i think everyone needs to adopt "i didnt say it was good, i said i liked it" into their vocabulary right now. it did me wonders
"i want to show my friends the media i enjoy but its not considered good so i wont" is such a bad thought process. i once made my friends watch my favourite childhood movie with me which has a 1% rating on rotten tomatoes and i cackled with glee as they groaned in agony for an hour and a half. but yknow what? thats what friends are for.
Anna May Wong, 1929. Photo by Paul Tanqueray
i read CS Lewis’ A Grief Observed one time years ago and i’m still not recovered from it
— A Grief Observed: part i-ii, C.S. Lewis x
I need y'all to understand that he wrote this famous passage in the middle of her brief remission -
'Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose.' 'Don’t put your goods in a leaky vessel.' 'Don’t spend too much on a house you may be turned out of.' There is no man alive who responds more naturally than I to such canny maxims. I am a safety-first creature. Of all arguments against love none makes so strong an appeal to my nature as “Careful! This might lead you to suffering”. There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
Beautiful from Ordinary Days
Vastra-Haran, or Celestial Stripping (detail). Anonymous ~ 19th century. National Museum New Delhi • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB
Riad Dar El Malaika in El Jadida, Morocco
The Scream, oil on canvas by Gnevol
Liz McGowan: Fern Ammonite (1992)
Circa 1825 Amethyst Parure In The Mellerio dits Meller Archives
thinking abt couples kissing in front of klimt’s kiss
What has 8 arms, 9 brains, 3 hearts, and 2,240 suckers? Goji, the giant Pacific octopus, of course!
i love you cities. i love you sounds of people. i love you cacophony of scents at dinner time as everyone cooks different food up and down the street. i love you neighbors playing loud music on the front stairs and laughing even louder. i love you rambunctious kids running down the street in the summer getting up to god knows what. i love you corner stores. i love you big cookouts and block parties. i love you spring wildflowers popping up in overgrown empty lots. i love you weeds growing from in cement cracks. i love you scent of clove cigarettes on the air. i love you friends running into each other on the sidewalk. i love you passing conversations in different languages. i love you grandmas on the bus. i love you graffiti. i love you murals. i love you kids’ sidewalk chalk hopscotch. i love you sounds of people cooking and doing dishes and listening to music floating out cracked kitchen windows. i love y
The Silver Rivers, South Iceland (2019)
Argentina Moreno Glacier By David Curtis — 2006
Gaston de Latenay, Nausikaa scans by Book Graphics blogspot/2014
