Thistle & Tumbleweed

She/Her. A twenty something gal with too many ideas. Photographer and writer are the chief labels that apply. Can’t or won’t pick a niche. Asks are welcome as long as you’re not a gremlin about it.

[addictivecontradiction]

Much ado about nothing, 1993

[ladytharen]

#in his defense no one ever told him that marriage to beatrice was an option (via @julibernardo)

[paulandersonxo]

sisyphus... you made boulder choices on the runway this week, but we just need you to push a little more. i'm sorry my dear but you are up for elimination

[my-dailydreams]

[peaceinthestorm]

Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993, American) ~ Round Table, 1962

[Source: diebenkorn.org]

[tourdion]

one chapter in a long history of persecution…

[minervaasworld]

[velvet-lover]

would u still bless me on my third sneeze

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[creatingblackcharacters]

My next Black History Month request:

Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!

[coldhardbinch]

"They fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones."

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

[clawmarks]

The Wanderer - Alain Fournier - 1928 - via Internet Archive

[dearparentheses]

Paul Evans

[blondebrainpowered]

This is an ancient Egyptian gold ring with a carved jasper frog, dating from 600–30 BC.

[samatonin-deactivated20231101]

[beemojis]

k,

[mrsterlingeverything]

How it feels to say i dont use tiktok

[perfectday1972]

[tiny-librarian]

On February 7th, 1867, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born in Wisconsin. She became famous as an author for her “Little House” series of books, based on her childhood growing up in a pioneer family.

[catilinas]

wretchedly perish then said cicero wednesday

[gaiuscaesarcaligula]