“IN THE FIELD || בשדה”, @nathanielorion / “War, The First Discord”, De Scott Evans / “Cain slaying Abel”, Gioacchino Assereto / “Cain and Abel”, Laszlo Mathe

finishing supersonic.

just sang along to a live cover of wonderwall at the top of my lungs in an irish pub i take back what i said about oasis

just sang along to a live cover of wonderwall at the top of my lungs in an irish pub i take back what i said about oasis

“the shipwreck” by w.s. merwin

"who gets to decide if art is "bad"?" me.

Nigerian artist Chidinma Nnoli

Chiharu Shiota: Conversations Between Others (2023)

The funny thing about sex scene discourse is that people act like they're all exactly the same. Imagine if we talked about any other kind of scene in a movie like that. Oh I hate fight scenes they're never necessary. Post cancelled I think I've heard people saying that let me start over. Hmm

I’m bored and nosy. Please reblog this with the book you’re currently reading.

Instead of apologizing for liking "trashy" media, consider: what is it doing well? If you like it, if it's making you feel pleasure and interest, then it must be succeeding at something. Is it shaping a set of emotional beats that you find satisfying to watch play out? Did it craft a character you find really compelling? Is something in the styling and aesthetics speaking to you? Did it unexpectedly resonate with a mood or experience you needed to see reflected right then?

However shallow or flawed a piece of media is, if you like it, it's because of something it did well - at least well enough to affect you, on the day that you encountered it.

There are a lot of good reasons to acknowledge this. One is about gratitude and manners: someone worked hard on that thing, and if they provided something that gave you happiness and pleasure, it's nice to honor that. Another is about breaking down the insidious habit of sorting everything into simple good/bad boxes. A piece of media, like a person, can do a lot of things wrong and a lot of things right, and the things on one side do not magically erase the other.

But the most important reason, I believe, is to get in the habit of celebrating what brings you pleasure and happiness. All your life there have been and there will be people telling you that you find joy in the wrong things, that if a particular thing makes you feel good it shows that there's something wrong with you. I reject that utterly. If a particular thing makes you feel good then there's something right, about you and about that thing. I'm not saying that pleasure is the only important thing or that every pleasure should be indulged indiscriminately. All I'm saying is that pleasure is in and of itself a good thing, and deserves notice.

SHIN GODZILLA (2016) dir. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi

giovanni’s room, james baldwin

Cate Blanchette | All Tied Up

Sean and Seng, 2013

Yoko Ono, 1961

heads up my blog will probably be running mostly on queue for this entire month

i am the coward who did not pick up the phone, laura kasischke

in london what’s good