Protected By Medusa

You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, something not everyone knows how to love. -Warsan Shire

[mournfulroses]

Mariya Galina, from a poem titled "What, In July's Heat, Do You Weep For, Poor Guy," featured in An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets

[sophsun1]

Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

[costumeloverz71]

Zuhair Murad Fall Winter Couture

[costumeloverz71]

Zuhair Murad Fall Winter Couture

[costumeloverz71]

Zuhair Murad Fall Winter Couture

[phleb0tomist]

i feel isolated n forgotten today in my sickbed in my dark room so i’m reaching out mentally and picturing all the other disabled people stuck in beds and rooms and facilities who are also reaching for someone. we can be that someone for each other. we understand one another. I love you all

[phleb0tomist]

I feel such friendship and kinship with so many disabled people i’ve never even spoken to, people I haven’t even met online, let alone irl. if you feel friendless because of isolation, there are people out there already loving you from afar. if i’m doing it, there must be other people doing it.

[m-e-isannoying]

We are not alone. Thank you for this post.

[pink-slay]

reblogging from my dark room 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 All the love in the world to those in rooms just like mine, feeling a bone-deep exhaustion just like me

[phantomrose96]

job interviewer: would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for nothing?

[mooseyondaloosey]

Like if we take the same woman and put her in, I don't know, the late 1800s in the west she probably has no choice but to get married and have as many kids as her husband wants. So probably several. Let's say 10 kids, and she probably starts having them in her early 20s on average. and probably 3-4 of them die in infancy. And this is normal for all the other people she knows too.

That same woman now will likely wait until she's 30 before having her first child, or potentially closer to 40, and probably only has 1 or 2, but they both survive and are well cared for, and she can contribute to the workforce still.

Which of those two conditions is more "natural"? where do we want to set the barometer for "normal"? I would much rather the second scenario because not only is this woman's quality of life better but so is the quality of life of her children. that is the birth rate i want. that's the birth rate i imagine most women want.

birth rates are falling, but they are also STABILIZING to NORMAL, SUSTAINABLE, HUMAN LEVELS. that's my new argument. the drop only looks so severe because women were having too many children before!

[colubrina]

[pxrallax]

stars_and_beyond_

[hedgehog-moss]

[english-idylls]

[alraunahomestead]

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[thecollectibles]

Winter Solitude (2025) by Akbar Ulan

[hedgehog-moss]

We were following some dramatic clouds and we came across a herd of the friendliest fluffiest ponies... And just like cows, they enjoyed chasing Pandolf :)

[knit-by-daylight]

Badgers!

[hedgehog-moss]

I randomly found a new bookshop in town yesterday, and I was happy to discover that it was a foreign-language one, those are rare around here! And also that it was the kind of bookshop that doubles as a café, with little tables and an old couch in a nook...