kinder than man, althea davis

when jenny slate said “I realize I want to hear my voice and only mine. Not the voice of my voice within a cacophony of old pains. Just mine, now.” and when toni morrison said “I want to feel what I feel. What’s mine. Even if it’s not happiness, whatever that means. Because you’re all you’ve got.” and when mary oliver said

MARTIAL LAW (1997) dir. Jon Red, Jeannette Ifurung

« Si je devais fixer un but à l'écriture, ce serait qu'elle me permette de retrouver l'élan amoureux, mais sur d'autres bases. Mon objectif n'est pas d'éviter la souffrance à tout prix : l'amour est toujours un risque à courir, le paradis et l'enfer s'y côtoient ; mais je crois que quand on est une femme, il y a souffrir et souffrir. »

Mona Chollet, Réinventer l'amour

富士山 Mt. Fuji by Masayuki Nozaki

I work in a museum so I am the last person you want to visit a museum with. Unless you want to hear an endless stream of "there is no way this text had input from the educational team for average visitor clarity" "the old woman next to me complained she couldn't read the didactic panel and she's right, size 20 font simply isn't sufficient for this distance and even I can't read it" and "how does the brand new wing still have coat hooks five and a half feet off the ground in the handicap bathroom stall"

*in tears* february will be my month!!!!!!!

Purple-gold jumping spider, Irura bidenticulata, Salticidae

Found in Southeast Asia

Photo 1 by bemcola, 2 by portioid, 3 by andrewhardacre, 4 by lawrencehylton, 5 by kitlaw, 6-7 by pauldickson, 8 by lawrencehylton, 9 by andrewhardacre, and 10 for scale by gohulee

got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

my darling tsukki!

the ugly and the flawless beauty of us

No reader, native or foreign, can enjoy Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo without knowing the circumstances that led the author to conceive them and the reason for their being. The humor, the irony, the piercing satire in their pages would be lost on the reader if he does not understand the historical background of those novels. I once said at another time and place that Rizal’s novels are not, properly speaking, fiction. They are socio-historical novels which give us an intimate glimpse into the condition of Philippine society and the manner and morals of the people — the natives as well as the Spanish rulers — at a definite point in time. To look upon them as pure fiction is to misread Rizal’s intent and purpose.

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo, from History as Humanistic Studies

no one is watching,

so why does it have to be beautiful ?

you, in pain, are no closer to god than

you, in the drive-thru or

you, checking your email or

you, holding your own hand

elle emerson, « regarding the röttgen pietà »

Bazen kısacık bir bakış her şeyi anlatabilir. ama asıl önemli olan bunu anlayabilene denk gelmek..

A meaningful look..