[animaltestings]

does anyone know how to get what you want when you're the type of person who avoids everything

[homoquartz]

if you spoke to lestat or louis about your pain, they would say, "your pain? what about MY pain?" but if you spoke about your pain to armand he would say "let me lobotomize you and you will never feel pain again." he has a solution-based mindset and we could all learn from him.

[toobusymakingmyownreality]

And if you told Daniel he'd ask questions that would only make you feel worse. He has problem-making mindset.

[m-caelius-rufus]

[crimsolyn]

I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.

[dragongirlsnout]

Have you ever considered that Sisyphus might've just been in for the love of the game? My bus driver hits the same curb every morning

[galusandmalus]

death to bald achilles

I consider Brad Pitt spiritually bald, and I hate him the most of all...

[chizhik-pyzhik]

gorbachev in 1991: our soviet age is collapsing

[log6]

you think so much. You could think about a door for a hundred years and it would stay closed.

[pmamtraveller]

Season of the Eagle by Bev Doolittle

[seren-starlight]

Nobody really knows what makes a person go to bed

[translatingpostsintolatin]

Vero nemo scit quare homines ad lectum eant

[translatingpostsintoancientgreek]

Οὐδεὶς τῷ ὄντι οἶδεν τί ποιεῖ ἄνθρωπον εἰς κοίτην ἰέναι

[worldsandemanations]

Clouds over the valley, southeast Arizona. Photo copyright by j.e.syme 2024

[narcissene]

affirmations:

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

- i CAN do this anymore

[petaltexturedskies]

There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn't that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life.

Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides; Tragedy: A Curious Art Form

[pjharvey]

our age of blogs is collapsing

[vyvilha]

of course i love seeing people pushing back on the stereotype of ancient rome as this noble and glorious marble white cradle of civilization but very often it just goes too far into this equally wrong way of thinking when people start to paint ancient rome as this uniquely evil culture that's not only uniquely evil by itself but also is like a progenitor of Everything Wrong with modern society. people literally think if it wasn't for ancient rome we would have no patriarchy or slavery or colonialism. which is like. Okay so you don't know anything about any ancient culture whatsoever

[frommylimitedtravels]

High and low - Central Cascade Mountains, Washington State

[catcher-in-the-reeds]

I always imagined Helen as having very pale skin and blonde hair.

Because she was born from an egg.

She looked like egg white and yolk.