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The Monet room in the Musee de L’Orangerie 

(Source: bewbin)

voyeurchic:

Your wish….my desire.

voyeurchic:

Your wish….my desire.

(Source: askun)

gierlichmypussy:

when people give me compliments I feel like a vending machine trying to accept a wrinkly dollar and it’s just really frustrating for everyone involved

travors:

Video

(Source: sizvideos)

There’s no point to a guy yelling, “Hey sexy baby” at me out of the passenger window of a car as it speeds past. Even if I was into creepy misogynists and wanted to give him my number, I couldn’t. The car didn’t even slow down. But that’s okay, because he wasn’t actually hitting on me. The point wasn’t to proposition me or chat me up. The only point was to remind me, and all women, that our bodies are his to stare at, assess, comment on, even touch. “Hey sexy baby” is the first part of a sentence that finishes, “this is your daily message from the patriarchy, reminding you that your body is public property”.

WHEN I SEE A KID READING A BOOK I LOVED AT THEIR AGE

dukeofbookingham:

I’m like:

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A source, a source, my kingdom for a source.

Ancient Shakespearean proverb (via penguintim)

When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lamppost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: “it is so beautiful I must show you how it looks.” And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it.

When I read this letter of Van Gogh’s it comforted me very much and seemed to throw a clear light on the whole road of Art. Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about *design* and *balance* and getting *interesting planes* into your painting, and avoided, with the most astringent severity, showing the faintest *academical* tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and so on.

But the moment I read Van Gogh’s letter I knew what art was, and the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it.

And Van Gogh’s little drawing on the cheap note paper was a work of art because he loved the sky and the frail lamppost against it so seriously that he made the drawing with the most exquisite conscientiousness and care.

Brenda UelandIf You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit (via raggedybearcat)

(Source: nyctaeus)

vintagelibraries:

Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, The Price Hill Branch, year unknown.

robuttsyeah:

sketchampm:

Cowboy Bebop is finally getting a remastered Blu-Ray/DVD release in North America for December 16th this year.

It’s about damn time. 

YES

Yesssss… goooooooood….

You can be a tremendous librarian without putting so much stress on yourself. You don’t have to be a rockstar. A much better use of your energy is trying to be the kind of librarian you’d want to work with. Put your energy into that, my friends. And try to be the kind of librarian your patrons want. Maybe that means working on your business reference skills instead of getting on an ALA committee before your 30th birthday [Editor’s note: or even before your 40th]. So be it!

10 classic Victorian Novels everyone should read by Interesting Literature

Click on the link to read about each one of them!

elysemarshall:

annajarzab:

I’ll Give You the Sun | Jandy Nelson

This book, you guys. I love it so much.

My heart. This book.

(Source: penguinteen)

(Source: letitburnxx)

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