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Wolf Blood

Claude Cahun, ‘I am in training don’t kiss me’, 1927

medieval cosmology was…..well, medieval. 

until the 17th century, people widely believed that the universe revolved around the earth. solar eclipses were mythologized as a dragon consuming the sun, comets were miracles, and evidence of godly forces, and lumpy faces got added to everything.

these three depictions are my personal favourites: a solar eclipse from the Missile Pragense, another eclipse from Ettenheim-Münster 32, and a comet from The Augsburg Book of Miracles.

if you’d like to wear a small piece of history, these are available as enamel pins at greerstothers.shop

strange decanters by etienne meneau

april storms and dragons like butterflies!

fuck does anyone have that poem thats like the speaker used to press her ear to conch shells when she was a child but as an adult the world has closed its second mouth or something

I FOUND IT ITS SANITY BY CAROLINE BIRD

Title: Black Panther Stalking a Herd of Deer Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme,French Date: 1851 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 290 5/8 x 29 1/8 in. Source: Museum of Fine Art

Yumeji Takehisa, Book Design “To the Mountains” Taisho 8

—Ursula K. Le Guin, from a 1988 interview, collected in Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (Melville House, 2019)

Claude Paradin’s Devises heroïques, 1557

I hope none of you disappear in the coming days. Seriously don't do anything that can't be undone.

I know i'm just a random person you follow online but I mean it. People (all kinds of marginalised people too!) Have survived all types of horrible times and managed to find happiness eventually. If for no one else, survive for them. And also, try to survive because the people making you despair don't want you to live. Don't give this to them. Don't give your life. The best thing you can do is cling to it with everything you've got. Lay in bed for a day if you have to. but please promise you won't hurt yourself.

Take screen breaks, (now more than ever!!) Meet up, Call your friends, call your family if you're on good terms. Text your favourite mutual you never speak to if you've got no one irl. Make sure you eat enough and sleep enough, and take any meds and vitamins. Don't believe anything you think if you're hungry and tired. Rewatch your favourite show. Get a therapy appointment if you think you need it.

You can absolutely not take any shortcuts when it comes to your wellbeing right now.

drawings of my cat(s) (1)

o to be as though you weren’t standing where you are