Ellis Tolsma

Pivoting back to Tumblr !! Enjoy this candy apple from my sweetness risoprint series. I recently started a riso studio, so go check allll my prints out :)

‘relationships are work’ means ‘you have to put effort into loving each other intentionally & learning how to love each other and communicating properly’ not ‘your relationship makes you feel stressed and sad most of the time & the other person disrespects you and treats you bad but you stay anyway’

perfect .. 

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you could all learn a lesson from grimes. you can’t always fix him. sometimes he makes you worse instead

Folk art painted blanket chest, Ohio

Red Glass Goldfish Jar 清 (Qing Period)

Having ur main emotional response be crying is so embarrassing like ill be trying to explain why im mad or ill try having a serious convo abt smthn that upsets me and ill start crying like a baby and i have to like turn around and go “i am not crying 4 pity or to emotionally manipulate u im crying cuz im a little bitch, give me a sec”

Fragments of Glass Floral Inlays

Egypt, Ptolemaic Period–Roman Period, (1st century BCE–1st century CE)

In ancient Rome, there was a high demand for colorful glass that could dazzle banquet guests alongside the expensive silver and gold serving wares meant to impress. Fragments like these would have once been a part of larger mosaic dishes.

Art Institute of Chicago

Schiaparelli’s Zodiac necklace 1938

i hate when people critique movies by saying “nothing happened” as if the only measurement of a films quality is the amount plot you can jam in it. are shapes and colours not fucking enough for you. can’t you just vibe. the only movies i care about are about people stumbling around in midst of an unsettling atmosphere, making obscure references with fuck-all being explained all while i feel indescribable emotions to big for my heart looking at the screen. everything else is trivial

:(

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight explores one of the oldest and most profound narrative archetypes, to wit: "What if there was this really weird guy who showed up?"