I Tried To Escape But His Love Arrow Already Reached Me

Leila Chatti, from "Postcard from Gone"

The Roman Forum, view from the southern end.

I have crossed oceans of time to find you.

Gowns by Charles James photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1948

have to thank tumblr for romanticizing absolutely everything. i'll be washing dishes and peeling oranges thinking of love languages its insane

god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

nobody is coming to save you. get up

Meanwhile, in Italy...

"Former culture undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi defends the girl who climbed Giambologna's Bacchus statue in Florence miming a sexual act. 'It is a transfiguration: when art is truer than life. An amorous exaltation. No real man can compete with Cellini's Perseus. A drunk girl performs a critical act, not an erotic one.'"