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girlfleeshouse

Disgust.

metamorphesque

— Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (The Hague, 21 July 1882)

[text ID: Art is jealous, she does not like taking second place to an illness. Hence I shall humour her.]

mioritic

Kloster Lüne, from 1172 to the protestant reformation a Benedictine nunnery, now a Lutheran women's convent.

30.05.2026

chic-a-gigot

Le Figaro-modes, no. 31, juillet 1905, Paris. Mlle Dalnys, du chatelet. Photo Paul Boyer. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

girlfleeshouse

The fate of the house turns on the understanding between the girl and the investigator.

thepenguinpress

Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969.

lonesomedovepdf

“[March 21 1951]

Student explaining to me (after getting 55) that when reading a novel (’Ulysses’ in this case) he likes to skip ‘passages and pages’ so as ‘to get his own idea, you know, about the book and not be influenced by the author’.”

hideki-koga

オオモモブトスカシバ（clearwing moth）

disc80s

terps: Epinetron” (επίνητρον) is a ceramic thigh protector that women in Ancient Greece used while spinning wool on their thighs. Penelope is usually pictured with one so it is associated with an activity you do while waiting. For Ulysses to come back, for the crisis to end. [...] I made this epinetron during the lockdown and sculpting it on my thigh, working on top of it for hours, I felt that I replicated the work of the women before me. The “spinning women” as they were called by male archaeologists, who perceived them as unethical because they were working.

kore-eleusis

A Greek Epinetron, a ceramic cover for the knees used by women so that their clothing would not be spoiled while weaving. Typically offered as a wedding gift, it was often taken to a woman's grave. 425-420 BC. National Museum, Athens.

The epinetron (Greek: ἐπίνητρον, pl.: epinetra, ἐπίνητρα; "distaff"); Beazley also called them onoi, sg.: onos) was a shape of Attic pottery worn on the thighs of women during the preparation of wool, not unlike a thimble for the thigh.[1] Decorated epinetra were placed on the graves of unmarried girls, or dedicated at temples of female deities.[citation needed]

Because of the strong association between wool-working and the Ancient Greek ideal of women and wives—as in the case of Penelope weaving in the Odyssey—it is a shape associated with the wedding.[2]

The theme of its decoration tended to be related to its use. The top surface was often incised to make it rough in order to rub the wool fibers. There was often a female head placed at the closed end, where the knee was covered. Epinetra were often decorated, sometimes depicting black figure Amazon women, as in the case of an epinetron painted by the Sappho painter between 500 and 490 BCE.[3]

The base of an epinetron from Athens, depicting a lion and a pegasus

goldensunset

ok i’ve been curious about something. can you name a character who is, all three at once,

1. canonically female (no variation)

2. canonically the protagonist of her story (if it’s an ensemble cast you have to say you can legitimately see her as The main character)

3. your personal #1 favorite character in that story (ties are acceptable)

?

yes

no

super nuance bald extract button (use this wisely)

Voting ended onAug 12

eileenlufkin

I noticed in the tags that many people were using books, so yes, easily; but to be completely honest, it would be much harder if it specified live action tv or movie.

#anne elliot.