Lives in a GSR rabbit hole. 🐰💕🐰

Again we wander—we love—we separate again; Again she holds me by the hand—I must not go! I see her close beside me, with silent lips, sad and tremulous.*

I Want You; or, The First Time

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I Want You; or, The First Time Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gil Grissom/Sara Sidle Characters: Gil Grissom, Sara Sidle Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Pre-Canon, Romance, Fluff, Smut, First Time, Hotel Sex, An Intimate Encounter, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, but not without feelings, Porn with Feelings, lots and lots of feelings, Spiritually a One-shot, It Felt Like the First Time, because it was

Summary:

February 12, 1998. The 50th Annual AAFS Conference. The Hilton San Francisco and Towers Hotel.

Sara Sidle had never been to a forensic academy conference before.

Sara Sidle had never invited herself up to a man’s hotel room before.

Sara Sidle had never spent the night with a man 15 years her senior before.

But there’s a first time for everything.

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foreshadowing done well makes me go feral like there’s NOTHING better than getting to the end a book or an important storyline moment and realising that the author laced information so intricately into their writing that weren’t noticeable upon first read but when you read back sections they’re light giant red flags like wow writing is amazing

the best stories contain two stories: the one you read the first time, and the one you read every time after that

Αrt by Lionel Lindsay, (1874 - 1961).

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Untitled - Anders Kjær , 2023.

Norwegian , b. 1940 -

Lithography

''what if my writing isn't good eno--'' what if it's a reflection of your soul. what if it has a place in this world. what if you write it anyway

Photographer Omar Sarsour

fun fact about languages: a linguist who was studying aboriginal languages of Australia finally managed to track down a native speaker of the Mbabaram language in the 60s for his research. they talked a bit and he started by asking for the Mbabaram word for basic nouns. They went back and forth before he asked for the word for “dog” The man replied “dog” They had a bit of a “who’s on first” moment before realizing that, by complete coincidence,  Mbabaram and English both have the exact same word for dog.

on a similar note, a traditional Ojibwe greeting is “Nanaboozhoo” so when the French first landed in southern Canada they thought that they were saying “Bonjour!” Which is fucking wild to think about. Imagine crossing the ocean and the first people you meet in months somehow speak French. 

Given that we famously don’t know the origin of the English word “dog”, I have decided to adopt an utterly batshit folk etymology conspiracy theory. As a treat.

For a while I just assumed that the English “potluck”, was derived from Chinook Jargon “potlatch”. Both describe comparable practices of guests contributing resources to a larger community-wide feast. But a little digging quickly reveals no etymological relation; instead of one, I got TWO! interesting linguistic insights into distinct cultures.

Here’s some more!

‘Ciao’ is from what now.

Per Wiktionary—

Okay then!

Gamma Cas and Friends

Credits: NoelCarboni, New ForestObservatory

being a writer leads to a genuinely helpful but also very stupid kind of mindfulness where you'll be having a sobbing breakdown or the worst anxiety attack of your life and think "okay, I really need to pay attention to how this feels. so I can incorporate it into my fanfiction."

1926 Stangl Pottery tea set. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

life goes on no matter what and that’s both comforting and heartbreaking