Narcissus & Nasturtium

I have never regretted that decision more than I did waking up from the dream I recently had, where I excitedly bought a rare copy of the novel that Goncharov (1973) was based on, opened it up, and found that it was a hollowed out "book safe" for keeping valuables in.

sleepy short days got me in a brush testing & bear appreciating mood...

“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”

i needed this as a background

Blackbird/koltrast. Värmland, Sweden (March 31, 2023).

Tony Huynh, The Light That Goes Out, 2025

Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt recording the latter's protest song "Sun City", 1985.

tumblr glitched and now there’s just a guy in the void

Edinburgh Summer Sessions (26.08.25)

From the diaries of the artist: «It was very difficult to work; I had to cut the brushes, make the bristle short, rub the colors was almost inconceivable. <… > The hand is cracking, it is breaking; the roaring hands refuse to serve. But you draw, all thirsty to put on the canvas these bizarre, gloomy, full of peculiar beauty paintings of the Far North» (source)

Starry Gelert (twitter) (instagram)

FROZEN PLANET II 1.01 • Frozen Worlds

Stained glass smoker window on a purple obs

the clanging of his armored ass cheeks brought down the walls of many a castle

What is more, it is not enough for them to be as God made them; they are not content with themselves as they are, but they gird themselves up and so rein themselves in round the middle of their bodies that they seek to deny the existence of the stomachs which God has given them: they want to pretend that they have not and never have had one, and everyone knows that the opposite is true.