Not to sound like a fuckin hippie but please for the love of god start noticing and appreciating the natural world around you. You don’t have to go hike the entire Appalachian trail or anything and I get that not everyone has access to the outdoors for various reasons, but just fucking … look around you when you’re outside. Notice the sky and the sun and the birds and creatures. Start caring about them. I’m begging you.
'Inkheart' by Cornelia Funke, illustration by Alice Cao
the bottom of the museum of human history
#oh man. I am in love with this image.#the idea of a museum with this at the heart of it? the slope down to it?#that you have to unravel the past like a skein of thread as you travel deeper and and deeper backwards in time#to this. the first fire. the way it illuminated the painted walls; the way the aurochs leapt with the flames#ah. perfect. (via @notbecauseofvictories)
yeah “i can teach you” is kind and gentle and warm and comforting. it’s also hot. right
no more group chats. we meet once a week from now on and everyone prepares 2 personal stories and 3-5 memes and we sit in a circle and have a Socratic seminar covering these topics
Temi Oh, More Perfect
I was thinking about Katniss and Peeta preparing to eat the berries back-to-back again, and yes yes yes it was about trust, they didn’t have to look at each other to hold each other accountable to their pact, but it also shows that neither of them cared if the other carried it through. Both of them were willing to die for the other to go home if the other decided to not eat the berries. Being back-to-back was also about how they still wanted the other to live while they died. But ultimately their trust was not misplaced because both of them took the gamble and had to spit the berries out. Also, imo, back-to-back was more defiant. It was, as Peeta said, about holding the berries out so everyone could see.
Wait ok now I have to expand on Peeta’s defiance here, because he spends the entire Games trying to keep Katniss alive. His strategy is always to ensure Katniss’s survival. But then, at the very end, he’s willing to die in a double suicide with her to stick it to the Capitol. Yes he loves Katniss, yes all of his rebellion was built on his love for her, because love in itself is defiant, but it’s also bigger than that!! He wanted to be more than a piece in their Games and his way of doing that was to play for Katniss’s life. But then, in the end, both of them defied the Capitol because neither were willing to leave the arena without the other, because they weren’t willing to play by the Capitol’s rules.
I'll never get over the way he DRAGGED her to the water to wash her mouth out while he was literally BLEEDING TO DEATH
Webb’s latest image is the clearest look at Neptune’s rings in 30+ years, and our first time seeing them in infrared light. Take in Webb’s ghostly, ethereal views of the planet and its dust bands, rings and moons. (Some of these rings have not been detected since Voyager 2 flew by in 1989!)
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
A Mourning dove gets cozy, and settles in, to experience the sunset.
“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)
having short-term memory is like. this book profoundly affected me. that show bared my soul. i don’t remember a single thing about it. but it did
marina eerrie
xi pan, spring
Obligatory reference to sample size.
