platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine
"Drac mort, roses de sang, el cavaller lluny, però el seu cor? El seu cor en la mà de la princesa on es va quedar fins l'últim estel es va desfer."
Dragon death, roses of blood, and the knight away, but his heart? His heart was in the hand of the princess where it stayed until the last kite melted.
And you have to go because they need you, yes, yes! But god, let me keep something of you, some dirt, some hair, some skin, something to bury when I'm older when you're gone.
Gone.
In Catalunya the 23 of April is "Sant Jordi" or Saint Gorge which is like our "Valentine's Day" where roses are gifted to loved ones (the knight gifting the rose to the princess as the legend says) and books. (since it's the date that Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega died.)
A book stand in la Rambla, Barcelona (photography by Jordi Borràs)
And it's one of my favourite festivities it's fun, it's silly, the children do Caramelles which it's a whole other dealt, but it's hilarious to do as a child and to look back as an adult.
Ball de Bastons de Canye, 2012 (photography by Nil Rider)
Els balls de bastons make me who I am and a dangerous child with two clubs and no fear of death.
ALSO THE SANT JORDI PA! HEAVEN! God, I love bread-
"And the devil is but a ram and I am only hunger."
The only difference between an innocent hand and a guilty one is which points first.
So the witches are linked with the rams... Because they are scapegoats? Put Goya in the phone right now, HE NEEDS TO KNOW-
(REFERENTS UNDER THE CUT)
As always, my dear Goya is here. Because this man's work is in the back of my mind like a second peer of eyes. (Get him out)
Brujas sábado (1789) de Francisco de Goya
And the only painting ever that it's The Descent from the Cross by Van der Weyden, which it's a monster of a painting, this painting will kill god and become one.
The Descent from the Cross (1435) by Rogier van der Weyden
And my dear Romanic paintings that will always be the most entertaining art ever, we will never surpass their madness, love them dearly.
Particular judgment of the soul and Saint Peter and Saint Paul (late 13th century) in the MEV, Museum of Medieval Art