I've seen the shortened version of Cab Calloway's St James Infirmary Blues from the Betty Boop Snow White 1933 cartoon on Tumblr a few times, thought you'd all like the full version.

The Cat’s Out (1931)

the posture of a man

“Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.”

— Paul Valery

Early Morning in Chamonix

Sakura | ( by Peter Yan )

Durdle Door, Jurassic Coast

i don't need any more friend because i have one very big friend, here he is

every single day i think about how horribly rumi’s poems have been translated from persian into english & how they’ve been turned from gorgeous poems abt islamic spirituality into these… pithy vapid little quotes that white people post as instagram captions. white scholars & translators straight-up falsified and misrepresented the essential themes of and islamic mysticism inherent to his work in favor of turning it into easy-to-consume love poetry & it never fails to make me angry

“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.”

— Brian Aldiss