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sagittarius☼ aquarius☾ "After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth." -Carl Sagan "Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh had gone through; I dream of what it may go through. I record here the actions of optical nerves, of taste buds, of sensory perception. And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence." -Sylvia Plath

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[fuckyeahjapanandkorea]

[thirdeyedmt]

[vintagewoc]

Ling Tan for Vogue Germany (November 1998)

[nguanblr]

[excdus]

Fuke

[thegolddig]

[theparisreview]

As the Quran has it, Prophet Muhammad took a night trip to heaven aboard a trusty winged pony-horse-mule-ish creature called Buraq. It’s an episode that’s inspired Islamic art ever since, because few artists can resist a theologically sound reason to draw a winged horse. Yasmine Seale writes, “The friction between the historical Prophet and his fantastical mount, between the sacred and the physical, reflects a similar divide within Buraq herself: she has been perceived both as a dream-horse—mythical, sexless, emblematic—and as a creature of flesh. And Buraq as animal, especially in her more sexualized incarnations, in turn raises thorny questions about the body of the Prophet himself. Artists generally elided this problem, or creatively eluded it; early images of the Prophet tend to show him with a veil, and more recently his body has been symbolized by a white cloud, a rose, or a flame.”

[geopsych]

The start of a new day.

[nubbsgalore]

[nubbsgalore]

for nepalese hindus, last saturday was kukur puja, the second day of the five day tihar festival, nepal’s version of diwali. literally meaning “worship of dogs,” kukur puja is dedicated to honouring our special relationship with dogs, who are adorned in vermillion and garlands of marigold. photos x, x, x, x, x) 

[myrealnameisraven]

Kamloops Winterby Laurazee

[johnfrancispetersart]

PEACEFUL VALLEY (oil on canvas)

[johnfrancispetersart]

VALLY OF FIRE. (oil on canvas)

[johnfrancispetersart]

PASSION FLOWER. (oil on canvas)

[invierno-deactivated20200413]

[s-till-s-ane]

[disneyswalt]

the rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his twenty-first year