SOME NATURAL TEARS THEY DROPPED

[sociolab]

Do you ever think about the fact that the US has created and legitimized a system of institutionalized inequality by funding schools through property taxes?  That basically a child’s education is only as good as the value of the property in their neighborhood.  Funny how education is so often viewed as an equalizing factor when there is nothing equal about it.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Bernard Frize (French, b. 1949, Saint-Mandé, France) - Rogue, 2015  Paintings: Acrylics, Resin on Canvas

[mementomoriiv]

William Christenberry - Red Building in Forest, Hale County, Alabama, 1974

[in-frame]

[softwaring]

[matialonsorphoto]

i woke up early to watch a soccer game and I this happened

[contac]

[sappho1996-deactivated20181230]

i don’t care about power in my relationships anymore i just want to exude love and be sensitive i have no idea how to be any other way and i’m done trying

[thrustkick]

By caring, in the most genuine sense

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[365filmsbyauroranocte]

“It’s just you and me. I’m your friend, all right?”

Good Time (Ben Safdie & Joshua Safdie, 2017)

[floriental]

Moscow, Dima Zverev

[simena]

[blasphemousangel]

[honeygirlfriend-blog]

[thrustkick]

Lel, this reminds me of a text I read for my Japanese literature class. It’s about a woman in the royal court who’s considered particularly eccentric- she doesn’t do shit but study various bugs/slugs/etc. in her room. It’s called “The Lady Who Loved Insects”. My translation is by Donald Keene in his “Anthology of Japanese Literature”:

“She for her part took immense trouble in explaining her ideas, but this only resulted in making them feel as if she were much cleverer than they. “No doubt”, they would say, “all you tell us is quite true, and so far as we are concerned you may do as you please. But people as a rule only make pets of charming and pretty things. If it gets about that you keep hairy caterpillars you will be thought a disgusting girl and no one will want to know you.” “I do not mind what they think”, she answered. “I want to inquire into everything that exists and find out how it began. Nothing else interests me. And it is very silly of them to dislike caterpillars, all of which will soon turn into lovely butterflies.” Then she again explained to them carefully how the cocoon, which is like the thick winter clothes that human beings wear, wraps up the caterpillar till its wings have grown and it is ready to be a butterfly. Then it suddenly waves its white sleeves and flits away...

[untrustyou]

[roemilo]

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Mazzy Star - Cry, Cry

[theplaylistfilm]

“We’ll always have Paris.”

Casablanca (1942)