“Ophelia,” by John William Waterhouse (1910)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
hozier calling a woman's body the gateway to the world and saying how it will never belong to religion or to men i'm about to start crying and throwing up
sorry for seeing the divine in the monstrous. not my fault.
sorry for making the divine monstrous. that one is my fault i take full credit for it.
When Ursula K. Le Guin said that all the old stories tell us about hunting but really 65% of their diets were foraged, collected and gathered. And the only reason the stories persisted were because they were stories, frightening and heroic. And when Virginia Woolf tried to re-write the English language she wanted to replace the word Heroism with Botulism which is a kind of food poisoning. And heroes all started as men who almost died trying to hunt for food, food that wouldn’t be stored properly. And this idea of heroism started to infect our idea of humanity and how it started. And how Ursula K Le Guin said she wasn’t human if humanity was all about violence and hunting. And when Lillian Smith said that What Freud mistook for her lack of civilization is woman’s lack of loyalty to civilization because what history tells us is human is largely the story of men. And the story of men is pointed violent weapons, active things. And the lost history is that of the carrier, the recipient, the weaved basket used to carry grains. And the lost history is that of the women and how they too are carrier, recipients, almost passive holders of all the life they gathered.
man smoking on the balcony asked me whether the government has fallen yet the truest most realistic italian summer mood
““I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I… I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more…never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment, right then.””
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just so u know everything in the entire universe is always about love and when it isn't about love it is abt the absence of love. hope this makes sense
Sheena Ringo for Ongaku to Hito (音楽と人) magazine, February, 2000.
turns out my life purpose isn’t supposed to be as small and silent and accommodating and convenient as possible
MATRIX IS FOR QUEER PEOPLE SO IF YOU DONT GET IT IM SORRY BUT I HAVE TO TELL YOU SOMETHING
The Matrix: Resurrections (2021) dir. Lana Wachowski
being in your 20s is just going through everyday wondering is this a defining moment? is this a defining moment? is this a defining moment? is this a defining mo