Machiavelli: Dude How Many Levels Of Sucking Up To The Medici Family Are You On Right Now

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

HOLY SHIT MOZART

I just found out Mozart’s first true opera was commisioned by a university when he was 11, which all by itself was pretty impressive.

But the shocking fact is that this little kid wrote the opera about a f*cking homosexual triangle between the greek god Apollo and two humans, Hyacinthus (his lover) and Zephyr (who was jealous).

A GAY OPERA

THERE’S A DAMN GAY OPERA WRITTEN BY A 11 YEAR OLD MOZART

ask me to eat you bones & all with your dying breath or DONT waste my time

imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and there’d be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales there’d be giant deer and just wow

Francesco Hayez (Italian, 1791-1882)

Vengeance is Sworn, 1851

the beast you made of me

The Truth and Grunewald, Juan Ramón Jiménez tr. W.S. Merwin | St. Michael,  Luca Giordano | The Bear - Episode 1, Christopher Storer | Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel | Fury, Yevgeny Yevtushenko | Dante et Virgile, William Bouguereau | The Terre Haute Planetarium Rejected My Proposal, Paige Lewis | Study of a Man, Thomas Couture

men are fucked up but i like it when they have nose rings

fish do not have shoulders