(source: The Dustin (OK) News, December 24, 1920.)

Can't be sincerely dark without being called edgy, can't be sincerely emotional without being called melodramatic, can't be sincerely silly without being called stupid. They're gonna hate every emotion you put in your art no matter what so make it anyway and be as sincere as you can be

Female inmates of San Quentin State Prison and their very fine hats. 1/?.

Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 26, 1914

This entire thing is adorable.

(source: The Kalamazoo Gazette, December 20, 1899.)

i think there might be mold growing inside me

the run up to the ides of march on tumblr is what christmas used to feel like as a kid

i just realized “embrace the probability of your imminent death” is a wyatt callow reference

ok but one thing i love about goncharov is the ironic subversion of themes. like we have katya, the madonna-like character whose white palette screams of loyalty and purity, while andrey is the judas-like character whose motifs are the dagger and the poisoned cup.

but at the end, it’s katya who draws a gun on goncharov, and andrey who’s left holding his bleeding body in his arms. by having the “loyal wife” be the backstabber and the “doublecrosser” be the broken-hearted lover, scorsese subverts both biblical imagery and gender roles, and he does it in such a subtle and poetic way too, without taking away the complexity of either character. 

Tigris: You fainted, do you remember anything?

Coryo: Only the ambulance ride.

Tigris: That wasn’t an ambulance ride, I drove you.

Coryo: But I heard a siren?

Tigris: That was Sejanus.

Sejanus: Sorry, I got nervous.

The cruelty of racist white men.