Porcelain art by Nguyễn Duy Mạnh, 2021-23
Jeremy Miranda (American b.1980), Cooking, 2024, Oil on panel
THE X-FILES | 1.02
he is like a girl mutual to me
That blanket rules and I wish I had the attention span to make one
ME
[ID: a tiktok showing a person on a train looking serious with the caption, "4 hour train ride thank god i have my headphones and haven't gotten over anything in my entire life". End ID]
[/ID: tweets by @/chenchenwrites, saying: “one of my pet peeves is the belief that a poem is just a more complicated way of saying something you could say plainly. no. at its best, every line of a poem is actually the simplest way you could say something—it's just that the something is complicated & strange & alive.
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a poem inhabits its own clarity, which may be deeply mysterious but that's different from unclear. and at its best, it is an unparaphrasable clarity. it says what cannot otherwise be said—and it is an encounter with the unsayable (sometimes in the same line!)
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a poem is not ornament. it is oracle. vital opening into wonder.” /end ID]
That cheese you like is going to come back in style…
i love you, Two Catfish as Street Musicians in the Kashina district, ca 1855 of an unidentified artist, you go so hard
Doctor Who | 1.09 - "The Empty Child"
ninny, the invisible child
"Un de ces longs bras glissa par l’ouverture"
Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Long Arm Glided
Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870
Kabru 🗡️
Illustrations for Acts III - V from Shakespeare’s Hamlet by John Austen (1922)