A Little Irony

Jane Fonda cooking at home in her New York apartment, 1960

(via Matthew 4:20)

*sets entire english language on fire*

Thereby showing that the phenomenon that gave use gems like “PIN number” and “ATM machine” (also known as the self-demonstrating RAS syndrome, i.e. “redundant acronym syndrome syndrome”) is actually age-old :).

This is fantastic

i am eternally aggreived on behalf of people who were clearly never taught what literary analysis can be. people who were never shown the incredible satisfaction when you see something in a piece of literature and you can /prove/ it’s there, the slow and careful tugging at an image, at chasing implication and meaning, at pushing and pushing until it all falls into place.

sometimes that looks like catching a “throwaway” line in a novel (“[the drawings] remembered Beardsley”) and chasing that single image until you have five thousand words about attempted freedom, conformity, and inescapability.

sometimes that looks like noticing a motif of reused roman ruins and going through and through until you can argue about colonising gaze and welsh devolution.

sometimes that means reading a novel where every chapter tells a story of someone telling a story and proving that that is an attempt at catharsis that fails.

it’s not all “the curtains are blue therefore the character is sad”

and besides, that’s actually “this character seems sad but the author never says so > how does the author create that? > oh hey there sure are a lot of washed out or cool colours in this scene > wait hold on the furnishings are almost obsessively described > does that say something about material culture? can i parallel that against appearances vs reality? > “in this essay i will argue that this short story interrogates arts and crafts aesthetic ideals by portraying an obsession with furnishings that ultimately leads the main character into despair. In order to do so let me first demonstate the connection between the furnishings and the emotional state of the main character”

The suitors when Penelope says she’s still not finished Odysseus’ funeral shroud even though she’s been working on it for three years straight

im starting a gang and we’re gonna go out and destroy every golf course. rip up all the grass and replace it with native plants and fruit trees and shit. we move at midnight be there or be a casualty of the revolution

Absolutely heartbreaking. The world has lost one of it’s last shinning lights.

Rest in Power, Aretha Louise Franklin.

lapetitealiceshop 

Angel to Buffy probably…  (via mrsgordo84)

You know when stevie nicks was like listen to the wind blow, down comes the night runing in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies. break the silence, damn the dark, damn the light

Still don’t know what fortnite is about

Like. Supposedly it’s really popular? The numbers don’t lie. But I haven’t seen or heard a single person actively talk about or recommend it. It’s got that weird combination of incredible success and zero cultural impact.

Like James Cameron’s Avatar

Listen i know tumblr has a very pro-robot attitude but nothing on this earth is scarier than a printer churning out something when it absolutely Should Not Be

— Odyssey 24.303-4, trans. Emily Wilson (via terpsikeraunos)

This is it, this is the book, we’re done folks Emily won.

Me: *going about my life, accomplishing normal life milestones*

My brain: There are castles for sale. In the European countryside. Buy one. Disappear. Adopt a flock of ravens. Become a local legend.

when a song sucks but gets twelve points anyway

When your favorite song barely gets any points

when australia is in the eurovision