At The Beginning Arthur Says Something Like “if I Should Not Love You I Should Not Have Been Born”

oh my gosh i was just reading about her just today i love the way female artists in the late 1800s showed the first glimpses of domestic female life from a woman’s pov i just think its so lovely thinking about her painting these lovely things

There is something comforting and feminine about Berthe Morisot’s paintings ♡

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missoula mt 2022

October (1877) by James Jacques Joeseph Tissot

does anyone who ordered the monster high creeproductions on may 13th still have some that havent arrived? my clawdeen has been just postponed over and over again and i’m so worried they’ll cancel the order :((

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

Illustrations from L Frank Baum’s Oz books (WW Denslow & John R Neill, 1900 to 1920).  (via Wikipedia)

“To the Return of Times Lost” By Charles Amable Lenoir (1860-1926)

5.22.22

definitely a book lovers kind of day. i have to return my library books soon so i spent some time studying and taking notes on the art history books i got. also i’m starting the lord of the rings i love it a lot so far. also finallss week is this week soooo wish me luck :))

François Boucher, 1758: ‘Madame de Pompadour’ (detail) [x]

Eve - Louis Hierle