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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 31

january wrap up <3

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Jan 29

thinking again of this work of art. this work of shattering grief, of enduring love. a work that is somehow, at the same time, a kind of magical play

a spilled pile of candy in the corner of an art gallery

"Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) is a 1991 piece by Felix Gonzalez-Torres in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It's a spilled pile of candy.

The pile of candy consists of commercially available, shiny wrapped confections. The physical form of the work changes depending on the way it is installed. The work ideally weighs 175 pounds (161 kg) at installation, which is the average body weight of an adult male. "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) represents a specific body, that of Ross Laycock, Gonzalez-Torres' partner who died of AIDS in 1991. This piece of art serves as an "allegorical portrait," of Laycock's life.

Visitors are invited to take a piece of candy from the work. Gonzalez-Torres grew up Roman Catholic and taking candy is a symbolic act of communion, but instead of taking a piece of Christ, the participant partakes of the "sweetness" of Ross. As the patrons take candy, they are participants in the art. Each piece of candy consumed is like the illness that ate away at Ross's body.

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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 30

it's a tie between garcia and reid

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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 30

some recent books faves:
✦ in memoriam by alice winn
✦ dark rise by cs pacat
✦ she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan
✦ the death i gave him by em x liu
✦ siren queen by nghi vo
✦ the vegetarian by han kang

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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 30

#promosky #booksky #filmsky

i love:
✦ fantasy, horror, classics (books and film)
✦ shakespeare
✦ criminal minds
✦ stardew valley
✦ crusader kings iii
✦ writing
✦ fashion
✦ knitting

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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 30

when a cat slightly bites you as a form of a kiss

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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 26

open.spotify.com/track/6Q57OH...

Violin

Kate Bush · Never for Ever · Song · 1980

open.spotify.com

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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 26

english needs a gossip tense

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adelle k. @ MCM K-09 @klimtsonian.bsky.social · Nov 14

what this dungeon really needs is a femininomenom 💀🌱✨

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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 25

although once again the make up that's good on me is not the one in the fun packaging 👎

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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 25

just as i started leaving the dm happy that the two highlight/blush palettes i had been eyeing don't fit me and am therefore saving money, my eyes catch onto a palette that does

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oobleckvibe.bsky.social @oobleckvibe.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hello everyone I have had an influx of followers that are raising funds for their survival. I am not online 24/7 but I have (& will continue to) put the accounts i come across on this list & i encourage all to routinely check this list to repost & donate if u can. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 25

back on the german + chinese grind

rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 25

already did an hour of flashcards but there are two very flashcard background looking videos in my yt subscription tab... much to think about

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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 23

rumi's review of I Can Fix Her

5/5: *4.5 “God may love you, but not better than me” If I had to be concise I’d say that the toxic sapphic horror novella subgenre has never known a bad book and this continues to be the case. I thi...

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rumi 🐚 @balkanwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 23

will post the review when im done but toxic sapphics horror enjoyers do i have a book for you

pitched as "this is how you lose the time war x things have gotten worse since we last spoke" and yeah! beyond perfect comp titles