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[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

Clip of Lucy Dacus on the Las Culturistas podcast.

[petaltexturedskies]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

[wolfishweb]

cars shot by nan goldin

[petaltexturedskies]

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share.

Anne Rice, from the forward to a collection of Franz Kafka's Short Stories

[detectivehole]

to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it'd be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator

[cuties-in-codices]

16th c. spectacular fireworks machines

miniatures from a richly illustrated manuscript of friedrich meyer's büchsenmeister- und feuerwerksbuch, a book on gunsmithing and the pyrotechnical arts for entertainment as well as military purposes. produced in strasbourg (?), 1594

source: Munich, BSB, Cgm 8143, ff. 143r, 135v-136r, and 145r

on the culture of early modern fireworks spectacles see, among others, kevin salatino: incendiary art: the representation of fireworks in early modern europe (1997) [link to pdf]

[bestiolin]

oofotyknit

[propertiesofjoy]

fem, magda cârnerci

[portalibis]

Venus and Mars, German 15th Century

Telegram / Facebook / Sacred Ibis fb group

[sixappleseeds]

princeton university press is having a 50% off sale and i limited myself to just three books but the temptation to go back and browse for more is extremely strong

so i'm telling you all about it instead. it goes until june 9!

[processedlives]

“Tact, like empathy, is based on a certain form of mutual understanding. But while empathy implies the idea of entering someone else’s mind inasmuch as it is linked to the presumption that ‘I know how you feel’, tact exists to create a form of bonding between individuals that is not based on the idea of intrusion but, conversely, on the respect for existing boundaries, and on a willingness not always to assume that one knows. While empathy requires resonance and proximity, tact is there to restore distance, and to accept the difference between the individuals involved in order to protect and preserve their dignity. Tact is based on an attention towards otherness.”

— Katja Haustein, “How to Be Alone with Others: Plessner, Adorno, and Barthes on Tact” (via mehreenkasana)

[frostedmagnolias]

Cotton Day Gown

c. 1832

Chertsey Museum

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[wexler]

anthony bourdain: parts unknown - borneo

[bobbole]

Thanassis Stavrakis, A man carrying a sheep on a motorcycle during a wildfire in Patras, western Greece, August 2025

[apocryphics]

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