beth death & the dumb-belles

She is a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper, and hopes for no better profession. I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick! But I can write when she is out, and see her a long way off from these windows.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

#booksky #womenwriters

recklessly feckless

A rectangular earthenware house model with a large square window in the middle of the longer side, and a figure of a dog looking out from inside the house. Above the opening and below the detailed slanted roof there are three smaller decorative windows. There are subtle lines and patterns scored on the walls.

model of a house with a dog inside
from China, early 1st century

is it too late for me to become a nun

"Weighed and found wanting"...

"'Belshazzar's grave is made,
His kingdom pass'd away,
He, in the balance weigh'd,
Is light and worthless clay;
The shroud his robe of state,
His canopy the stone:
The Mede is at his gate!
The Persian on his throne!'"

(Byron)

🎨 Gustave Doré (1866)

When I grow up I want to be a poltergeist. It's a family tradition.

#tinystories

Sometimes the only thing you need to do to be ungovernable is to exist in your space, and to keep on existing.

Increasingly “the left” is considered anyone not as right wing as Liz Truss. That’s why The Telegraph call you a Stalinist if you think cars should slow down outside primary schools.

""Too Late." By T. W. Wilson."
The Illustrated London News 21.10.1876.
#WyrdWednesday #1870s #Art

Happy 93rd Birthday to the mighty Yoko Ono.
‘I could have been squashed by that incredible amount of hatred. But then I found a way of transforming it into love.’

4 sketches of horses in different action poses. pen on paper

horses

Seeds scatter, a wish was cast.

#7syllablesentence

In the wake
of a wind-kissed lake
a mountain's reflection
slowly regains
its scars

#vss365

Paddington in 500 Days of Summer (2009)

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1798

Post-shroving pre-judgement

According to an 1876 edition of the 'Illustrated Police News', a South Londoner choked to death when a startled mouse leapt into his mouth and got stuck in his throat. Whether the mouse survived is not recorded.
#WyrdWednesday #Victorian

IO (Only two vowels, alternating)

Long I trod, dislodging rocks,
blind on Io’s wilds….

Now I hold
this cosmic god,
this fossil of iron;
this lost lion
with torn wings:

Now,
I hold
Io’s sphinx.

Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection

Cover for Jouets de Paris

Twisting old steps.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography

PSA. I don't think she's on bluesky, but if anyone on here is also on Instagram, and has any interest whatsoever in critical thinking, I urge you to follow @louisamunchtheory over there.

ABCs by Arnold. I struggle with the alphabet, so this was incredibly helpful.

Stolen, but couldn't find source to attribute to.

#filmsky 📽

Collage of black and white photographs

Alfred Watkins
Collage of black and white photographs, published as frontispiece of Alfred Watkins, Early British Trackways, 1921
Hereford Library no.1578b

My drivers ed teacher would take us out on long, winding drives through rural South Dakota, then fall asleep in the backseat.

The only thing he taught me is that if you're going to hit a horse, swerve. Otherwise, it will fall through the windshield and crush you. All other animals you should hit.

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

William Butler Yeats

Lent Book Club

Am combining the fact that

1. I have a few dozen books on the go

with

2. I am the most religious atheist you will ever meet

to justify

3. starting yet another book, 'All About Love' by Bell Hooks, declaring it My Book For Lent

All welcome. Use #LentBookSky

#bookchatweekly

"I noticed that all around me I heard a testimony that lovelessness had become the order of the day... we risk moving into a wilderness of spirit so intense we may never find our way home again. I write of love to bear witness both to the danger... and to call for a return to love."

Bell Hooks

HORROR FILM SAFETY 1. It's not "the wind." 2. Never split up. 3. Listen to the "crazy" guy. 4. Authorities are useless. 5. Avoid bathroom mirrors. 6. Refuse sewer-clown gifts. 7. Don't assume! Kill twice. 8. Children are evil.

Horror Film Safety

Cat #043

Ah shit! We let pedophiles decide our beauty standards. Post the release of the harrowing Epstein files, and the powerful men in media and fashion, considered possible accomplices, it feels fair to say this with more gusto!

I don't think #bodypositivity is as dead as she claims, but this article is great. If it's tl;dr for you, the tagline says it all.

Jameela Jamil - Ah shit! We let pedophiles decide our beauty standards.

open.substack.com/pub/jameelaj...

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