'IF ITS TRUE' FROM HADESTOWN

the eise eisinga planetarium in franeker, the netherlands, the oldest working planetarium in the world. located inside the former home of eise eisinga

When peeps “announce” they’re unfollowing someone

Reblogging to tag @thebibliosphere to add to the utility images list. And hopefully make her chuckle.

Morally speaking your first use of a Death Note is always a freebie, since there's no way any reasonable person would expect it to work

Cmon man

Me talking to my air fryer: Help me. I am a 8 year old boy living in the illegitimate Yankee Capitalist regime. President Xi, our shelves are empty and we are hungry. I am asking you to liberate my state of Connecticut with your Chengdu J-20 Stealth air superiority fighters and your Dongfeng 41 Missiles.

The best thing a character can be is a woman who has something deeply wrong with her

CRISTIN MILIOTI as SOFIA FALCONE The Penguin (2024) | 1.04 Cent'Anni

I don’t want to find out about world events anymore

i love all the predictions like "lol we're gonna find out through supernatural XD" and i wake up and TURNS OUT we're finding out because all my mutuals are reblogging and posting variations of "queer ppl do not kill yourself" which. jesus ok.

This FB post by Rebecca Solnit is the thing keeping me sane this morning,so I’m sharing it here in case it helps you all, too:

“They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving. You may need to grieve or scream or take time off, but you have a role no matter what, and right now good friends and good principles are worth gathering in. Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. The pain you feel is because of what you love.

The Wobblies used to say don't mourn, organize, but you can do both at once and you don't have to organize right away in this moment of furious mourning. You can be heartbroken or furious or both at once; you can scream in your car or on a cliff; you can also get up tomorrow and water the flowerpots and call someone who's upset and check your equipment for going onward.

A lot of us are going to come under direct attack, and a lot of us are going to resist by building solidarity and sanctuary. Gather up your resources, the metaphysical ones that are heart and soul and care, as well as the practical ones.

People kept the faith in the dictatorships of South America in the 1970s and 1980s, in the East Bloc countries and the USSR, women are protesting right now in Iran and people there are writing poetry. There is no alternative to persevering, and that does not require you to feel good. You can keep walking whether it's sunny or raining. Take care of yourself and remember that taking care of something else is an important part of taking care of yourself, because you are interwoven with the ten trillion things in this single garment of destiny that has been stained and torn, but is still being woven and mended and washed.”

seeing a lot of comments like this from the “too young to remember an election before 2016” crowd and as ever it goes to show that usamericans don’t consider foreign people humans. the Obama administration spearheaded over 500 drone strikes and opened up concentration camps to genocide migrants. when you say shit like this, you’re saying “ahhhh remember when i didn’t care about all the crimes of the american empire? good times”. incredibly callous, privileged behaviour.

"It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees."

-Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

something something "loved you best i could," the father figure angle, something about how one of the things that really fucks up people with toxic parents is how hard it is to not let yourself be gaslit into feeling like no matter what they did to you it's still true that you should love them, that you're obligated to, that if you don't it's a failure on your part and shows there's something fundamentally wrong with you and proves the toxicity was probably your fault anyway. love framed as a duty you can fail at, when we were told last season the way you can tell the real thing is when it's so easy it's like breathing. i did my best even if it wasn't very good.

Hey, also, all the anarchist shit aside, tomorrow I want you to make something.

I forced myself to draw something after the 2016 election. I forced myself to draw something when my mother died in 2018. I forced myself to draw something when my spouse was hospitalized for multiple organ failure in 2021.

When you are miserable, make something. Add a row to your project, bake a box cake, draw on a sheet of lined paper, write a poem on a napkin, fold an origami shirt out of a dollar bill, make your favorite recipe for dinner, but make something with your hands, something that you can hold and look at engage your senses in.

It won't fix the world, but it will change the world. You will have made something that didn't exist before. You will have impacted your reality, even in a very small way. And it is going to be something you made *after.* Something bad happened, something shook you, and you made something after, in spite of it.