the bad blood rose in me, just like wine

it was odd to see her stepping out of that gloomy place, like a pearl coming out of an oyster.

[quo-usque-tandem]

Woman with Lotus by Y.G. Srimati

[random-brushstrokes]

Grace Cossington Smith - The Sock Knitter (1915)

[matchagirl]

[pwlanier]

Basalt Pebble Carved as a Mouflon, Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC.

Courtesy Alain Truong

[justineportraits]

Gerda Wegener      Lili Elbe

[salem-h-deactivated20210109]

[luninosity]

These illustrations are from the Catwings series, by the incomparable Ursula K. Le Guin (!), and they’re wonderful!

[bisexuel]

this world doesn't give a fuck about yuri but i do. i do

[mammalianmammals]

Waigeou Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus papuensis), family Phalengeridae, order Diprotodontia, endemic to Waigeou Island, Raja Ampat, New Guinea

photograph by Drem Wat

[vagun1ka]

the original butchfem (dear daniel & hello kitty)

[holespoles]

Christian Krohg (Norwegian painter, 1852 - 1925)

[herpsandbirds]

Wire-crested Thorntail (Discosura popelairii), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Ecuador

photograph by Milan Zygmunt

[alosereffort]

Akihiro Yamada

[snototter]

A colony of northern carmine bee-eaters (Merops nubicus) in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia

by Miguel Martí

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, featured in Letters to Sartre

[nemfrog]

Hercules beetle, in the foreground. Insects abroad. 1883 ed.

Internet Archive

[1five1two]

'Meereserwachen'. Hans Thoma. 1893.

[geryone]

Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson