may sarton, journal of a solitude
learning to cheerfully dislike other people is I think a critical component of getting along with people who don't like you. Like as soon as I got a solid grasp on the fact that there is a wide swath of humanity that gets on my nerves and that it's my problem, not theirs, it got easier to be around people I find annoying. Once that's settled, it's easy to flip the reasoning around and conclude that if someone doesn't like me, that's a quirk of their own strange and arbitrary tastes, not a judgment upon either of us as a person. You can't like everyone. Not everyone will like you. It's fine. It's not a personal attack in either direction. We can exchange cordial nods across the room and then go on with our lives
Karoliina Hellberg (Finnish, b. 1987, Porvoo, Finland, based Helsinki, Finland) - Forget Me Nots, 2017, Paintings: Acrylics, Oil on Canvas
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Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) "Man at His Bath" (1884) Oil on canvas Impressionism Located in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States This painting (measuring at 144.8 x 114.3 cm (57 x 45 in.)) presents an unusually intimate scene from everyday life at the grand scale once reserved for formal history subjects. The tin tub and discarded nightshirt at right, along with the clothing draped neatly upon the chair and the emphatically contemporary boots, make this man less nude in a classical sense than frankly naked. The muscular tension, disheveled hair, and wet footprints on the parquet indicate the physicality of an actual body at work—having just left the bath and now vigorously toweling off—rather than an idealized body undertaking an imagined heroic action. Positioned at close proximity to the viewer—this most private of moments made public—this man, back turned and head bowed, nevertheless remains decidedly separate.
Al Buell - May 1961 Al Buell's Beauties Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co.
when you were little it was like closing your eyes to the sun to create a kaleidoscope of colors behind your eyelids and it was so present and you took it for granted and now its a boat on the water at night and its so far away and you have to search for it and if you close your eyes it vanishes so you stay on the shore hungry and transfixed .... oh you know ....
It’s nuts how men regularly commit mass murder and we’re supposed to ignore how gender factors into this horrific phenomenon…Women can literally be told by the state that they’ll be prosecuted if they try to terminate a pregnancy induced by their rapist but men have the audacity and entitlement to think their anger is special enough that an entire crowd of people should suffer and die because of it.
It’s the socialization, in my opinion.
Women face severe hardship and unhappiness all the time and statistically rarely commit violent crime because of it, especially not mass shootings, because as a class, we’re never told by society at large that people should pay for our struggles (and instead, we’re usually told our struggles aren’t real and sexism itself is all in our heads). But from when they are boys, men are told that they should have everything (especially women and our bodies) handed to them, and when they don’t get what they’re supposedly entitled to just by virtue of existing as a man in the patriarchy, it’s acceptable to “be a man” and enact revenge upon the world.
Men’s delusional entitlement kills people.
couples themed photoshoots and old romance films have such a Grip on me they're all so destian and it makes me unwell LIKE
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Study of a young woman in profile by Salomon de Bray (1597 – 11 May 1664)
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the "no spoiler culture", mainly perpetuated by the marvel cinematic universe, that pushes the idea that a story is only worth watching and telling if the audience knows absolutely nothing about it beforehand, has done irreparable damage to storytelling and how an audience interacts with the story. in this essay i will-
Samantha Jones for Revlon “Moon Drops,” 1968 to 1969, photographed by Richard Avedon.
the thing about having hope is that it is so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so difficult. but you have to do it anyway
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