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Wallace Polsom, This Night of Joy (2019), paper collage, 22.4 x 25.8 cm.

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what beautiful thing are you? a handwritten love letter? a vase of freshly picked wildflowers? etc. etc. take my quiz xoxo

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Prima Ballerina Fountain in Poddębice, Poland by Małgorzata Chodakowska

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the disgust i feel when i see taylor swift and travis kelce interact is so strong and immediate like a wave of nausea just came over me watching her in the new heights clip this must be what homophobia feels like

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gonna be a hater for a minute, reblog and put in the tags the last movie that you HATED like viscerally hated like 1/2 star on letterboxd HATED

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I'm putting off an odyssey reread because I don't want an epic burnout (pun intended) but I really want to reexamine the symbolic meaning of circe turning the crew into pigs of all animals because I don't think it has the pure 1:1 gluttony or 'sexist pig' meaning that modern readers instantly read into it. afaik the DOG was much more a symbol of gluttony because they received scraps of human food at the table but also roamed the streets for trash (devoured the waste remains of sacrifices) and ate corpses, even attacked their own masters because they couldn't control their animal impulses (this is why women were considered doglike in greek epic; they can control neither their gluttony, greed, or lust). getting turned into pigs is not about the threat they pose to circe or their entitlement, it's about her (liminal) divinity. she's asserting HER superiority. humans are like animals to her. they are livestock, and powerless against her lures and might.

but pigs were sacrificial animals, demeter's animals, symbols of (agricultural?) fertility and had SEXUAL connotations. what if the crew was turned into what circe, an immortal and powerful goddess, sees them as: slabs of meat, a tasty morsel, something meant for consumption? the spectre of cannibalism looms large over the entire odyssey, but in the circe episode power and sex interact very closely once odyssey overpowers her. her initial overpowering of the crew is imo an eroticised charged act, but is the choice of pigs (rather than pigs and cows, as in the other episodes) part of that gendered and erotic theme?

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Pictures from The Life of a Showgirl album photoshoot currently out, excluding the album front & back covers, seemingly with more to come when the album releases 👀

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Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in the Upper Peninsula, featuring Lake Superior. Summer 2024, 35mm film.

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John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I've seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they're grifters profiting from real creatives.

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Margaret Atwood, from a journal entry featured in Early Essays & Journals

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Put on your sash and top hat darling.... mommy needs you to preside over the city council meeting later

#mayorkink #mayorification

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ever since i learned about ghost buildings i haven't been able to stop thinking about them

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learning that addiction is a progressive narrowing of the range of things that make one happy was kinda life changing for me. i apply it to everything not even just addiction i am always checking to ask if i am narrowing my range of happiness or widening it

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most of the time everything sucks but when the sky is blanketed in dark blue-grey clouds after heavy raining and the sun starts to peek through the clouds so that the tops of trees glint pale green and every white structure is starkly, blindingly silhouetted against the sky i’m ok.

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Women in Restoration by Isabella De Maddalena