everything comes full circle

Maggie Nelson, The Red Parts (via antigonick)

ESC 2021 TOP 5 + postcards

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Прийди, прийди, весняночко Та й не забарися А ми вийдем на юлицю Будем любитися Весняночко, паняночко Заглянь у віконце Заспівали співаночку Засвітило сонце

Kateryna Pavlenko of Ukraine's Go_A during the performance of "Shum" at the semi-final 1 of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.

I, for one, welcome our new lord and saviour Kateryna Pavlenko 💚🖤

Chess isn’t always competitive. Chess can also be… beautiful. It was the board I noticed first. It’s an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it. I can dominate it. And it’s predictable, so if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.          Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon in THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT (2020)

“But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.”

Central to the film is a reclamation of the Orpheus myth, a version of which the three young women read aloud together one night. Sophie registers distress at Orpheus’s fatal, selfish incompetence in looking back at Eurydice when he was told not to, and Marianne suggests he may have done it on purpose, preferring to lose the woman and savor, instead, the romance of his grief, making not “the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.” But it’s Héloïse who removes, for once, the fixation on Orpheus, his failings, and his loss. What if, she says to Marianne with an edge of defiance, it was Eurydice herself who chose art over staying together, who rather than leave the underworld with Orpheus, stopped and called out “Turn around,” preferring to remain down there and be preserved in poetry. A kind of freedom and a kind of permanence, rather than, as eighteenth-century marriage looks to be, an unwilling exchange of one for the other. —  In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Love is a Work of Art

Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister, behind the scenes

Suranne Jones by Jon Shard for The Royal Exchange Theatre.