the op’s tags: anthro!courage the cowardly dog/john the baptist

You’ve always been strong.

Arm of the Jeufosse, Autumn Claude Monet (1884)

these stairs lead to nowhere but they were still cool

The idea of murdering Bunny was horrific, impossible; nonetheless we dwelt on it incessantly, convinced ourselves there was no alternative, devised plans which seemed slightly improbable and ridiculous but which actually worked quite well when put to the test… I don’t know. A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I actually stood watching one, it seemed the easiest thing in the world. How quickly he fell; how soon it was over. 

Jeanette Winterson, Written On The Body (via thebluesthour)

Band of Brothers #2  —  The Pacific #5

“…Never did anything please Venus more than that. So old jokes are cracked and ribald songs are sung, and people love to remember how Anna choused the great god.”

Sylvia Plath, from Collected Poems; “Black Rook in Rainy Weather,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

↳ VIRGO: off-white, cream tail with spots of beige and brown, lives in a cave, leads lost people to their cave for shelter, sometimes those who have done unspeakable things mysteriously disappear and those who have been wronged receive sudden good luck, spotted just before these strange incidents occur.  [insp.]

fairytales looks at Luisa Beccaria, fall 2016.

another meme i won’t finish: movies [11 of ∞] → interstellar We’ve always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that. Or perhaps we’ve just forgotten that we are still pioneers. And we’ve barely begun. And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us.

Charles Wright, from “Reply to Wang Wei” in Appalachia (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998)

Somebody has to save our skins.

Ralph Lauren S/S 2012