When my sweater slips off one shoulder
Me: I am the sexiest person in the world right now. In this moment, I'm a star.
No more feeling suicidal there are others that deserve to die more ❤️
tragedy in art
- the execution of lady jane grey by paul delaroche (1833)
- the fall of babylon by john martin (1831)
- ophelia by sir john everett millais (1852)
- the destruction of pompeii and herculaneum by john martin (1822)
- princess tarakanova by konstantin flavitsky (1864)
- the episode of the yellow fever by juan manuel blanes (1871)
- les saltimbanques by gustave dore (1874)
- ivan the terrible and his son ivan by ilya repin (1885)
- the course of empire, destruction by thomas cole (1836)
- the plague of ashdod by nicolas poussin (1630)
“When I was 21 I read “Anna Karenina.” I thought Anna and Vronsky were soul mates. They were deeply in love and therefore had to be together. I found Karenin cruel and oppressive for keeping his wife from her destiny. Levin and Kitty and the peasants bored me. I read those parts quickly. Last year I turned 49, and I read the book again. This time, I loved Levin and Kitty. I loved the fact that after she declined his proposal he waited for a long time to mend his hurt feelings and then asked her again. I loved that she had grown up in the interim and now felt grateful for a second chance. Anna and Vronsky bored me. I thought Anna was selfish and shrill. My heart went out to poor Karenin, who tried to be decent. What has literature taught me about love? Literature (along with experience) has taught me that love means different things at different points in our lives, and that often as we get older we gravitate toward the quieter, kinder plotlines, and find them to be richer than we had originally understood them to be.”
— Ann Patchett, “A Sentimental Education - Writers on Love”
i love you well crafted narratives i love you clever callbacks i love you seemingly nonsensical plot lines that begin to make perfect sense when they converge i love you sneaky little easter eggs you only notice on your second watch i love you consistent but not overdone motifs i love you deeply satisfying series finales i love you gratifying and tangible character development
Me when characters are so blinded by hate and anger and revenge that they destroy themselves pursuing this one goal in the process
Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001
Alison Bechdel: ‘The Bechdel test was a joke... I didn’t intend for it to become a real gauge’
The US graphic novelist on having her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, turned into an audio series, growing up in a funeral home, and her famous women-in-film test
by theguardian.com
Definitely agree on that last bit. Listen, you can give your female character as big of a gun as you want, but it’s not going to make up for underdeveloped characterisation.