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A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

(free pattern here!)

orpheus in spring by Jenny George

A feral appaloosa colt snacks on spartina at low tide at Cumberland Island National Seashore

i think makeup can be artistic expression i also think sometimes people are lying about it being about artistic expression and would in fact be a lot happier if they had never been told they had to wear it

the litmus test i use for this on myself is asking myself the question of "am i trying to bring something about myself out-- be it physical or emotional-- or am i trying to hide something?"

if you're using contour to hide a double chin it's not art anymore. i've had to tell myself this many times. you are worthy of being seen as you are. yes it is very scary but it's worth every second.

New World Warblers Parulidae

From Above: Pink-Headed Warbler, Spectacled Whitestart, Flame-Throated Warbler, Black-and-White Warbler, Black-Throated Blue Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler

Harvard University students have now set up their own encampment in solidarity with Palestine, demanding that the school also divests from Israel’s war on Gaza.

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TROMPE L'OEIL PAINTED PINE WORK BOX

19TH CENTURY

Lyon and Turnbull

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813

Chen Chen

wanted all my horses in one basket, as it were

I hate work I should be at the (remembers I don't want to go to the club) the imagination

the feminine urge to disguise yourself as a man and ride to minas tirith to die in battle with honour

the masculine urge to stand in a beautiful garden and fall in love at first sight with a brave and valiant warrior