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the idea of the beatles having a dedicated fandom on tumblr... i don't know how to explain this to anyone who wasn't on there before 2021 but tumblr people used to hate the beatles more than just about anything in the world

Let's listen a bit more of this 17-minute Toccata in D Minor, BWV 913, composed by the great Bach & played by Glenn Gould (1979 Lp recording)

In's Sichere willst du dich betten!
Ich liebe mir inneren Streit:
Denn wenn wir die Zweifel nicht hätten, Wo wäre denn frohe Gewißheit? Goethe

パウル・クレー《冬の山々》

Adorno: “The smallest detail can become the whole, because it is already the whole. This gives access to the late Beethoven, who no longer mediates between these extremes but makes one switch abruptly into the other.” — from a fragment on Beethoven (fr. 331)

Herman Herzog - "A Bonfire in the Moonlight"

@nexshrk i see far too many people using the word "goy" as a prefix and i don't think they know what that word even means

Your brain is seriously cooked by online hysterics if you think it's rare to find a gender non-conforming homosexual who is politically on the left

night🌕

Snow Storm. Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (J. M. W. Turner, c. 1842)

Paul Klee Mit zwei Dromedaren und einem Esel, 1919

Józef Mehoffer Wisła pod Niepołomicami, 1894

Mother of God of the Burning Bush, Russian Icon, first half 19th century

Jules Laurens - "The Blue Mosque in Tabriz, Persia" (1872)

“The excitement of beauty calls forth strong fellow feelings, yearnings for companionship, and the word ‘comrade’ can be taken to mean ‘human being’.” Remembering literature laureate Yasunari Kawabata.

A genre is "prog rock" if artists who grew up in a lowbrow genre decide it can be elevated, by using canonical avant-garde techniques & references to the Western canon while still working for a popular audience. It is not middlebrow as its autodidactic and amateur in the best way

Playing Kingdom Hearts as an adult is the funniest shit ever

going to take this as a reminder to actually read some jean paul at some point soon

just witnessed a reverse-americanism at the levi’s store in midtown. two spanish tourists were getting mad at the cashier for not speaking spanish. “it’s new york, you can’t speak spanish??” LMAOOO

this happened to me once