vincent d’onofrio is making out with God

tryin her best

[fishpondfish]

it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible

[mousidy]

and yet they keep making movies with the hopes that one day humanity will discover a way to watch them. it's so inspiring

[holespoles]

"Shimmering night" by Inaslind.

[huariqueje]

Parasol - Arjan van Helmond , 2024.

Dutch, b. 1971 -

Gouache and acrylic on paper on canvas , camara oscura

[rearte2]

by Mark Rothko, 1969

[thunderstruck9]

Howard Kanovitz (American, 1929-2009), Cloud Window, 1970. Acrylic on canvas laid down on plywood board, 138.5 × 95.5 cm.

[heedra]

really losing my patience for any 'feminist' statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z'. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[pippindot]

ummm found it like this

[souvenirs]

[waytooseriousabouteverything]

May Books

Have I finished Jane Eyre yet? No! Will I finish Jane Eyre before my book club meets on the 7th? probably :)

Famesick - I've always had a general fondness for Lena Dunham and this was extremely compelling. Good gossip. Felt honest and affecting. She's a great and clear storyteller. A couple moments that will make you say "ohhhh Lena Dunham, okayyyyyy girl" but I think that SHOULD be the case in a good memoir.

Artificial Condition*/Rogue Protocol*/Exit Strategy*/Fugitive Telemetry*/Network Effect*/System Collapse* - Nice :) For some reason I always think I don't like Rogue Protocol but it might be my favourite of the novellas. Also I think I was a hater about System Collapse when I first read it because I thought it was really samey to Network Effect which I really don't think is true anymore! What a life!

Platform Decay - New MB hence the reread of everything else. A few really special moments but I mostly only thought this was fine. Perhaps in a year when I reread the whole series I will like it more. Ever since I read A Room of One's Own I can't stop going "undigested!!!!" big undigested vibes in parts of this one.

American Fantasy - Finally!!!!!!! I love Emma Straub's newsletters and it's been the great mystery of her fiction that someone whose thoughts I find so charming and readable is writing so much fiction that I am mid to cold on. This was it though! The book that finally lived up to how much I love her substack. Charming, lovely, romantic, wonderful. I just thought this was so fun, every POV really additive to the story. Much less simple than I was kind of expecting and I loved it!

Troubled Waters* - Yay! Went to a massive used book store this month and found a bunch of Sharon Shinn :)

Beguiling the Beauty/Tempting the Bride/Ravishing the Heiress - Okay well awesome tbh. Really great time had by me. Read all three in one fell swoop.

The Luckiest Lady in London/His at Night - Didn't like these as much as the other trilogy but cannot deny Thomas has the sauce.

Dolly All the Time - New Annabel Monaghan! Romantic! I love how she writes relationships and she's the one author who I consistently like child/parent relationships from. She really intros some class stuff in this that doesn't feel fully thought through or convincing and that is the strongest impression I am left with after reading the book. Still liked it though, she's too good at atmosphere and family and friendship for me not to have a good time.

A Substitute Wife for the Prizefighter - You might remember that I have had the same set of like 30 library books on my ereader for the last, idk, four-six years and every year I say that I'm going to read them and then I don't again. Well! I still didn't read them but I finally decided to give up and put some new books on there because, to be frank, it was past time. In the process of transferring all the ebooks I have on my phone etc I found this Coldbreath that I grabbed a copy of whenever I was reading a bunch of her stuff. Largely it was unconvincing and sort of vague but she can write the shit out of a festival! Inspired me to read A Most Maligned Miss from her which was batshit and awesome.

A Long and Speaking Silence - Newest Singing Hills novella. Dunno if I'm just in a huge hater mood but this didn't do much for me at all. Felt really shallow and obvious and didactic. The idea of seeing Chih before they're very good at what they do is interesting but I didn't connect with any of the stories or feelings in this in any real way.

[waytooseriousabouteverything]

Many of my problems right now are of the variety that's like you could solve this if you were willing to be less of a weenie and have an uncomfortable conversation. Which are the worst kinds of problems to have because you can't even get a good complain about them going because everyone will judge you for being a coward and they are right.

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of texture

[end0parasite]

emoji kitchen is lowkey beautiful guys…

[cosmicanger]

Alice dos Reis, Monastery on the Moon 3, 2024, Handwoven tapestry, organic wool, acrylic frame, 27,5 x 33,2 cm

[earllundquist]

On the mountain trails of west Texas.

[safije]

Katie Harris is photographed with her Appaloosa. Harris made most of the horse trappings as well as her own traditional outfits herself, including the bead work. Some of the trappings are passed down from older generations but the girls like to make their own to continue the tradition.

By Erika Larsen

[mymotherthemountain]

Katie is Nez Perce, Cayuse, Umatilla and Karuk

[myselfandsomeotherbeing]

"Lesbian welders, San Francisco", n.d. From the Visual Arts Legacy Collection (JSTOR)