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anna .. 26... dedicated to steve irwin

[riverlarking]

ancient peoples loooved a flood narrative it was kinda like their beatles

[discourseoflove]

“The role of the artist is exactly the same role, I think, as the role of the lover. If you love somebody, you honor at least two necessities at once. One of them is to recognize something very dangerous, or very difficult. Many people cannot recognize it at all, that you may also be loved; love is like a mirror. In any case, if you do love somebody, you honor the necessity endlessly, and being at the mercy of that love, you try to correct the person whom you love. Now, that’s a two-way street. You’ve also got to be corrected. As I said, the people produce the artist, and it’s true. The artist also produces the people. And that’s a very violent and terrifying act of love. The role of the artist and the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see. Insofar as that is true, in that effort, I become conscious of the things that I don’t see. And I will not see without you, and vice versa, you will not see without me. No one wants to see more than he sees. You have to be driven to see what you see. The only way you can get through it is to accept that two-way street which I call love. You can call it a poem, you can call it whatever you like. That’s how people grow up. An artist is here not to give you answers but to ask you questions.”

— James Baldwin, “The Black Scholar Interviews James Baldwin,” Conversations with James Baldwin (edited by Fred L. Standley and Louis H. Pratt)

[tockthewatchdog]

[fefairys]

[papayajuan2019]

must feel so good to be soil absorbing rain

[meowmorials]

2008

[livesunique]

Lismore Castle, Lismore, County Waterford, Republic of Ireland,

Credit: Bill Phelps

[as-if-falling]

“The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture’s patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language’s rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people’s gestures and movements.”

— Ken Liu, Translator’s Postface to The Three Body Problem.

[unrar]

France 1988. Normandy. Mont-Saint-Michel, Bruno Barbey.

[luckism]

A Franciscan monk taking a break from tending to the fields to pet a cat (2004)

Captured by photographer Steve McCurry at the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Foresta in Rieti, Italy.

[pissboy]

The Daily Life of a Grandma and Her Odd-Eyed Cat - Miyoko Ihara 

[kosmogrl]

[theweirdwideweb]

[everyday-cutephoto]

[csny]

[csny]

[mephistopheles]

being single sucks [remembers that romantic love isnt the gleaming beacon of salvation that will fix the chasm within me] #mychasm #isupportmychasm [remembers not to trivialize my emotions] but it is painful to never have been deemed worthy of that kind of lasting love [remembers how many incels there are] but honestly you should be totally self-sufficient and never want anything ever [remembers that im evil] im evil

[givingdirt]