Zwischen Immer und Nie

Valeria, 20. «E non faccio che sognare, ogni giorno, che alla fine, chissà quando, incontrerò qualcuno. Ah, se sapeste quante volte sono stato innamorato in questo modo!» «Ma come dunque, di chi?» «Ma di nessuno, di un ideale, di colei che mi appare in sogno. Io in sogno creo interi romanzi».”

[poisonedcure]

aziraphale ready to shoot the antichrist, an 11 year old child

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“It’s so irritating. When people say “particular”, they lack the intelligence to understand “difference”. Or to appreciate it. Or have the guts to admit that they hate it.”

— Xavier Dolan - J'ai tué ma mère.

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Films Directed by Xavier Dolan

[filmografie]

J'ai tué ma mère (2009), dir. Xavier Dolan

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J’ai tué ma mère (dir. Xavier Dolan, 2009, Canada)

“I thought that… if I could put together each… little… thing… that I want to tell you about but that I never told you because… Because I’m not that talkative. You know very well that I’m not really… a loquacious guy, right? But if I could put together all the things I want to tell you, and tell you them in one go, it would take one hundred years. One hundred fucking years to tell you everything.”

[lagerfeuernaechte]

“We should be able to kill ourselves in our heads. And then be reborn. To be able to talk, look at each other, be together. As if we have never met before.”

— J'ai tué ma mére/I killed my mother

[expressions-of-nature]

Iceland by Ralph Kränzlein

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Instagram 

[musingmollusk]

So sometimes I see bros on the internet talk about how women couldn’t have worn armor historically, because it was too heavy for them.

Here is a picture of me wearing armor when I was a nerdy 14-year-old girl who was about 5 feet tall and weighed less than 95 pounds. I sometimes wore it for 6 hours straight in summer heat, and I would run and turn summersaults in it for fun.

And before you start asking: this was authentic full steel plate with a padded arming doublet underneath. It weighed so much that I couldn’t carry the plastic tub it was stored in on my own. It was heavy. But once I was wearing it I just felt like I was being hugged or wrapped up in a really heavy blanket. That’s how armor works. The whole point is that the weight is distributed across your whole body, and your whole body can lift a huge amount. It has nothing to do with how strong you are or how much you can bench.

So if you think women are too weak to wear armor, you are wrong on so many levels. It does not even matter if you believe in your little misogynistic heart that all women are defined by their physical inferiority when compared to men, because you are also just wrong about how armor works. Even skinny teen girls can wear armor just fine. Everyone can wear armor.

[flutteringazure]

People who think that women would not be strong enough to wear full armor, also seem to forget that:

- traditionally women’s work was work for which you needed to be hella strong. Try lugging around buckets of water, animal feed, milk and cheeses for a day and see how you like it. Try doing the laundry without a machine to help you out.

- women’s clothing over the years has been layered and made out of heavy cloth and bone structures to achieve a certain silhouette. All these layers and structures are heavy, and women would be wearing them for hours and hours every day.

[macpye]

there’s scientific evidence that historic women weren’t weak; prehistoric women were stonger than many modern athletes (see here and here) because of their physical labour, it stands to reason that women doing similar labour a decennium later would be able to wear heavy things. 

[aura-eden]

Saint Ambrose with Ambrosius van Engelen, detail - c.1520

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Duomo di Siena, Siena, Toscana, Italia | Christie Lanzilotti

[naturaekos]

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via goodreadss)

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[ipusheveryoneaway]

La curiosità nei confronti dell’altro è una profondissima forma d’amore.

Fabrizio De André

[cantcontrolthegay-deactivated20]

where’s my oscar for acting like i’m not falling apart 

[arthistoryfeed]

Hadrian’s Villa (Tivoli, Italy) - Piazza d'Oro (Golden Square).

[unamezzaluna]

“A volte mi prende qualcosa che non so definire: non è angoscia, non è desiderio, è un ignoto tumulto interno che minaccia di lacerarmi il petto, che mi stringe la gola.”

— J. W. Goethe, i dolori del giovane Werther.