Constellations. A Fourteen Weeks Course In Descriptive Astronomy. 1870.

canis major

Richard Siken continues to kill it on twitter. He just explained why his poetry is so popular in tumblr graphics - "you can take any of my quotes and apply them to any fandom or picture and they will work because they are sad and mopey and full of longing" and then proceeded to demonstrate this. With cat pictures. With lines of his poetry slightly altered to be lol cat speak.

(from his twitter thread here)

People are doing their own versions in response and he is complimenting them.

Finding a vandalized Wikipedia article while doing homework feels like winning the lottery with the ticket you found on the street

The National Museum in Wrocław (Poland)

not mine but hilarious

snow in rome for the first time in six years!

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

The following pieces of morbid art are by Nicola Samori, a 35 year old Italian artist. He says “My work stems from fear: fear of the body, of death, of men. I think my nature as an artist is something like feeling hopeless. Works are just temporary shelters and painting is a leisure place where you can conceal yourself.”