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intheobituaries · 3 months

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A glimpse of a day and Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh.

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tolive-forever · 5 months

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

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thefearofcod · 3 days

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What your western classics tattoo means:

-Inferno: cringe. you think about hell a lot but don’t believe in god. You like the boiling river of shit. You say you think Paolo and Francesca are romantic but you don’t understand courtly love.

-Purgatorio: pretty good. You probably payed attention to the reading. You should take up endurance hiking with a bag of rocks

-Paradiso: excellent. You’re annoying about the existence of the sublime in music. You were really into string theory in middle school. If I give you a drink you’ll start talking about Hildegard

-Lysistrata: you had a lesbian separatist phase. You're really into your community garden, or you want to be. Every thirteen months, one of your posts goes viral

-Iliad: your meat is huge

-Odyssey: your wife is smarter than you. You're a killer tabletop DM. You would fuck a witch if pressed

-Don Quixote: based. unless it's the picasso illustrations, then you're basic.

-Pascal: if it's math, you're gay. if it's philosophy, you're a stoner

-Aeneid: you also have a tattoo of the Capitoline Wolf. You love the origin story part of superhero movies

-Middlemarch: you don't exist. nobody has a middlemarch tattoo

-Jane Austen's works: you're the person people text "can i be mean." You're good at parties but you hate them. You're think you're funnier online than in person

-just the word "logos" in Greek: you didn't do the reading

-Sappho: you are a trans lesbian

-Proust: you post a lot of "slut in theory" memes. you get anxious going to the seven-eleven

-Euclid: you taught yourself to draw a perfect circle. You think about geological formations a lot. You've memorized that Edna St. Vincent Millay poem

-Herodotus: you're a worldbuilding geek. You wanted to talk about the necrophilia passage more in class. You will buy any novel with a map at the front

#tattoos #western classics #western literature #free to reblog #make your speeches to the foxes general

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that-butch-archivist · 20 days

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"Don't cut your nails until after the third date." (Photographed by Phyllis Christopher.)

source: The Femme's Guide to the Universe, written by Shar Rednour

#lesbian literature #lesbian #dyke #thatbutcharchivist #archived #lesbian books #lesbian photography #publisher: alyson publications inc.#femme #femme lesbian #femme dyke #femme4butch #femme4femme #femme4all #year: 2000 #author: shar rednour #photographer: phyllis christopher #the femme's guide to the universe #the tattoo reads 'Sharlene'

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sydcarmyfan · 4 months

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You got a fast car; I got a plan to get us outta here

- Fast Car, Tracy Chapman

#Did Syd get the car tattoo at a time when she wanted to escape her current life?#in literature a car can be a symbol for escape #it’s not a coincidence that Syd has a car tattoo #when fast car plays in s3 then what?#he’s got a restaurant and she has a plan maybe together they can get somewhere #sydcarmy #sydney adamu #carmen berzatto #the bear #car symbolism in the bear #tracy chapman #fast car

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thepersonalwords · 7 days

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She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.

Robert M. Drake

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saranilssonbooks · 20 days

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Happy birthday, boys!!

Sixth and seventh tattoo. First drawings I made in over two years after having been delightfully crippled to the point of not being able to dress myself.

All in all they took 9 hours 30 minutes. I was very happy and very tired and man, was that hat area sore afterward!

(Oh, the woes of photographing the back of your own arms.)

#moby dick #herman melville #obsession #literature #classic literature #book characters #ishmael #captain ahab #whale weekly #tattoo #tattoos #my tattoos #book tattoos #my art #my design #i want more tattoos #moby dick tattoos

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judelectercoded · 6 days

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🖤Jude St. Francis is part of my DNA🖤

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intheobituaries · 2 months

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I miss ya’ll. I’ve been SO busy with school, interning, and work.

#mortuary science #study motivation #studyblr #academia #bookworm #dark academia #studyspo #dark acadamia aesthetic #literature #uni life #study blog #studying #study inspiration #study notes #study #study aesthetic #style #tattoos #intheobituaries

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melankollik · 2 years

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#art #books & libraries #film photography #literature #photography #poetry #b&m #aestehtic #tattoos

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yourladysteel · 3 months

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There's rosemary, that's for remembrance

Walter Crane, Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden

Pinterest: yourladysteel <3

#yourladysteel #mine #tattoos #aesthetic #art #grunge #literature #cottagecore #dark academia #light academia #english literature #shakespeare #william shakespeare #ophelia #hamlet

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diagic · 10 months

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Sword in the Stone, 2023

#original art #pointillism #art #linework #sword #sword in the stone #illustrator #illustration #artist on tumblr #blackwork #mixed media #literature #knights of the round table #king arthur #line work #dotwork #tattoo #tattoos

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postmail · 2 months

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A strange, dead, white whale washes ashore; the local schoolteacher is dragged out to see it by the younger of his students, who want to know if this is the mysterious 'Moby-Dick' he's told them all so much about.

#alto art #moby dick #me: i need to figure out how to draw ahab #also me: hehe ishmael comics go brrrr #ishmael moby dick #ishmael #herman melville #literature #firealpaca #i just realized i made moby dick too small... fuck #hey look dont worry about it. they put him in the dryer and he shrank. okay?#i cant draw whales but that can't stop me #i like this one actually. gradient go brr #its like i can see the flaws and im aware of them but somehow i dont care. i still think it looks good. its a weird feeling #ive had this idea for AGES you dont even knowwww #i hope you can tell what im going for/ whats going on in this one #edit: FUCK I FORGOT POST-CANON ISHMAEL TATTOOS. ARGGHHHH #WHY DOES THIS KEEPS HAPPENING

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herigo · 5 months

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heartshapedkidneystone · 5 months

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ghost gf

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pearl-kite · 1 year

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I was going to also make a ref sheet for Gale for my first art fight, but now that I have that research exception I imagine I'm going to be spending pretty much all of my free time cramming 6 months of capstone into 6 weeks, so

So here, have what I had finished before, because there's currently no reason for me to finish any outfits v_v

#kirehn draws #I love them so much and I neglect them so much #not even technically finished because not enough scars BUT this is as finished as it'll be for the foreseeable future #ain't no way I'm actually drawing those tattoos you get them ONCE and then copy/paste/warped to fit #I have so much to read for this capstone #need four sources for the proposal and then FIFTEEN (15) for the literature review portion #my brain is going to melt #very tempted to print articles out at work to read and annotate in my downtime but I don't think they'll approve of me using the paper #you know it's probably fitting that Gale ended up as my Sidestep because they have the SHITTIEST luck #pk:ocs #pk:gale #fhr #other than tattoo flash designs I'm trying to do for a portfolio this may be the last thing I draw for a while :c

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