Van Gogh With The Flow

Welcome! I'm a grad student who consumes far too much media and I blog about whatever I'm fixating on at the moment - nonbinary, pronouns are she/they and I promise I will send you pictures of my dogs if you message me 💕

[alysmond]

There are times when Helaena sees things. It will sound mad. They are nightmares or puzzles. But the things she does see now and then, they come to pass. She dreams. She's a dreamer.

[lukethompsons]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022—) S03｜E01

[gameofthronesdaily]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S03 E08 The Treasons at Tumbleton

[wizardcurse]

I should start posting franz kafka style diary quotes but it’s from my journal from when I was 11/12 and obsessed with naruto 

[wizardcurse]

—Saturday 02nd October, 2011. 8:45pm.

[yookay-times]

[duchessvongooseberg]

[satwcomic]

If you mirror Italy through the center of the Earth, you almost exactly get New Zealand. In position, size, and shape:

[steveyockey]

Bureaucratics is a project consisting of a book (ISBN 978-1-59005-232-7, now sold out) and a traveling exhibition that has so far been shown in museums and galleries in some twenty countries on five continents. The book and the exhibition contain 50 photographs and are the product of an anarchist’s heart, a historian’s mind and an artist’s eye. Bureaucratics is a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents, selected on the basis of political, historical and cultural considerations: Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen. In each country, I visited up to hundreds of offices of members of the executive in different services and at different levels. The visits were unannounced and the accompanying writer, Will Tinnemans, by interviewing kept the employees from tidying up or clearing the office. That way, the photos show what a local citizen would be confronted with when entering.

The photography has a conceptual, typological approach reminding of August Sander’s ‘Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts’ (‘People of the Twentieth Century’). Each subject is posed behind his or her desk. The photos all have a square format (fitting the subject), are shot from the same height (that of the client), with the desk – its front or side photographed parallel to the horizontal edges of the frame – serving as a bulwark protecting the representative of rule and regulation against the individual citizen, the warm-blooded exception. They are full of telling details that sometimes reveal the way the state proclaims its power or the bureaucrat’s rank and function, sometimes of a more private character and are accompanied by information such as name, age, function and salary. Though there is a high degree of humour and absurdity in these photos, they also show compassion with the inhabitants of the state’s paper labyrinth.

[xanaxfarts]

Gem Cities by Neave Bozorgi

[wewontbesleeping]

the olivia rodrigo subreddit is amazing today

[mephistopheles]

hi so yeah im trying to find the hotel california and i know i have to take the highway to hell but i accidentally turned left onto the boulevard of broken dreams. i took the first hard right onto the rocky road to dublin cuz i thought it would loop back around but it didnt lol and i know im waaaaaay off course bc i just drove by the house of the rising sun haha. so how many miles until i get to the hotel

[mephistopheles]

500 MILES?!?!?!

[malignedmare]

it is genuinely so unbelievably annoying to be a child trafficking survivor and have to listen to people argue about shadows on the wall when it comes to children’s rights and child abuse prevention. the only true way to prevent child abuse is to take away parental control. give children rights. give them the education, resources, and rights to say yes or no to whatever and whoever they desire. i know what would have helped me. i’m so mind numbingly sick of all of this. everyone wants to feel like a hero, but nobody wants to help anyone.

[malignedmare]

there is not a pedophile cabal hiding in the shadows waiting to kidnap children. parents are the number one perpetrators of child sexual abuse. my kidnapper was my mother. my traffickers were all paid by her and had legal custody over me. i was forced thru constant manual labor and sexual humiliation in the name of “therapy” because parents are allowed to do whatever they want with the children they own. the end of adult supremacy is the only way to end child abuse.

[racketghost]

every time i start to feel cringe for being too deep in the hyperfixation i remember the intense depression i have waded through and have to remind myself that enjoyment is fleeting (so grab it with both hands), and life is for loving (so hold that love close), and if anyone thinks i’m cringe they must not be having a very good time (and i hope they can find a good time soon).

[racketghost]

[tags via : @heavenly-havoc]

[inkjie]

soliloquy by an immortal cave painter.

pencil, ink, and ochre on paper

[lizbukchoy]

me and a friend had a running joke about editing the gif of kermit and christian bale nodding at each other for a number of years, and i found the folder of edits and feel like this is maybe a place for them.

[socialistexan]

So you're telling me the New York Times had incriminating evidence on Donald Trump from direct email correspondences with Jeffrey Epstein in 2015 and suppressed it.

Am I understanding this correctly?

[socialistexan]

[sapient-simian]

Epstein was naive!?!?!?!?!

Catch and kill is a surreptitious technique employed by newspapers and media outlets to prevent an individual from publicly revealing information damaging to a third party.

Using a legally enforceable non-disclosure agreement, the publisher purports to buy exclusive rights to "catch" the damaging story from the individual, but then "kills" the story for the benefit of the third party by preventing it from ever being published.

The individual with the information frequently does not realize that the tabloid intends to suppress the individual's story instead of publishing it.

Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate domestic American news media organizations for propaganda purposes.

According to author Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and influenced the operations of front groups.

CIA support of front groups was exposed when an April 1967 Ramparts article reported that the National Student Association (NSA) received funding from the CIA.[1] In 1975, Church Committee Congressional investigations revealed Agency connections with journalists and civic groups.

But they're not doing that anymore.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[loki-zen]

spotted in a pub in continental Europe

[noise-misato-boy-destroyer]

How do I make this flag a trans flag

[antisolanum]

That fucking rules

[toasaterfork]

[darkersolstice]

Oh, that's Milo Manara's art. It's always about 50% more horny than it needs to be.