I'm coming out as a new year's enjoyer. "Oh you will never stick to these goals" "nothing is really different between one day and the next" "why celebrate the bad years" because I want to!!! Because I love endings and beginnings and making lists!! I love the concept of starting the year by partying I love the drama of kissing someone at midnight I love the one time of the year when it is cold I love starting a new calendar and I love cheering for no reason

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS (1965)

Gee, do they still make wooden Christmas trees?

happy solstice and merry midwinter from one of the uk’s many magical stone circles! ✶

saturday bluesey doodleeee

kinda funny to me how angel with a soul vs angel without a soul are two completely opposite personalities that have absolutely nothing in common except for their body and most (but not all!) of their memories and then spike with a soul is the exact same as spike without a soul except he had a psychotic break in the basement that one time

Some Caleb’s with/out the jacket

The thing about the "white cube" style of art gallery display is that it's actually not letting you appreciate the art in a vacuum. Art looks different in different displays, and I appreciate the attempt to solve that problem, but a blank white wall is itself an aesthetic, it has its own cultural connotations and background and associations. It is not devoid of extraneous meaning. A white cube is not a vacuum, it is a white cube. It looks sterile, empty, industrial. Not all art was meant to be displayed in a white cube. Leonardo Da Vinci never intended for the Mona Lisa to be displayed in a white cube. There is no such thing as a vacuum.

Once a day, shadows briefly bring back to life the beautiful ‘Ghost of Ungru Manor’ Estonia...

Courtesy: Abandoned Places

"Girls' cultural work has long been assumed to be secondary, derivative, and belated - or else entirely nonexistent. This book demonstrates, instead, that girls are very often the first to do many things. For example, the tenth-century German abbess, Hrostswitha of Gandersheim, composed six Latin plays to be read and performed by the girls of her convent for the purposes of learning Latin and receiving religious instruction. These plays are the work of the first known female dramatist and are the first post-classical dramatic compositions produced in Europe. Moreover, this significant event in theatre history is motivated by girl-oriented subject matter: the lives of virgin martyrs and holy anchorites. The sixteenth-century publication of Hrotswitha's plays represents a further watershed moment in the history of the book and the theatre. Published in Nuremberg by the humanist scholar Conrad Celtes, and including woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer, the 1501 Opera Hrosvite contains the first printed works by a female playwright as well as the first printed volume of plays by a post-classical dramatist. Plays about girlhood, written for and performed by girls, thus constitute foundational works in literacy and theatre history, as well as in the history of the book."

–– Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy, by Deanne Williams