Reblogged thedeafprophet
my understanding and interpretation of Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” cannot be untangled from the fact that it was originally published to follow her poem about childhood sexual abuse, “Rage”
i just don’t think it was unintentional that these were presented flush against each other
[Transcripts:
Rage by Mary Oliver
You are the dark song of the morning; serious and slow, you shave, you dress, you descend the stairs in your public clothes and drive away, you become the wise and powerful one who makes all the days possible in the world. But you were also the red song in the night, stumbling through the house to the child's bed, to the damp rose of her body, leaving your bitter taste. And forever those nights snarl the delicate machinery of the days. When the child's mother smiles you see on her cheekbones a truth you will never confess; and you see how the child grows— timidly, crouching in corners. Sometimes in the wide night you hear the most mournful cry, a ravished and terrible moment. In your dreams she's a tree that will never come to leaf— in your dreams she's a watch you dropped on the dark stones till no one could gather the fragments— in your dreams you have sullied and murdered, and dreams do not lie.
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
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Reblogged willowbilly
Fantasia (1940)
Reblogged deadbaguette
story time, years ago i set out to draw a 007 portrait and abandoned it after the initial sketch before shading because i couldn't get it right, and now that i've finally come back to draw this stupid face after messing it up again in my Wake Up Dead Man painting (which is here by the way please look at it) i can say some of the things i learned are: 1) big nose; 2) funny mouth; 3) frown line; 4) thingy at height of cheekbone??; 5) HAIR DRASTICALLY CHANGES HOW A PERSON LOOKS
Reblogged phantomrose96
silt verses animatic because this story will forever haunt me
Reblogged starstrucksomehow
A year ago, this person suggested someone redraw those cool Hamlet Macbeth posters with Utena and Anthy. One year later, I finally did it! :^D
Edit: a few people already let me know the play is Macbeth, not Hamlet, I'm sorry I forgot how to read when I checked the post 😔.
Reblogged madmaudlingoes
Reblogged annabelle--cane
Reblogged annabelle--cane
“Obviously he’s done something. Peter’s done something to mess with you - Martin! Martin!”
((“I tried to tell you. He’s gone. He made his choice, and it wasn’t you.”))
Reblogged ursavorpalis
Saw a post about someone thinking about how the exorcist style possession horror movies operate in an odd world where evidently catholism is literally right but nobody really questions that or delves deeper into the implications, people just accept that an odd rogue priest can banish demons by chanting latin at them.
Now I want a possession horror movie where instead of a catholic christian priest, the closest Man Of Faith they can find is a local rabbi. A rabbi who is insulted and disgusted by the implication that his role in his community is the same as a priest is to a church. He's not some Special Holy Man With Super Powers From God, that's not how any of this works. He can help with the demon but he's not going to do any magic man nonsense at it.
He goes to the possessed person, sits down, addressing the demon, and suggest they discuss this. Because clearly, a civilised being who is capable of speech is capable of intelligent thought, and is willing to debate on whether they should or should not be possessing this person. The rabbi has many arguments on why they should not be doing that, and he would quite certainly want to hear what the demon's arguments are for insisting to possess this person.
The rabbi does eventually drive the demon out, but it's not about chanting magic words and doing mysterious rituals, but a very pragmatic discussion of "you can't make me" vs "no, but I can annoy you until you do."
I would give SO MUCH to have this movie.
Reblogged madmaudlingoes
Source: instagram.com
Let's not cooperate with mama
Always lovely to see how universal the experience of getting a very unwilling and strong minded toddler into the car seat can be.
Reblogged madmaudlingoes
i think maybe my new favorite category of roman intaglio art is "insects doing human things" because it's so indicative of the human need for whimsy. now take a look at this 1st century BC/AD intaglio of a grasshopper in a chariot pulled by butterflies
Reblogged quillquiver
