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“I was never quite sure whether George Harrison liked me taking pictures of him, because he usually had such a serious face. But one day he saw me pointing my camera at him, and he started hamming it up by putting tambourines on his head, so I guess he didn’t mind.”
- Linda McCartney
Nina Simone by Chuck Stewart 1958
— BERTOLT BRECHT, trans. John Willett.
Today I learned that theatre can be good
please stop spreading misinformation
intermission
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Corn Swinging the Hair.
Ōta Memorial Museum of Art
Fragments of Horror ("Dissection Girl") // Junji Ito
And they say romance is dead
Ushiku Daibutsu, Japan. Photography by Yuya.M @yuyar33
I was recently sexually propositioned by the platonic idea of femaleness; and I said sorry but I'm not into women; and it said it doesn't HAVE the trait of being female, it IS the trait of being female, fucking it would be like fucking a piece of paper with the word woman on it; and i said that doesn't sound particularly pleasurable; and it said that wasn't a description, it was just an analogy to demonstrate that us having sex would not be incompatible with my nongynephilia; and i said you know all this gender stuff aside, doesn't it seem kinda problematic for a form to have sex with a being, like, you've existed for thousands of times longer than i have; and it said that its not the same concept of femaleness that existed thirty years ago, gender norms are constantly changing; and i said so what us beings are constantly changing too but we still count our ages from when we were born; and it flipped me off and called me a puriteen.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828-1882)
Study for Desdemona’s Death Song
I lost my virginity when a cruel philosopher ontologically redefined virginity
ruth negga via instagram
Suspended in Gaffa - Kate Bush
“Whenever I’ve sung this song I’ve hoped that my breath would hold out for the first few phrases, as there is no gap to breathe in. When I wrote this track the words came at the same time, and this is one of the few songs where the lyrics were complete at such an early stage. The idea of the song is that of being given a glimpse of ‘God’ - something that we dearly want - but being told that unless we work for it, we will never see it again, and even then, we might not be worthy of it. The choruses are meant to express the feeling of entering timelessness as you become ready for the experience, but only when you are ready.” (1982)
