Maybe There’s Someone In This Abandoned Clown Factory Who Can Help Us

The Vicarage, home of the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire

Coffee shop AUs are the 21st century version of the pastoralist fantasy, where the gruelling work of the lower classes is reconceptualized as a simple self-sufficient way of life where romance can blossom.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing (1767)

when frederico fellini said “i dont like the idea of ‘understanding’ a film” and when he said “i don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art” and he continued by saying “either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t” and added “if you are moved by it you don’t need it exlpaind to you” and finished with “if not, no explanation can make you moved by it” and then closed it off entirely with a giant big black PERIODT 

From Something That May Shock And Discredit You, Daniel Lavery

[ding dong, ding dong]

Hello, sir and/or madam! Have you heard the good news?

It spoke to you so strangely, in a voice that slipped between waves of softly droning static from a television screen.

Ernest Biéler 1863 - 1948

Portraits à Grindelwald (detail), 1906

u heard him ladies