illimitably earth

i draw, i write, i enjoy things

[m-l-rio]

After my first confirmed kill I began to understand that it was not necessary to understand. What you do, you become. The insights of one moment are blotted out by the events of the next. And no amount of insight could ever alter the cold, black fact of what I had done… I was suddenly very calm, just as I had been calm when the mine detonated, because there was nothing I could do. I was defining myself with bullets; blood had blemished my Yankee Doodle dream that everything would have a happy ending, and that I, when the war was over, would return to hometown America in a white silk uniform, a rainbow of campaign ribbons across my chest, brave beyond belief, the military Jesus.

Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers (via m-l-rio)

[elftwink]

i will defend improvised storytelling till the day i fucking die i think stories told by people under pressure to do it fast, stories told in collaboration…. that shits gorgeous and ALIVE. have you ever gone to a writing workshop and someone writes the rawest shit in the entire world during a ten minute free write? playing dnd and some dialogue is so moving it makes you wonder how it came from your dumbass friends? got really into one of those ‘one sentence at a time’ campfire story games and ended up making something— totally unrecorded, lost except to the people who were there— that should have been in the fucking moma?

people are full to the BRIM with stories and honing that storytelling into a specific practice (ex. writing) is for sure a learned skill that takes tons of practice to do effectively but…… it’s there. it’s there and anyone can tap into it if they’re given opportunity and an audience to say it to.

look, the point of telling stories is to connect with other people. and all we’ve ever done throughout human history is connect connect connect so is it any wonder when you put a human being in front of an outlet and you say ‘tell me a story’, no one stays silent? 

[andiree]

Not the alien invasion you were expecting, but just as annoying.

[ethanhunt-deactivated20230911]

Costumes Lily James wore in The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

[master-painters]

Joaquín Sororolla - Santa en oración - 1888

High resolution:

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[evakosmosart]

Away from the flock

[elexecution]

[deathandmysticism]

A Miracle, of Miracles, 1614

[master-painters]

From Birth till Death

La Vierge au Lys - 1899 and Pieta - 1876 - William Bouguereau

[likeniobe]

jessika williams as viola/cesario in the american shakespeare center’s 2016 production of twelfth night 

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

“I would eat his heart in the marketplace” is legit the most savage line I have ever heard, I’d like to personally thank Shakespeare for putting into words that feeling of rage and protectiveness women get when some fuckboy hurts another woman

[aeleolus]

Okay first off, I will always reblog this post, but secondly, I went to Shakespeare in the Park tonight to see this and all the women cheered *so loudly* when Beatrice said this line, and the guy in front of me looked around all shocked and a little scared and said “… oh wow” and it was ICONIQUE

[gabriellabowden]

[asecretceremony-blog]

[billowy]

David Hamilton, 1973

[officialqueer]

I was so inspired by Kid Gorgeous that I put together an event to have people dress up like old timey folks and wave to departing ships down at the harbour!

It was actually quite fun!

[dreamyfilms]

atonement (2007, dir. joe wright)

[sparkitors]

If Pride and Prejudice took place in 2018, there would be markedly less garden-walking, an equal amount of upper-class snobbery, and 100% more texting.

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[girlinthepark]

Elżbieta Ellie Dyduch | Venice, Italy.