You See A Tiny Sign Planted In The Ground. Bending Down To Read, You Just Make Out, In Impossibly Tiny

The Bathing Pool, c. 1753. Hubert Robert

Worth gowns, ca. 1900

anyone else wonder if the rise in dnd podcast popularity is an ingrained human response to the folkloric tradition of sitting in a circle telling each other stories or is just me

Vanitas (Detail) - Edwaert Collier

Honestly, the reason monsterfucker discourse is useless is that nobody can agree upon a working definition of “monster”. It could mean anything from “attracted to dudes with pointy teeth” to “wants to somehow get railed by the concept of universal entropy”. All labeling someone a monsterfucker really tells us is that they’re probably a bottom.

thinking it’s been too long since i climbed a fence

Elif Batuman on feeling like everyone around you seeming so much more formed and opinionate.

“When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and your body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.”

— Lisa Unger (via quotemadness)

fraktur love letters (pennsylvania c.1800-1850)