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“Wrap me in the silk of your kiss,”

— Forough Farrokhzad, from Another Birth: Selected Poems; “The Sun Shines,“

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I don’t crave attention, i crave connection and that’s much harder to find

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Cymon and Iphigenia

Artist: Frederic Leighton (British, 1830-1896)

Date: 1884

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Description

The painting is based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. It depicts a scene from the first tale of day five; Iphigenia is sleeping in the woods and Cymon, a young nobleman, stands gazing at her beauty which fills him with inspiration. After seeing her, Cymon changes from a badly mannered lout to an ideal polymath. Nahum felt it "emphasized the transforming power of beauty." Boccaccio set the story in the springtime; Leighton preferred the ambience of a more autumnal feel. The artist was very precise about the mood he wanted to reflect by describing the specific setting of the time of day as "the most mysteriously beautiful in the whole twenty-four hours". He wished to capture the overall impression of drowsiness just before drifting to sleep especially on long hot days as night begins to fall. The painting is set when there is the "merest lip of the moon" showing on the horizon above the sea and the atmosphere is "haunted still with the flush of the after-glow from the sun already hidden in the west."

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ancient greek word of the night: νυκτόμαντις (nyktomantis), one who prophesies by night

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Bande à part (1964)

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Interiors of Shanks House, a Grade I-listed mansion in Somerset dating back to the 1560s, enlarged in the 18th century. Owned by designer Sophie Hale and her husband Roland, professionally restored by architects including Ptolemy Dean (via).

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Restored classical Haussmannian apartment by A+B Kasha 

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God I just want to be living with the love of my life already

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Elle Fanning for Lolita Lempicka

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Eugeniusz Wrzeszcz - "Two women in a grove" (1886)

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Juliette Drouet, from a letter to Victor Hugo, featured in My Beloved Toto: Letters

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only want to be using my body as it’s intended to (exploring nature, eating fruit, kissing, and creating art)

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i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

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Can we get any details about steps being taken to deal with all the falsely flagged as mature content? I'd love a way for an individual other than the OP to report a post as not mature. I'm seeing cats and bandaids and other innocuous things and accounts flagged as mature and it's getting really frustrating

Answer: Hello, @significantfoliage!

Thank you for this question—we are aware of incorrect classification issues and are actively working to reduce them. We’re also updating our appeals review process and expect to handle a higher volume of cases in the coming weeks. This is complicated and lengthy work, so we thank you for your continued patience.

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I've noticed and realized the first cords of the main title score of The Little Mermaid (1989) had left a deep impact on me, and leave me emotional every time now because those are the first cords, of the first score, of the iconic list of Disney's Renaissance animated films that’ll be remembered for many decades… Alan Menken had so much influence on the films he scored then, and I feel like he doesn’t get enough credit. He’s one of the main reasons why Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, and Tangled are iconic… and not to leave out Glen Keane and Howard Ashman (may God rest him), especially Howard, who was the pinnacle of character creation and storytelling (helped Jodi bring out Ariel's voice, pitched Aladdin and helped on Beauty and the Beast (1991))... but it's always been Alan Menken who brought out the magnificence, the grandeur, and the majesty of the films through music... it's one of the main reasons I believe, a lot of us are moved and remember, and light a candle to

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@rilke I love your addition. If you have access to Tubi, it's available on there to watch. I have to mention there's an element of the film that may surprise you. It is about the "Fountain of Youth" but there's something else to it that makes it different. That's what I was vague about when speaking about it earlier, and is what intrigued me about their take on the "Fountain of Youth".

I like and agree with it being about 'life'. Water definitely is life. I had a professor say once that "Where there is water, there is life."

And you being authentic. I admire that. What you mentioned is so true and I see it often and I share the same thoughts. What you stated also made me think of Pamela Anderson because she lives by what you said and I've always admired it.

There's a weird 3 star movie out there ready to change your life forever

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oh... my god... the music... the editing... the directing... the sound design. the everything *chefs kiss*