May Round-up Post

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First of all, thanks to all of you for contributing so wonderfully.
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raiindust / tinebrella / wickedshy / wildpages / afeastforme
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raiindust / lookslikerain / liesmiths / innocent-lexys / fuuurs






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tinebrella / mm3butterfly / longerthanwedo / innocent-lexys / daydreamshole






12feethigh / innocent-lexys / fprintmoon / lumsx / mm3butterfly






messdestruction / scoobyatemysnax / mm3butterfly / innocent-lexys / fuuurs
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acidflashbacks / fleurstiels




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Photography



Greek myrtle wreath, c. 330-250 BC. (credit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) In ancient Greece, wreaths made from plants like laurel, ivy, and myrtle were awarded to athletes, soldiers, and royalty. Similar wreaths were designed in gold and silver for the same purposes or for religious functions. This example conveys the language of love.

A plant sacred to the goddess Aphrodite, myrtle was a symbol of love. Greeks wore wreaths made of real myrtle leaves at weddings and banquets, received them as athletic prizes and awards for military victories, and wore them as crowns to show royal status.

By the Hellenistic period (300-30 BC), the wreaths were made of gold foil; too fragile to be worn, they were created primarily to be buried with the dead as symbols of life’s victories. The naturalistic myrtle leaves and blossoms on this wreath were cut from thin sheets of gold, exquisitely finished with stamped and incised details, and then wired onto the stems. Most that survive today were found in graves.




Bishme Cromartie / Alexander McQueen’s Spine Corset 1998



John Green, via loveyourquotes













Puzzlewood, by iamthewoodendoors




Emily Boyer /Fernie787




Givenchy Haute Couture by Alexander McQueen photographed by Marcus Mam for Visionaire #26, 1998 / Ji Hye Park backstage Dolce and Gabbana Fall 2013

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Art



J.M.W. Turner - Morning amongst the Coniston Falls, Cumberland, 1798

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Words

"I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it- to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once." -- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it." -- William Shakespeare

"There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for." -- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Don’t lose yourself just because you found somebody." -- Anonymous.

"Don’t hang out with people who don’t love you. Don’t try to impress people who aren’t worth it. Don’t try to win people over who aren’t worth it. Focus on yourself, and focus on the people who are really awesome and who love you. Don’t hang out with people who make you feel like shit. Don’t spend your energy on them. There is so much pressure to be part of the right thing: well, you should create the right thing. If you don’t see it, create it. If you don’t see what you want, be the change you want to see/" -- Beth Ditto

"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." -- Alejandro Jodorowsky

"Nobody can save you but yourself - and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning - this is it." -- Charles Bukowski

"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive." -- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live." -- Oscar Wilde

"Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful…and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out." -- Zadie Smith

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