if you did what you wanted

From Head of Medusa (1617-1618) by Peter Paul Rubens

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Richard Siken, from "Wishbone", Crush

the immigrants, margaret atwood

Also cylinder seal

heavenly creatures (1994) / but i’m a cheerleader (1999) / the l word (2004-2009) / yellowjackets (2021–)

This tree is an example of a gemel, or two conjoined trees that fused together in a process called inosculation - essentially, self-grafting. This is pretty common in thin-barked trees like apple trees, blackthorn, beech, and olives, but pretty rare in thick-barked Douglas fir trees like this one. This tree has a lot of damage from boring beetles, possibly by Douglas fir beetles, Denroctonus pseudotsugae (I could be wrong, though). Being fused together might have weakened the tree, making it susceptible to beetle attack. 

Frank Bidart, Guilty of Dust

Cassandra, the Trojan Priestess

The World’s Loneliest Whale Sings the Loudest Song by Noor Hindi

march moodboard

[Text ID: I love you as one loves the most vulnerable / species: urgently, between the habitat and its loss. / I love you as one loves the last seed saved / within a vault,]

song of the anti-sisyphus by Chen Chen

like she wears the tackiest outfits ever. she tried wearing purple accents to make her eyes pop, but literally none of the purples match. it’s too humid in the ballroom so her hair is frizzing up. she’s wearing 5 different shades of blush. she put a little braid in her hair to match jody. etc etc

CORPUS CHRISTI by Terrence McNally (1998) // Jesus Washing Peter's Feet, by Ford Madox Brown (1876) // The Kiss of Judas, 1589–90 after Ludovico Carracci