how wonderful to be alive; i'm sorry i forgot

sabreurs and i are drift compatible <3

[quensty]

hi! i'm santiago (santi if ur nasty)

✶ they/he/she

✶ this is my main blog! fandom sideblog @keithal

✶ i'm quensty on ao3

credit: icon, header, title ✶ blinkie made by @sabreurs <3

[theybah]

i finally got the time to draw! i went for a different style approach this time around to practice a tiny bit of realistic proportions

[seven-winged-liar]

hearing a beloved friend say the words 'can i be mean for a sec' is like watching an angel descend from the heavens and kiss you on the forehead

[quensty]

a guy friend once dapped me up and i responded like this was completely normal and not a defining moment of my life. so as far as im concerned im a peer reviewed masc

[quensty]

my doctor asked me what my stomach aches feel like i told her not everything feels like something else

[revivivivify]

[my-dailydreams]

[etheltempest]

i think every member of the usa women’s hockey team should be able to handpick a member of the men’s team to hunt with a crossbow and machete

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[creatingblackcharacters]

My next Black History Month request:

Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!

[urgetocreate]

Charles Cushing, Pear Tree at 13th and Pine Streets, Philadelphia, 2023, Oil on canvas

[dykecinema]

I really do feel like Billy on the Street screaming NAME A WOMAN on here sometimes

[dykecinema]

I really do feel like Billy on the Street screaming NAME A WOMAN on here sometimes

[gokusclit]

WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE WANNA BE LITTLE GIRLS ITS PISSING ME OFF BE A GROWN WOMAN. NOW

[weirdplutoprince]

Nothing more painful than when a kind stranger tells you about some random AI feature in a way that is clearly meant to be helpful and you have to choose between nodding along in despair or turning wokezilla 3000 on them

[fairycosmos]

basic human empathy has got to make a comeback divas

[mangoslixes]

“Shadow and light are the most stable and perfect tools of creation: they unite colors, shapes, and dimensions,” says Moldovan artist Sergiu Ciochină, adding that “shadows move us through diversity, enhancing our perception, while light fills us with the joy of discovery.” In saturated hues, he captures dappled sunlight as it filters through the trees and the rich tones of the golden hour as it casts deep bluish-purple shade onto the sides of houses.

Taking cues from the Impressionists, Ciochină focuses on the nuances of light and its ability to reveal outlines and forms. He works in thick, impasto oil paint on board, emphasizing the shapes of windows, doors, and stoops and transforming otherwise ordinary buildings into compositions glowing with the patterns of foliage, architectural angles, and the texture of brushstrokes. “The symbiosis I create between nature and architecture is intended to evoke a love for space,” he says.

on Sergiu Ciochină

[srdcovka]