A mighty companion will come to you

uni student they/them

[geschiedenis-en-talen]

Insanely funny to me when Americans pronounce Louvre as loov

[geschiedenis-en-talen]

@wisdomsdauqhter je kan dit niet gewoon in de tags laten ik lachte luidop

[dailyclassicart]

Filippo Palizzi - "Young lady at the excavations of Pompeii"

[hangsawoman]

on this day in 1953 shirley jackson sent this to an unhappy reader

[kocalls]

[metamorphesque]

"I did not do what was written...", Henrik Edoyan (translated by metamorphesque)

[metamorphesque]

If you're curious to find out what the poem sounds like in Armenian (or what Armenian sounds like), here it is being read by a heavenly voice.

[somerabbitholes]

took a long long walk and foraged some wild garlic today

[oldpaintings]

Eva Gonzalès  (French, 1849–1883)

[metamorphesque]

there is a moment between jumping from the frying pan into the fire that feels a lot like liberation

[metamorphesque]

Ivy (1901), Laurel (1901) by Alphonse Mucha

[jagkanbliintetal]

Dennis Miller Bunker (American, 1861-1890), Wild Asters, 1889. Oil on canvas, 64.14 x 76.83 cm.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Give me less "being kind requires zero effort" and more "being kind is worth the effort it takes."

[leebrontide]

Several years ago my car got stolen. So did my neighbors, that same night.

And the thing is, the kid doing it was a dumb young teenager who saw how on the internet.

And a bunch of people saw him doing this very dumb thing, even if they didn’t fully work out what had happened till the next day.

So it would have been easy for me and my neighbor to go to his family and demand compensation. The cars got found but needed a bunch of repair. We could have at least asked for our deductibles.

But that would have been thousands of dollars that this family renting a crappy little house couldn’t easily afford.

We could have reported the kid to the cops. He was guilty and we all knew it. It was within our legal rights to do it.

But nobody asked for money and nobody called the cops. We soaked the damage of the deductible (which was quite a bit!) even tho it hurt, and I was elected to tell his mother what he’d been up to.

And that was the end of it. He stopped doing it. We didn’t speak about it again.

Being kind was costly. Being kind was awkward. Being kind to that kid and his family wasn’t the easy thing to do.

But the alternative was placing too big a burden on his family, or putting a legal record on a little black boy for doing one very stupid thing as a teenager.

So we all decided it was worth the cost.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Weekly Industrial Worker, Seattle, Washington, April 6, 1918

[metamorphesque]

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Song of a Second April

[di-0n]

things i’m into right now: spring sun, post-rock, live music, actually being friends with my colleagues

inspired by this post, i’d like to make this a monthly thing :D

[en-theos]

2,500-year-old golden helmet recovered over a year after it was stolen from Dutch museum

Robbers used firework bombs to break into the Drents Museum in 2025, stealing the 5th-century BC golden Helmet of Cotofenesti and three gold

IT'S BACK BABEY

[frostedmagnolias]

Ring

18th century

gold, cabochon-cut sapphire

France

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

[annabellecrump]

Cabochon-cut stones are underrated. Everyone these days is all about the sparkle. But I'll take a rounded hunk of gemstone that looks like it came off King Alfred's crown any day.

[finisconoratopus]

DAY 9/34

i'm a wee poorly lad and i've only 3 days more to finish this essay

aesthetic studyblr is cancelled if u couldn't tell this is my life