Haddock & Holt’s Delineator, 1894

does the mortifying ordeal of being known guy know that his paragraph from a six year old NYT opinion piece about emailing pictures of goats to coworkers has become God Tier Tumblr Gospel ? like does he KNOW though

All I do is act incorrectly in response to stimuli

Antique Fans

04/06/20 // god knows we like archaic kinds of fun // ig

John William Godward

British, 1861-1922

An Offering to Venus (detail)

in this house we do grandma activities

As opposed to that quote about “the horrifying ordeal of being known,” do y’all ever feel so positively UNKNOWN and UNSEEN that it frightens you? Like there’s a self that you feel on the inside, and you believe to be “you,” but it seems like nobody else sees that version of you? And they’re interacting with someone that isn’t you but a projection of their experience of you? What’s more, perhaps nobody will ever know your true essence and you will die without ever being fully realized????? I’m only two beers in honestly

Des Moines Tribune, Iowa, December 20, 1928