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based on my mbti personality type, i’m meant to be rich

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"You think you're informed just because you read a bunch of grainy PDFs?"

Yeah man. Reading scholarly works on a topic informs you on that topic. That's how this works.

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how it feels to not care about something that used to drive you insane

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Basilica Of Justinian in Sabratha. 6th century AD, #Libya.

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The painting. All my fault. I lost something that should have been immortal. I didn't mean to do it. Because what I've done cannot be undone. It doesn't matter that I'm going to die. But for all time, for as long as history is written, that painting will be remembered and mourned. THE GOLDFINCH (2019) Dir. John Crowley

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Remembered that Theo in universe is writing The Goldfinch.confessing to murder and gay sex but also murder I guess

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me when I see somebody have an opinion about donna tartt that differs slightly from mine: they just don’t get you like I do, donna……..

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"I never took it out except when Dad and Xandra weren’t there and I knew they wouldn’t be back for a while—though even when I couldn’t see it I liked knowing it was there for the depth and solidity it gave things, the reinforcement to infrastructure, an invisible, bedrock rightness that reassured me just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation of the world."

the goldfinch by donna tartt

commission info

speedpaint here

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Good doesn’t always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result form bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions. Scary idea! ANEURIN BARNARD as BORIS PAVLIKOVSK in THE GOLDFINCH (2019)

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Roman mosaic, the shell, at the Verulamium Museum. St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England.

Verulamium was a Roman settlement conquered by the Romans during their invasion of Britain in 43 AD. Burned to the ground during the Boudica Revolt in 61 AD, the Romans rebuilt it. Verulamium became one of the largest and most prosperous cities in the province of Britannia.

By: G. Brabec

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every time I fumble w my phone’s charger cable I think about emailing steven moffat a pipe bomb