Shadow of the Waxwing

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the window pane (Vladimir Nabokov, "Pale Fire")

[awesome-picz]

Photographer Transforms Famous Landmarks Using Paper Cutouts.

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[fascist]

Sartre and his cat called Nothing.

[thestarstone]

La fonction d'un écrivain est d'appeler un chat un chat. - JPS

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»some give« by fred eerdekens (+)

[cgmfindings]

Gem Set Snake Earrings    c. 1900

Entwined snakes decorated with calibré-cut emeralds and rubies

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[scotianostra]

Good Morning from Scotland.

morning, Loch Droma . Scotland by Janusz W.

[paper-mario-wiki]

I feel a strong emotional bond with this cone for reasons I cannot explain.

[kglsudav]

[occultclassicalbright]

RUYSCH, Rachel (1664–1750)

Details after “Stilleven met bloemen op een marmeren tafelblad” Ed. and Digital Restoration Orig.

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Glasgow, Scotland

photo by benchristian

[unshyness]

So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead, and above the sheaves of yellow stars, shoals of cold bright pieces of light, and the great wind, blowing always cold gulps and gusts of air, big and soft in the tree leaves, hushing, miracles are happening, and I, strange and elated with a new wonder, child-like in my sudden power, look with eyes large in love and amazement at this intent lovely face so earnest, so close to mine.

Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath (via creaturesheavenly)

[gordons-moved]

Can y'all not forget that the girl who plays Supergirl is incredibly fucking racist and did brown face and played a fucking Muslim terrorist in a blockbuster movie like this year? Like it’s not hard stop ignoring it

[lesbanon-deactivated20181217]

I just want to clarify as an Arab person that Melissa didn’t exactly do brown face. The character she played was a white Muslim convert. HOWEVER the entire movie was deeply islamophobic and anti-Arab and she should not have participated in it and y'all white women (white sapphics especially) need to stop glorifying her

[mightywhistle]

Okay three things here. First: sources. If you’re going to make a claim like this with the intent to inform the public at large of this event, you need to include a link or pictures. Literally, pics or it didn’t happen.

Second: let’s say for a second that this did indeed happen. What is the context of it? Why did she take this role? Did the role have a subtext that you didn’t understand which explained the issue?

Third: putting all that aside, let’s talk about the elephant in the room. It’s 2017, and Donald Trump is the “so-called leader” of America. There are way bigger fish to fucking fry then this. We need to be rallying together to protect what little rights we do have. Personally, I’m fucking tired of explaining to people why I should be able to use a bathroom for god sakes. Instead of this, let’s donate our time or money to Democratic causes that will strengthen our chances to be represented again come 2018. We need leaders and people to rally around, and I definitely saw Melissa Benoist out marching durning the Women’s March. Nobody is perfect, and everyone makes mistakes. I know I did, and I know you all probably did too.

Finally, I want to say that I mean no disrespect to anyone here. Different minority groups face different changes, and I won’t pretend to know another’s struggles. There is definitely islamophobia in our country, and racism, and sexism, and homophobia and transphobia. But for now let’s instead direct it towards the people who are very forward with it, the ones who own those terms as words of empowerment. Let’s take those fucks down first.

[aegontargaryen]

Ok three things here

1. Bitch you wrote an entire essay on this post but you didn’t have the time to Google??? Pics or it didn’t happen??? What kind of white nonsense is this. An Arab woman is pointing out racism and the only thhing you can contribute to this is your ignorant racist opinion???

2. Why did she take the role? Well why would someone take the role that’s incredibly racist and islamophobic?? Oh I know why :)

3. People can care, discuss and talk about several things at the same time. Pointing out someone’s fuck ups that are about islamophobia and racism seems like unimportant to you lmao that’s so funny

Honestly I am not suprised that you people reach to protect white women who do shit like this. Y'all get a stroke when a poc does something problematic and will talk about it 492 times a day and never forget about it but when someone points out that your precious whites did something it’s suddenly “pics or it didn’t happen” or “there are more important things to discuss” like Bitch…… Have some respect or shut the fuck up.

[gordons-moved]

Yeah thanks

[justsomeantifas]

Lmao so like, I’m on valium right now, I’m schizophrenic and have borderline personality disorder, and I was put on valium because I had kidney stones surgically removed, now … before I had been put on this for my physical illness, I never would have been given the opportunity to try valium to treat my mental illness.

The psychiatric community fear mongers over it so much, but the valium has vastly improved my life, and if I hadn’t almost died I never would have known that there was a medication out there that could actually help me live my life easier? Isn’t that fucked up? 

They’re more afraid of the evil mentally ills getting “addicted” than fucking treating our symptoms.

Even though like, I’m literally fucking addicted to my antipsychotics, which I have to take for the rest of my life, but apparently that’s ~just not the same~

[justsomeantifas]

This also directly relates to the chronic pain community, because they’re more afraid of you getting addicted to something that vastly improves your life, than fucking improving your life. As someone who suffers from both mental illness, and chronic illness which consists of chronic pain, I can say there’s no winning in either community.

[lionofchaeronea]

Angel (from the Polyptych of the Resurrection), Titian, 1522

[zenshipper]

When I was 21 I read “Anna Karenina.” I thought Anna and Vronsky were soul mates. They were deeply in love and therefore had to be together. I found Karenin cruel and oppressive for keeping his wife from her destiny. Levin and Kitty and the peasants bored me. I read those parts quickly.Last year I turned 49, and I read the book again. This time, I loved Levin and Kitty. I loved the fact that after she declined his proposal he waited for a long time to mend his hurt feelings and then asked her again. I loved that she had grown up in the interim and now felt grateful for a second chance. Anna and Vronsky bored me. I thought Anna was selfish and shrill. My heart went out to poor Karenin, who tried to be decent.What has literature taught me about love? Literature (along with experience) has taught me that love means different things at different points in our lives, and that often as we get older we gravitate toward the quieter, kinder plotlines, and find them to be richer than we had originally understood them to be.

Ann Patchett, A Sentimental Education - Writers on Love (via zenshipper)

[thoodleoo]

some classics valentine’s day poems

Achilles

roses are red

wine-dark is the sea

my boyfriend is dead

time for a killing spree

Oedipus

roses are red

a hue like no other

you know, valentine,

you’re just like my mother?

Catullus

my girl’s eyes are swollen

her sparrow is dead

but is that just a metaphor

for my dick instead?

Cato

roses are red

space is black like a void

who cares about love

Carthage must be destroyed

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Poseidon

Roses are red

like bitter regret 

I’m god of the ocean 

let me make you wet ;)

Odysseus

My wife is at home

but babe, let’s forget her; 

I’ll show you a good time

‘cause Nobody’s better

Athena 

Roses are red

violets are red 

everything is red 

I love war

Apollo

Roses are red

but I haven’t got any

all of my lovers

have turned into botany

Prometheus

I’ve bought you some roses

‘cause babe, I’m a giver

say you’ll be mine

I’ll really de-liver

Zeus

Roses are red

violets are blue

shit, Hera’s coming - 

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Julius Caesar

Roses are red, 

And so is my blood.

What the fuck Brutus?

I thought we were good! 

Pompey

Roses are red,

My pate’s on a plate.

Ptolemy got head

On our first date. 

Crassus

Gold is not red, 

It’s yellow like honey. 

Your house is on fire,

So give me your money. 

Porcia

Embers are red,

The hottest fire’s blue.

I swallowed these coals

So you’d know I was true. 

Cato the Younger

Entrails are red.

You can’t keep me in stitches. 

I ripped my guts open.

Fuck all you bitches. 

Catilina

I see two bodies. 

They’re me and you. 

I fucked a Vestal. 

I fucked your dad, too. 

Clodius 

Roses are red, 

I have three hot sisses.  

I put on a dress

And I nailed Caesar’s missus. 

@raisel-the-riveter DEAL WITH THIS IT’S YOUR FAULT. 

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Cicero

Violets are indigo,

Roses are crimson.

Silver my tongue is,

Like Fulvia’s hairpin. 

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Mark Antony

Roses are red,

And violets bucolic. 

I’m Marcus Antonius

And I’m an alcoholic. 

@raisel-the-riveter I CAN’T STOP. 

[raisel-the-riveter]

!!! OH MY GOD

[occupationprophet]

OHHHH! I can do this!

Ovid

Roses are red

I’m in exile

I pissed off Augustus

I might be here a while

Virgil

:To be edited:

Roses are red?

Please burn this poem

After I’m dead.

Sappho

Roses are red

Women are hot

I’m really fucking gay

Don’t act like I’m not

Dido

My blood is red

You think you’re a hero?

I hope you drown

omnibus umbra locis adero

[fuckitandmovetobritain]

Oxford, England, UK