dumbstruck with the sweetness of being

23 • ⚢ • midwest bred

[allthateverwasorwillbe]

Stories of Strange Women

J.Y.F. Cooke (1906)

[selfromance]

Mushroom medley from Salt Point

[vintagelasvegas]

Sky Ranch Motel, May 1979

2009 Fremont, since ‘55. Photos by Toon Michiels from American Neon Signs by Day & Night. 

[winebreadandart]

Female standard bearer, Besançon BM MS 1360, Konrad Kyeser’s Bellifortis, 15thC Germany.

[thegr8tfulred]

[nevver]

Et tu brital, Atlas of Brutalist Archiecture

[vintagelasvegas]

[vintagelasvegas]

A couple posing in front of Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, 1955. Kodachrome slide, VLV collection.

[s-h-o-w-a]

William Klein, ‘Subway, Tokyo’, 1961,

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Joan jetts leather jacket at the rock and roll hall of fame

[batixa]

[lesbianartandartists]

Maya Newell in 1993 with her two mothers, Liz Newell and Donna Ross. This was part of the Lovely Mothers series by Elisa Halland and Catherine Fargher, photographed by Marion Moore.

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扬州瘦西湖

Slender West Lake, Yangzhou city, China

[danskjavlarna]

The phrase “Love is self-devouring” delivers but a single Google result!  Here’s the uroboros encircling Cupid, from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Tragedy by William John Dixon and illustrated by N. C. Bishop-Culpeper, 1897.

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[reallyreallyreallytrying]

you there, boy. remind me of the fable of the five little piggies. here, use my toes

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How the Animals Bury the Hunter. Woodcut by Moritz Von Ritter Schwind, 1850

[mauveflwrs]

[thunderstruck9]

Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920), Two Jolly Cones, 2002. Oil on board, 27.9 x 21.5 cm.

via mauveflwrs

[youdonthavetogotocollege]

Hell yeah

[heksenkring]

Miniature tintypes (1” tall), c.1870.  via