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Yesterday I almost cried because my baby cousin ran up to my grandmother and was like. “Ha! Buhbuh ba ha.” And she said okay you want to show me something? And he led her over to the garden patch and crouched down and pointed at rocks and plants and was like. “Ah. Habah ba ah” as she listened attentively.

And I was like that happened 1,000 years ago. Probably 10,000 years ago. Maybe 100,000. The youngest human in a group went to the oldest one and said to the best of their ability “come see.” And the adult went.

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Romantic obsession is my first language. I live in a world of fantasies, infatuations and love poems. Sometimes I wonder if the yearning I've felt for others was more of a yearning for yearning itself. I've pined insatiably and repeatedly: for strangers, new lovers, unrequited flames. While the subjects changed, that feeling always remained. Perhaps, then, I have not been so infatuated with the people themselves, but with the act of longing.

- Melissa Broder

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At this point, I almost go feral when i hear some ignorant idiot talk about art as if it is your pretty color by numbers schematic nightmare.

"the plotpoints are bland" you are bland if you don't understand that art doesn't need a perfectly structured story or a story at all

"The characters aren't really flashed out and have no narrative arc" maybe because the characters are just simbols or aren't important

"It's just nonsensical" well it was made to be nonsensical and defy our concept of art as something to be measured and calculated

"They must've been on drugs while creating this" fortunatly, not everyone is like you and can be creative without using psychedelics (some works were created like this, i know, i'm talking about those who are not)

"This is not art" as if you're the autority on the matter just because you watched one(1) video.

In 2024, grace us, my good collegue, and try to learn something about art before talking. I don't understand why everyone feels the need to talk about art even without knowing ANYTHING about it. If someone with the same level of knowledge talked about anything scientific, everyone would be outraged, but, when the same things apply to art, every idiot can explain their idiot teory on why just things that are perfectly measurable can be considered artistic and relevant and people treat their word like it's the Bible. IT'S NOT.

Let's not even touch the soubject of people being like: OMG I LOVE RENEISSANCE PAINTINGS! But the paintings they talk about were actually made in the 19th century, 400 years after the Reneissance ended. And so on for every artistic form.

Please, try to learn something before speaking. Art is relevant for everyone, and, if you know it, you will understand yourself so much better.

Educate yourself on art of any form and kind, and then you'll know by yourself what you think it's art and what not, without the need of someone telling you.

Always learn, be always curious.

#art #artist #dark academia #light academia #books #film #cinema #paintings #sculptures #any form of art #dark academia aesthetic #dark acamedia #academia aesthetic #academia #classic academia #aesthetic #romantic academia

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This might be controversial but Letterboxd is just Tumblr for men.

#letterboxd #tumblr #hot take #controversial #men #women #shitpost #i just realised this while talking with my bestie

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Fuck characters doomed by the narrative i'm just sick for characters doomed by themselves.

#CORIOLANUS SNOW MY BELOVED #Not in a literal sense because he's an ass but i like a lot his characterisation and character in general #i'll never support a fascist no matter how hot he is #like i loved hunger games but this shit is something else #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #in reality there are so much more stories that feature a character like him #like faust #or pandora #prometheus #greek myths in general #but right now i'm obsessed #by this modern greek tragedy #coriolanus snow is litterally the kind of character i adore the most in fiction #lucy gray x coriolanus #coriolanus snow #coriolanus #lucy gray baird #lucy gray #coriolanus x lucy gray #sejanus plinth #sejanus

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CORIOLANUS AND LUCY GRAY ARE THE REVERSED BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

I know this sounds crazy but hear me out.

In the original tale, the Beast keeps his roses hidden, and wants no one to touch them. The tale starts with the Beauty asking her father for the purest rose he can find as a gift from his travels. She could have asked for anything, trasures, money, jewelry, but she only asks for a single rose.

In this story, roses simbolize the human side of the Beast, that wants to remain isolated and never be close to someone again after being cursed. The Beast shows only the monster, hides the human. Similarly, the Beauty asked for something kind and sweet as a gift, for the simplest act of love and humanness.

Now, let's get back to the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

The first thing Coriolanus does when he meets Lucy Gray is gifting her a rose, and the first thing she does is EATING it.

Coriolanus doesn't hide his human side for selfish motivations (gain her trust), using the rose to cover his monstrous and wicked one. Lucy Gray didn't ask for a rose, she didn't want or expext it, and when it's offered to her she eats it, consuming it like an animal would. He acts like a human and she acts like a monster, but the truth is the opposite.

They both act like this because they're performers. All the story is just a long performance that breaks in this two points. Coriolanus shows the human because he's the Beast. Lucy shows the monster because she's the Beauty.

#i literally started screaming when i realised #i don't know if suzanne collins would agree but com'on this is just TOO perfect #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #paralells #narrative foils #coriolanus snow #coriolanus x lucy gray #coriolanus #lucy gray baird #lucy gray x coriolanus #lucy gray #sejanus plinth #the hunger games #suzanne collins #theory #fan theory #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #the hunger games trilogy

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No YOU (the rational part of my brain) don't understand how much The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes altered my brain chemistry. I can never be the same. I will never recover.

#i am destroyed #by this modern greek tragedy #i will never recover #i will never shut up about this #like i loved hunger games but this shit is something else #i'm obsessed #the brainrot is real #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #the hunger games #suzanne collins #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #coriolanus snow is litterally the kind of character i adore the most in fiction #greek tragedy hero #doomed from the start

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art parallels jeremy lipking, federico zandomeneghi, serge marshennikov, allan douglas davidson, svetlana tartakovska

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it fucking sucks how you can do all the therapy and self healing in the world and you still have to wake up living under a capitalist death cult that's killed community and crushes your soul

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EDVARD MUNCH WASN'T THE PERSON YOU THINK HE WAS

This is The Scream. You know it, right? It's one of the most famous paintings in the world, and it rapresents the anxiety, fear, terror and stress of the modern man.

That's what they told you, right?

That's not true, or, to be more precise, it's not the whole truth.

Edward Munch remained deeply traumatised as a child after the death of his sister and the terrible enviroment that was his family. For years, he painted incessantly and almost exclusively this event that leaved permanent scars on his psyche, causing him to became severly depressed, condition that was worsened by the terrible relationships with his first lover and expecially the second one (that he almost married), who severly abused him mentally and somethimes physically. They both abused alchool and drugs, up until the point he wasn't capable of properly function.

After a fight in a bar in 1908, his friends, worried for him, sent him to a psychiatric hospital.

When he was dismissed, he retired to the countryside, stopped abusing drugs and alchool, interrupted his toxic frienships and relationships, and began to paint like this:

Can you see that? The colors, the light, the warmth, the focus on the sun (that was absent in his old works), he doesn't look like... Munch. But this is Munch. This is Munch at the happiest and best moment of his life, that continued up until he died in 1944.

The Scream is a cry for help of a mentally ill, traumatised and scared man in a world that didn't care about mental illness, it's not a universal condition and it's not a commentary on modern life, AND I'm tired of hearing people talk about it like it is. Depression and suffering aren't more intellectual or profound than happiness and joy, reducing Munch to be just the worst period of his life is to negate the person he truly was.

His later paintings have stucked with me a lot more that any of his earlier works, because I truly belive that living means to look at both sides of life, dark and light. To only see one is to choose blindness and illusion on what life truly his.

#edvard munch #art #the scream #munch #happiness #depression #mental illness #mental health #artist #culture #classic academia #dark academia aesthetic #dark acamedia #academia aesthetic #light academia #aesthetic #dark academia

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on winter and longing

Sarah Kay, Natalie Diaz, Craig Keenan, Clarice Lispector, Mahmoud Darwish, Brittany Cossette, Franz Kafka, Edvard Munch, Richard Siken, Haruki Murakami, Holly Warburton, Mahmoud Darwish

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Your Demons Have Good Advice, Actually - a short comic about moving on after trauma with a fresh new start

cant believe i drew this entire thing and STILL misspelled ‘whether’

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“At her very first kiss I could feel something melt in me and hurt in some wonderfulway. All the longing I had ever known, all the dreams, all the sweet dread, all the mystery that had been sleeping in me, was roused. Everything was transformed, enchanted.” - Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldman

Drawing by nephrosoupp

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I usually don't post this kind of things but ‼️‼️PEOPLE NEED THIS ‼️‼️

man it would really suck if the link to request tv shows and movies got spammed with requests for shadow and bone and six of crows....

that would just be so unfortunate for netflix. such an inconvenience.

it would just be really terrible if this link got spread so people could spam it with requests for shadow and bone and six of crows.