the sea is the earth’s most haunted environment. the density of ghosts per square metre is unparalleled. every tide is a time machine. every whale song is a spirit box

It seems Viago De Riva’s VA and his husband/partner just lost EVERYTHING in the CA Wildfires. These are hard times for so many, but if you have the extra money, this seems a good cause.

Here’s his IG post and the link to the Go Fund Me is below.

GOFUNDME LINK FOR DONATIONS.

Thanks Crows!

Disclaimer: Breaking a few of my own blog rules on this (breaking the reality fourth wall/highlighting the personal lives of VAs) but this is important.

Please reblog this, especially if you don’t have the funds to donate xx

As of my rb the GoFundMe is about 95% of the way to its goal, let’s see if we can get it past 100!

So Disco Elysium is the only game you've ever really liked

I get it! It's a phenomenal game with superb art and writing, and its themes are consistent and deeply explored. It sets a high bar for video games. But there are other really, really fantastic games out there. This is a list that is 100% my own taste of things that aren't necessarily similar, other than the fact that they're really fucking good. (A lot of these are on sale for the Steam Summer Sale until July 11 2024!)

“hey can we please have a normal conversation at dinner tonight.”

“what do you mean?”

“i mean can you please not bring up… y’know…..”

“no, i don’t know. what shouldn’t i bring up??”

“…forget it. i’m sure it’ll be fine.”

[2 hours later]

“—and the really interesting thing isn’t just that Dr. Cook figured out how to give the men of the Belgica antiscorbutics in their diet while they were trapped in the Antarctic, but that he also had the idea of light therapy by effectively prescribing the men who’d endured months of pure darkness to stand in front of a roaring fire. He didn’t just keep the men alive, he kept them from losing their minds entirely. It’s no wonder that Roald Amundsen felt so drawn to him—“

Stephen Tennant as Prince Charmimg, 1927, Photo by Cecil Beaton

Hello, I wish you all the best. It has been more than four months and we have not reached the goal, my friends. This is because the support is very bad and weak. Therefore, I hope that you will help and donate so that we can reach the goal as quickly as possible, especially since the prices of food and supplies have become very high. We cannot buy flour, wheat, baby milk, or even the most basic necessities that can help us survive, especially since we are now in the winter season and live in dilapidated tents that do not protect us from the cold of winter or even the heat of summer. Therefore, I hope that you will donate, please, and I hope that you will share on the widest scale. You can donate even a small amount, perhaps up to $5. A little bit at a time can enable us to buy milk for our children.

•Sun Bleached Flies, Ethel Cain, 2022•

•Nosferatu, dir. Robert Eggers, 2024•

when he understood that its not fitz who brought the first bouquets on his own + someone else found a way to consoled him

Friday Treat Time and we’re saying yes to the dress with this cream Madras lace wedding dress from about 1829!  Featuring a wide neckline, a bell shaped skirt and epic voluminous sleeves, it’s a silhouette that showcases the influence of Romanticism on fashion at this time.

via Fashion Museum Bath Twitter

Puzzle purse love tokens from 1790 to 1816

dreams growing darker

televangelism-ethel cain/godliness in the terror

the way the men desperately hold onto god as their circumstances become increasingly alien & the only way for them to understand their suffering is to refer back to god — only for goodsir to realize before his death that god may not have been watching over them.

Wishing everyone a splendid Shackleton Shrug Sunday

virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions : "to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones."

i think they shouldve taken me on a polar expedition not because i would be useful or especially resilient but because my preexisting mental health conditions would have made me an interesting wildcard

something something tarquin sees ashur's face for the first time

I made it into Polygon!!!!

Real ones who know me from my Monster Factory Fanfic days know how long I've been a fan of Polygon's games journalism. Today I realize a 10 year dream by getting a little blurb in my oldest source of games news.