I Wonder If The Flute Was A Transverse Flute Or A Recorder (i'm Not Sure That This Is The Right Translation)?

Excerpt of Saint-Just’s Speech of 9 Thermidor + Jacques-Louis David Paintings

Happy Thermidor! I erred on the side of poetic with some of the translation, mostly for my own enjoyment, so make sure to take it all with a grain of salt! 

Painting names + text (with actual punctuation!) under the cut

Continua a leggere

“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature. We’ve lost our connection to ourselves.”

— Andy Goldsworthy

Ivan The Terrible Part 1 and 2 + art parallels

“Eagle Over 100,000 Acre Plain at Susaki, Fukagawa” - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857 (detail) // “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb” - Hans Holbein the Younger, 1520-22 (detail) //  “Portrait of Giuliano de’ Medici” - Sandro Botticelli, 1478 //  “The Lamentation over the Dead Christ” - Sandro Botticelli, 1490-92 (detail) //  “The Demon Downcast” - Mikhail Vrubel, 1902 (detail) //  “Fair Rosamund and Eleanor” - Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1920

Couthon with disability pride flag overlay <3

i love watching what the old me loved, so i'll leave everything to remind me of her, and change is inevitable of course, but the world and me, who is part of it, doesn't have to move through hate

love it when the chronic pain is so hurt ouchie that i can predict the weather

a little poem for Robespierre

knowing thyself is the way to know the universe and viceversa: symmetry it's the constant