complete sincerity

[thoodleoo]

really love this ancient letter from a kid named theon to his dad (p. ox. 1 119) because it's so ridiculously salty and rude ("WOW dad it was SO COOL of you NOT to take me to alexandria with you"), incredibly demanding ("bring me with you or i'm going to stop eating and drinking and i'll never speak to you again") and then ends with the appropriately polite typical close to a letter ("i pray that you are in good health"). truly exactly what i would expect from a moody child.

[dawatcher]

[ducissatenebrarum]

"hephaistion made this" in a beautiful trompe-l'oeil piece of paper half unstuck by the wind still some of the rawest stuff ever put in a mosaic (2nd century bc, pergamon)

[uchidiva]

[exhaled-spirals]

« True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root, Must let their hands grow knotted as they move With a rough sensitivity about Under the earth, between the rock and shoot, Never to bruise or wound the hidden fruit. And so I watched my mother's hands grow scarred, She who could heal the wounded plant or friend With the same vulnerable yet rigorous love; I minded once to see her beauty gnarled, But now her truth is given me to live, As I learn for myself we must be hard To move among the tender with an open hand, And to stay sensitive up to the end Pay with some toughness for a gentle world. »

— May Sarton, "An Observation"

[life-on-our-planet]

eepy mourning dove cupping its wings under its belly for cushion ©Ella

[lnwolffeugene]

Illustrations from The Function of Colour in Factories, Schools and Hospitals, Jenson & Nicholson Ltd. (1930)

[e14jxx]

— Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

[heartpdf]

[important-cat-pics]

[holespoles]

Kaoru Sugino

"The Fancy Cat Parade"

すぎのかおる

「おめかしネコちゃんのパレード」

[rounni]

[s1ck0]

__yujing

[generic-art]

Vintage Girl Scouts of America ‘Brownie’ pocket knife

[trasemc]

I took these photos on my phone the other day

[auf-heben]

240 fps

[alwayswasalwayswillbeourland]

Homesick

Larrakia Sunset - Me // (lyrics) Djapana - Yothu Yindi // Ngarluma Spinifex - Me // (lyrics) Beds are burning - Midnight Oil // Ngarluma spinifex on hill - me // (Lyrics) My Island Home - Warumpi Band // Traditional Aboriginal Dance - Taken from Djapana MV - Yothu Yindi // (lyrics) My Island Home - Warumpi Band // Ngarluma Beach - me // (lyrics) Never be the same - Jessica Mauboy // Ant Hill Larrakia - me // (lyrics) Weir - Killing Heidi // Beach Ngarluma - me // (Lyrics) Djapana - Yothu Yindi

[positivelyqueer]

[ID: a series of photographs and screenshots of text. 1. a vibrant pink, orange, violet and yellow clouded sunset. In the foreground are the silhouettes of eucalyptus trees. 2. text: “Look at the sun, falling from the sky. and the sunset\takes my mind, back to my homeland, far away.” 3. spinifex scrub brush on the side of a dirt road under a pale blue sky. 4. text: “The Western Desert lives and breathes in forty-five degrees.” 5. a red dirt cliff covered in sparse spinifex scrub under a pale blue sky. 6. text: “For I come from the saltwater people, we’ve always lived by the sea, now I’m out here west of Alice Springs.” 7. a close up of the barefoot legs of three people dancing. They have kicked up dust and the image is hazy orange and silhouetted. 8. text: “In the evening the dry wind blows from the hills and across the plain. I close my eyes and I’m standing in a boat on the sea again.” 9. Ngarluma Beach in pre-dawn light, with dark water, sand and an outcrop of low dense trees and bushes. 10. text: “Cause when you’re standing there all alone, losing everything you’ve ever known.” 11. a distance photo of a tall anthill on an otherwise flat field with dense grasses and a row of trees in the distance. 12. text: “[Chorus] Will you make it in the end, through all the twists and bends? Will you fulfil your dreams? Not as easy as it seems.” 13. deep footprints in the sand, scattered with rocks and sea shells. 14. text: “So live it up, Live it up, Live it up, Live it up, Live it up, With sunset dreaming.” /end ID]