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[curiosityistheleastofmyproblems]

Skeletons dancing. Etching by R. Stamper.

[purgeshubble-deactivated]

moodboard: lesbian peyton sawyer

[inaliem]

[spacettf]

[glowdetails]

Rihanna by Lorna Simpson for Essence January & February 2021 Issue

[propertiesofjoy]

endearments in letters to véra

[violettini]

Reem Acra RTW Fall 2016

[themakeupbrush]

Galia Lahav Spring 2017

[themakeupbrush]

Galia Lahav Spring 2017

[caveofthemorbid]

Divina Commedia - Inferno, Canto XXXII, Dante and Virgil before Lucifer Italian Manuscript; XIV Century

[kabaks]

sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard

[doomedvoyages]

[phantom-tail]

If this little book should see the light after its 100 years of entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the political equality and social and moral elevation of women.

“The Great Geysers of California” by Laura De Force Gordon, 1879, unearthed from a 100-year-old time capsule in San Francisco, 1979.

[levourdalak]

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.”

Gordon Bowsher to Gilbert Bradley, 1940s

[cottagesongs]

[authemn]

image

[achasma]

Nicolás de Tolentino (detail) by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, 1601.

[jaanjahan]

— i’m fine with my spite and my tears and my beers and my candles. 📖☕️🕯

[october5th2016]

subwayhands + reading

[lucidus-ordo]

people always tell me “oh but you always reread the same three books” like yeah bitch i stole my personality from them sometimes i need to brush up on the details