The Underground Basket-Weaving Society of Aus.

Lucian Freud Rose 1979

although i don’t agree with your taste in music, i have to respect your ability to type out this message while longboarding across campus

Real or cake?

Can I say rhombic dodecahedron cuz it’s one word in my native language (ромбодэдекайдер) and I can’t imagine liking any word more

Bowl with Fish design , Iran, probably Kashan, late 13th–mid-14th century, stonepaste; black decoration under a transparent turquoise glaze

Famous Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko befriended the African-American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge, while the latter was on tour to the Russian Empire in 1858. Shevchenko did his portrait in pastel. It is recounted that the two men got along very well. While posing for the portrait, Aldridge sang African-American songs to Shevchenko and in return, the artist taught him Ukrainian songs. 

Portrait of Ira Aldridge by Taras Shevchenko, 1858. Pastel on paper.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

May 18, 2017 ∙ East Village

More info on the LARP (4th of July) here. (You can join this year's, there are still spots left.)

the answer to "what is a qpr?" is "whatever you want it to be." sometimes that is romance lite. sometimes it's a deeply committed friendship. sometimes it's friends who have a sexual relationship. sometimes it's based on an entirely different mode of attraction. sometimes it's fluid and impossible to put into words. it's whatever you want it to be. it's queer.

Wow I'm obsessed... I was going to paint my nails yesterday but didn't get around to it, partly bc I couldn't think of anything good... But this is inspiring and I may belatedly take part...

though, I'll admit the assortment of feet the "iambic" tradition permits is...diverse