Imagine How Terrified The First Person Who Ever Saw A Whale Was.

Detail: Apollo and the Arts, 1897, by Paul Jean Gervais.

Apparently the dude who started Netflix did so cuz he got a $40 late fee from Blockbuster and was pissed

Adrienne Rich, from Poetry & Prose: Poems, Prose, Reviews and Criticism; “The Knight,” (x)

i realised there was no gender neutral for “my sister from another mister” or “brother from another mother” and so I present to you all “my sib from another crib”

Hero and Leander

— by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

antinous (+ hadrian)

h of h, anne carson/ diaries, franz kafka/ a primer for the small weird loves, richard siken/ the death of antinoüs, mark doty/ antinous as a priest of the imperial cult/ no id/ war of the foxes, richard siken/ on earth we’re briefly gorgeous, ocean voung/ boot theory, richard siken/ antinous mondragone

I no longer know if I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

Grantaire, Book V (via 231895)

Louis Welden Hawkins - Procession of souls (1890)

“I want to write a novel about silence. The things people don’t say.”

—

Virginia Woolf 

(via purplebuddhaquotes)