John Dowland Was Emo Too

@andsorrowsend / andsorrowsend.tumblr.com

Hark! You shadows that in darkness dwell, learn to condemn light. Happy, happy, they that in Hell feel not the world’s despite.
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image how much better if everyone, adults, teens, younger kids, all got recess. like if everyone got 45 minutes to an hour to just play around outside, do fun things, be “childish” and things

like my post you cowards, imagine it!

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a judge: the court will now take a recess

all the lawyers: [scramble to put on sneakers and get to the playground first]

Is it about butchering black girls’ hair to keep white people comfortable? Is it about a woman visiting the same violence on her daughter as was done to her by her mother a generation prior? Is this girl just too… “different” to go into the world unaltered? Does she need to be toned down so she can succeed? Does she need to be defenseless before she is deemed safe by powerful people who would do her harm if given half a reason? Is one of those people holding those scissors?

[I.D. digital art of a young girl medusa sitting in a chair in a kitchen, crying as a woman cuts the heads off of medusa’s snakes. the woman’s head is out of frame, but her blonde hair is visible as she pulls three snakes taught, beginning to chop them with scissors as blood spurts. four snakes have been cut already, their remains lying dead on the floor as the rest of the snakes, all sporting pink bows around their necks, cower in fear. the majority of the illustration has been colored in black and deep saturated yellows and oranges, while medusa’s skin and hair are green. her pinafore has the same color palette as the background. her knees are also scuffed, bruised with orange and one of them bandaged. her cut strands of snake hair are not bandaged and continue to bleed. end I.D.]

There’s a sequel!

Image ID: A digital illustration of a young Medusa woman braiding her green snakes in front of a mirror and while her eyes are covered with a sleep mask. The mirror is centered in the drawing and surrounded by the orange-pink background. She is wearing a white sleep mask with “closed eyes” on it and a black top with white lacey ruffles at the collar and cuffs. Two snake heads are seen in the mirror while the rest are out of view. The front of the vanity holding the mirror is littered with various dolls and stuffed animals with their eyes crossed out, candy, an image of eyes in a round frame that are also crossed out, nail polish in pink and black, ribbons, and a friendship bracelet plus polaroids. The wall above the vanity is pink and near-white striped and covered in small polaroids or photos taped on the wall and various portraits in yellow frames. The yellow frames show the woman as a young girl holding her arms anxiously with her head cut off from view, covering her face, or simply have dark static backgrounds. There is a sharpie on the lower shelf of the vanity. End iD

From the artist, re: the second image.

With all the times you’ve been put down it may be hard to look at yourself, but I hope one day you can. You’re amazing.
Happy to do a little follow up to my most recent illustration. I got a lot of comments hoping that she was gonna be okay and she will be. Healing takes time.

I think one of my favorite things on Tumblr is when we see Art of a Sad character we all immediately want them to be OK, to get better, to be happy.

And if the artist won’t do it, we’ll step in and do it ourselves.

Guys, let's make a sandwich. I'll start:

Bread

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the souls of the innocent

The sins of the guilty

time loop

Guys, let's make a sandwich. I'll start:

Bread

the souls of the innocent

The sins of the guilty

time loop

Guys, let's make a sandwich. I'll start:

Bread

the souls of the innocent

The sins of the guilty

Guys, let’s make a sandwich. I’ll start:

Bread

the souls of the innocent

the sins of the guilty

time loop

Guys, let’s make a sandwich. I’ll start:

Bread

the souls of the innocent

the sins of the guilty

time loop

Guys, let’s make a sandwich. I’ll start:

Bread

the souls of the innocent

the sins of the guilty

hi im emily whats going on in here

Sandwich 👍

THE TIMELOOP HAS BEEN BROKEN EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU EMILY

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thank you emily good job everyone

I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

I'm a ridiculous human and genuinely couldn't sleep until I tried my hand at a better, more balanced list -- though of course, I have my own biases when it comes to what corners of this website I've lurked in over the years. For what it's worth, I did consult the last several Years In Review, while also drawing on the fact that I've been here for over a decade. But if there's anything that truly doesn't feel like it should have made the cut, blame my mutuals for putting it on my dash all the time.

(And apologies, but I couldn't seem to find Goncharov among the website's listings)

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