The fact that I’ll never be the same person again after reading this series 🥲
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name
[text ID: I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.]
Original thread:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DianaMiller5/status/1522278413096132609?cxt=HHwWgoC53deJnKAqAAAA
Note, I am finding these threads on the twitter feeds of ICU nurses who are now dreading the horrors that Roe falling will bring to their hospitals. This, on top of the horrors that they’ve seen and continue to see because of the pandemic. They were already exhausted and hanging by a thread.
Lila and the Men Around Her: A Means of Possession
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Credit: pictures on the left are from filmmaker Catherine Breillat’s interview at the Berlin Film Festival (originally found on justabore on TikTok)
"The Hightowers are an ancient family, very rich and very proud." (A Clash of Kings)
Their words are We Light the Way.
The Lords of Oldtown wield the ancestral valyrian steel sword Vigilance and assume several honorific titles like Defender of the Citadel, Voice of Oldtown & Beacon of the South.
"The arms of House Hightower show a stepped white tower crowned with fire on a smoke-grey field."
When they go to war, the great beacon atop the High Tower glows a baleful green.
Art (detail): The Dedication (1908) by Edmund B. Leighton; Caterina Cornaro Deposed (1842) by Francesco Hayez
Excerpts are taken from A Feast for Crows.
and fuck nebraska y’all didnt deserve that damn house
Miniature English Drawing Room of the Late Jacobean Period, 1680-1702
Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans
c.1937
Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1189)