perpetrators of incest. Within a few years, Freud buckled under this heavy pressure and recanted his conclusions. In their place he proposed the “Oedipus complex,” which became the foundation of modern psychology. According to this theory any young girl actually desires sexual contact with her father, because she wants to compete with her mother to be the most special person in his life. Freud used this construct to conclude that the episodes of incestuous abuse his clients had revealed to him had never taken place; they were simply fantasies of events the women had wished for when they were children and that the women had come to believe were real. This construct started a hundred-year history in the mental health field of blaming victims for the abuse perpetrated on them and outright discrediting of women’s and children’s reports of mistreatment by men.”

— Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

[lesbianchemicalplant]

Why Does He Do That? [EPUB] and [PDF]

[delphinidin4]

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING ME

[arandomcollectionofstuff]

Btw @lesbianchemicalplant thank you for the pdf link I’ve been dying to read this

[takealookatyourlife]

Athena blessed her with the ability to protect herself and men beheaded her for it.

[takealookatyourlife]

[bloodasredlipstick-deactivated2]

That’s actually a really intetesting intpretation of it I hadn’t thought of. Most people seem to think Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon as punishment for defiling her temple, but thinking that she did so to protect her from being abused again is interesting and I like it!

[gabyluvsxena]

Athena’s hands were tied. Yes, she was a powerful Goddess, but she was very much a woman in a “boys club”, and the true offending party (don’t think for a moment that Athena blamed Medusa for being raped in the temple, Athena knows better) held all the cards. There was nothing that Athena could do to punish the true criminal, and she was expected to punish Medusa by everyone else. What’s a Goddess to do when she cannot punish those who need to be punished and is expected to punish not only the truly innocent party, but her most beloved follower? Use that incredible brain power she had to protect Medusa at all costs, and of course the men would see it as punishment, to be have her beauty stripped from her and sent to live in the shadows. Medusa should have been KILLED for supposedly defiling the temple, whether she truly did or not, but she was given the gift of life, and the ability to protect herself and her daughters (who she bore thanks to Poseidon). This is why Medusa’s image was used to signify woman’s shelters and safe houses.

Medusa means “guardian; protectress”, and she was.

[architorturedsouls]

Botanique Café. Bar. Plantas / Moca Arquitetura ph: Eduardo Macarios

[chanelbagsandcigarettedrags]

[beachdeath]

hey peyton! do you have any essays or articles you've read that have been particularly influential to you?

notes on camp by susan sontag

hot allostatic load by porpentine

where the girls aren’t by jessica hopper

death is real by jayson greene

far away from me by jenny zhang

the best little boy in the world - that’s me by adam d. chandler

twelve seconds of gunfire by john woodrow cox

the opposite of loneliness by marina keegan

the numbing of the american mind by thomas de zengotita

female gaze by meaghan garvey

the price of nice nails by sarah maslin nir

how to respond to criticism by mallory ortberg

to fall in love with anyone, do this by mandy len catron

still looking by mark harris

reading bored white girls by morgan jerkins

kanye’s most repulsive (and amazing) album by will toledo

the great recession by shonni enelow

the rape joke by patricia lockwood

the obama doctrine by jeffrey goldberg

the impact of legalized abortion on crime by john j. donohue iii and steven levitt (this one is cheating b/c i first read the dumbed-down version of it in freakonomics when i was twelve but that chapter isn’t online and the original article is very much worth reading)