sing to the goddess of love and beauty

•Devoted to Aphrodite•Antoinette•30•

[red-and-blonde-moved]

Hera, protectress of women loves and supports all trans women

Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty holds trans women tight and gives them their beauty and tells them she loves them

Artemis, patron of young women, holds her bow to protect all trans women from anything that might hurt them

You are loved, you are welcome, the gods love you

[rosieandthemoon]

[20thcenturystarlet]

New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

[thepeelingrenoir]

The fact this isn't a painting is a testament to one of the greatest feats of set design and production I've ever seen.

[thepeelingrenoir]

My god just look at this! The lighting, set design, photography... I've just never seen anything like it.

[jammerific]

I think this is the first time I've ever been wowed by "this ISN'T a painting"!

[inkpressedpetals]

[emmaharwoods]

[moderndaymystic]

The purest form of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. Pays attention to detail. Holds you in regard when making decisions that could affect you. In any bond, how much they care about you can be found in how much they consider you

[twofronteeth]

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Sibyl Colfax, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

[ashstfu]

eat delicious things in every sense. savor novels that unravel slowly, like decadent meals for the mind. let sunlight kiss ur skin, bask in its warmth like an endless summer. hold close the people who make you feel alive, kiss them tenderly, love them fiercely. laugh at bad jokes, the kind that make you roll ur eyes but secretly smile. plant basil on your windowsill, water it with care, breathe in its fragrance as you stir it into your meals. be unafraid to indulge in beauty, to notice it everywhere and to consume it greedily. there is no virtue in starving yourself of joy, no wisdom in rationing delight.

[oldpaintings]

The Love Birds by Adolfo Belimbau (Italian, 1845-1938)

[pinkprism]

[constanzarte]

L'Aurore, William-Adolphe Bouguereau. 1881.

[aaloosshitposting]

"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"

But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.

It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?

[coquette-club]

[fearlastyear]

“I basked in you; I loved you helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn’t prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren’t dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)”

—Franz Wright, “Untitled,” from Earlier Poems

[plutorichh]

[airmanslament]

The Pearls of Aphrodite (1907), Herbert James Draper. Oil on canvas.

1,470 x 3,124 pixels.