dash is dead im teleporting to the past

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BEFORE YOU CLICK A LINK!

Reblog this post :) Especially if you’re on mobile, you’ll lose the post if you click the link without thinking. Take a note from your elders before you

Interesting note: It definitely uses whoever you're following now, not at that date. Even the 2020 one includes a lot of people I was absolutely not following yet in Feb 2020, which is actually kind of cool, I can see what they were reblogging from this fandom before I got into it.

15th century Timurid Qur'an copied on Chinese paper from the Ming Dynasty.

o/ <- person waving

o7 <- person saluting

ol <- person raising hand

o1 <- person scratching head

\o> <- person stretching

\o/ <- woohoo!

<o> <- EXTREME STRESS, LIKE "OH FUCK OH SHIT" STRESS

orz <- the person is on their hands and knees, on the floor, god what happened to them

OTL <- same, but we are now closer to them (mb softly pat their back or something)

or2 <- the person is still on their hands and knees but they've got a fat ass now

Did you know

If you perform action Harmlessly Bother Cat you can receive Sounds

If you perform action Ignore Cat you can also receive Sounds, with a percentage chance that they will be Noises instead

Oh, wait, y'all meant "hear me out" as in "don't judge me i know this is so WEIRD and CRINGE and GROSS"

and not "I will explain what appeals to me about this character and perhaps by the end of this, YOU may now desire this character carnally as well"

Wanting to fuck Bowser is good and normal; he's a fine and involved single father that clearly enjoys humoring his frenemies' cucking kink. I get it, you need explain nothing to me about this.

please enlighten me on the lamp from brave little toaster i am fascinated and i want to know more

Huh

I just don't remember enough about this character; I don't know his lore, personality, relationships with other characters, or if it's just the phallic somewhat bulbous nature of his design that would draw someone to want to fuck him! I need the hear me out essay! I AM LISTENING AND LEARNING.

*slowly reaches for the popcorn*

i love every diogenes joke

even under the nuclear family model of found family janeway is NOT tom paris’s mom. he’s the sad mutt she picked up at the shelter for her actual son (harry)

janeway showed up to that penal colony like hello do you have any young men who act cynical and jaded but are actually desperate for redemption. i need one for the gay son i plan on kidnapping adopting

[image description: tweet by Netchimen’s Reverie that reads “Tolkien describing places that are evil: no trees grow there” /end description]

This is doubtless because of his experience of the trenches in the Great War.

Like, this is what things looked like to soldiers who fought in that war (image in black and white of a solitary soldier walking across a muddy wasteland pocked with puddles):

Here’s Delville Wood, the site of a battle in 1916 (sepia image of a wasteland dotted with broken and dead trees):

Here’s an image from the Battle of the Somme, in which Tolkien participated (image of soldiers standing above and inside a trench or earthwork in a grey wasteland; smoke from artillery is on the horizon)

So yeah: no trees = evil was Tolkien’s own direct lived experience. It’s precisely why Mordor and the wastelands around it look like they do in his books.

the plateau of gorgoroth, the heartland of mordor, is described as being scarred by countless pits dug by orcs the true seat of evil is full of foxholes and trenches

There’s a lesson to be learned here.

I hope Tolkien would be happy to learn that a hundred years on, trees grow again here:

From The Atlantic.

I think that Tolkien would be very happy to see that.

stole this from the tl but i need to know

Dr. Gachey with foxglove, 1890

Some of Van Gogh’s best work was done during a period of his life that he spent in a hospital being treated for his mental health problems. I could be wrong but I think Starry Night was among those.

This is consistently the case. Creators tend to do their best work when they are in a healthy place and receiving proper treatment and not being self destructive in their efforts to cope. Go figure.

All our experiences, good and bad, inform what we create, but suffering is not the price of great art. Suffering is what prevents artists from completing great art.

(I bring to mind this @tkingfisher / Ursula Verson quote about once a week <3)

hope is a skill

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

favourite additions

You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.

It may not be apparent to everyone how to easily find out who wrote the poem in the tags, so: @mumblesplash

(an instant-classic example of a Tumblr thread where so many people add value!)

What's your word?

I got "spot"