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Sorrow, Vardges Sureniants National Gallery of Armenia (May 17, 2025)

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Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in "A Special Day" ("Une Journée Particulière", 1977)

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It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.

― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

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Tired, Langston Hughes

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John William Waterhouse, La Belle Dame sans Merci Dicksee Frank, La Belle Dame Sans Merci

"La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy") is a ballad written by John Keats in 1819. The poem tells the story of a knight who meets a mysterious and beautiful woman in a meadow. (I met a lady in the meads, / Full beautiful, a faery's child; / Her hair was long, her foot was light, / And her eyes were wild.)

She enchants him with her beauty, sings to him, and takes him to her "elfin grot". (She took me to her elfin grot, / And there she gaz'd and sighed deep, / And there I shut her wild sad eyes / So kiss'd to sleep.)

There, he falls asleep and dreams of pale, ghostly kings and warriors who warn him that the woman has enslaved them too. When he wakes, he finds himself alone, "on the cold hill's side," abandoned and desolate. (And this is why I sojourn here, / Alone and palely loitering, / Though the sedge is withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.)

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Portrait of Anna Davidovna Abamelik-Lazareva, Alexander Brullov

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The Fall (dir. Tarsem Singh)

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The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

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Vardges Petrosyan, Years Lived and Unlived (translated by metamorphesque)

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― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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Yezidis hold placards with pictures of victims of the Yezidi genocide - of the 550,000 Yezidis in Iraq before the Islamic State (IS) group invaded their region in 2014, around 100,000 have emigrated abroad and 360,000 remain internally displaced. Roughly 3,300 Yezidis have returned from IS captivity in the last five years, only 10 percent of them men. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP)

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august, tathev simonyan (a revised version of this poem)

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you and your people are all brave and those saying hateful things to you are filthy in their soul

The courage to face adversity is in our blood. At the end, shadow is but a passing thing; love and light, especially while founded on Truth, will always overpower hate.

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i'm turkish + i learned a few years ago that my great-grandmother was a crypto-armenian!; sadly she passed when i was young and so far it's been difficult to learn about it because i don't know if she was armenian orthodox or armenian catholic either. thank you for compiling all of these resources

I appreciate you sharing this. Many Armenians, like your great-grandmother, were forced to conceal their true identity in order to survive. It’s heartbreaking to think about how much was lost in that process, how so many stories were left untold or still remain veiled in secrecy. I hope that, with time, you'll come to learn more about her story.

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aren't you afraid to write Ike that?

one should not fear calling a spade a spade

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What is the current(or last) book you are reading, and do you reccomend it?

I've just finished reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas; now I feel a heavy nothingness weighing down my heart, and don't know what to do with myself.

Do I recommend it? Absolutely!