“She Didn’t Need To Be Saved. She Needed To Be Found And Appreciated For Exactly Who She Was.”

Duane Michals, Things Are Queer, 1973

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O D U D U A

Sometimes named Odua, she is the Yoruba earth goddess. Her brother is the sky god Olorun. She represents the essence of life, fertility and creation. She is said to be the bringer of love, but she can become a warrior goddess if she needs to.

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Dark Academia Playlist

a little dark, a little whimsical, tunes to make you feel like the main character in a film.

roslyn — bon iver, st. vincent

the secret history — the chamber orchestra of london

les mémoires blessées — dark sanctuary

into dust — mazzy star

clair de lune, l. 32 — claude debussy

show me how — men i trust

eyes on fire — blue foundation

over the moon — the marías

falling asleep with a book on your chest — lullatone

solo — five mile town

tchaikovsky: swan lake — pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky

altogether — slowdive

cigar & a 78 — five mile town

visions of gideon — sufjan stevens

thinking of you — cosmic child

headache — grouper

if i’m asleep — five mile town

dark — daffodils

The Last Words Of Famous Writers

When you’ve dedicated your life to words, it’s important to go out eloquently.

Ernest Hemingway: “Goodnight my kitten.” Spoken to his wife before he killed himself.

Jane Austen: “I want nothing but death.” In response to her sister, Cassandra, who was asking her if she wanted anything.

J.M Barrie: “I can’t sleep.”

L. Frank Baum: “Now I can cross the shifting sands.”

Edgar Allan Poe: “Lord help my poor soul.”

Thomas Hobbes: “I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap into the dark,”

Alfred Jarry: “I am dying…please, bring me a toothpick.”

Hunter S. Thompson: “Relax — this won’t hurt.”

Henrik Ibsen: “On the contrary!”

Anton Chekhov: “I haven’t had champagne for a long time.”

Mark Twain: “Good bye. If we meet—” Spoken to his daughter Clara.

Louisa May Alcott: “Is it not meningitis?” Alcott did not have meningitis, though she believed it to be so. She died from mercury poison.

Jean Cocteau: “Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking towards me, without hurrying.”

Washington Irving: “I have to set my pillows one more night, when will this end already?”

Leo Tolstoy: “But the peasants…how do the peasants die?”

Hans Christian Andersen: “Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more.”

Charles Dickens: “On the ground!” He suffered a stroke outside his home and was asking to be laid on the ground.

H.G. Wells: “Go away! I’m all right.” He didn’t know he was dying.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “More light.”

W.C. Fields: “Goddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it except you, Carlotta!” “Carlotta” was Carlotta Monti, actress and his mistress.

Voltaire: “Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.” When asked by a priest to renounce Satan.

Dylan Thomas: “I’ve had 18 straight whiskies…I think that’s the record.”

George Bernard Shaw: “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.”

Henry David Thoreau: “Moose…Indian.”

James Joyce: “Does nobody understand?”

Oscar Wilde: “Either the wallpaper goes, or I do.” 

Bob Hope: “Surprise me.” He was responding to his wife asking where he wanted to be buried.

Roald Dahl’s last words are commonly believed to be “you know, I’m not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so much!” which are the perfect last words. But, after he appeared to fall unconscious, a nurse injected him with morphine to ease his passing. His actual last words were a whispered “ow, fuck”

Salvador Dali hoped his last words would be “I do not believe in my death,” but instead, they were actually, “Where is my clock?”

Emily Dickinson: “I must go in, the fog is rising.”

QUALITIES (italian)

devozione - devotion

dignità- dignity

entusiasmo - enthusiasm

amore - love

forza - strengt / power

fedeltà- faithfulness

coraggio - bravery / courage

saggezza - wisdom

tolleranza - tolerance

altruismo - selflessness/altruism

carità- charity

compassione - compassion

disciplina - discipline

perdono - forgiveness

innocenza - innocence

pazienza - patience

pietà - mercy / pity

curiosità - curiosity

rispetto - respect

purezza - purity

spontaneità- spontaneity

umiltà- humility

speranza - hope

onestà - honesty

generosità- generosity

lealtà - loyalty

gratitudine - gratitude

fiducia - trust

giustizia- justice

umorismo - humour

sensibilità - sensitivity

creatività- creativity

modestia - modesty

So, the first photo of a black hole was just released, and it’s cool and all, but seeing it, all I could think of was this.

wake up sheeple. the truth is out there.

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

— Charles Bukowski