(({{{&&&}}})) @acuriousconstellation - Tumblr Blog

Oh look an intro post

What to call me: I don't really have a nickname from my url so make one up I guess? Or just Curious is fine, some ( @shortgaything ) call me Stella which aaaa its so cute. Love that.

she/her

I am 18 now but don't be creepy

INTP-T, Pisces, Scotland

Please dont tag me in tag game things unless you see it and are like omg Stella would love this specific thing so much. I have so many in my drafts that idk if I'm ever gonna do, if you want someone to tag try @heartstopper-lover123 cos I know she loves them <3

Media I enjoy!!

Books!

Magonia ({&&&&}), the Raven boys (mourning that she's done with them), cackle (rachel harrison. Please read it), six of crows, shadow and bone, good omens, all for the game (omg im obsessed) song of achilles and circe, all for the game, heartstopper, loveless, solitaire and the rest of the osemanverse. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE!!! (On a classics rampage rn)

Shows!

What we do in the shadows, the wilds, I am not okay with this, our flag means death, good omens, lockwood &Co, love victor, yonderland, gentleman jack, sherlock, heartstopper, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 1995!!!

Movies!

Lisa frankenstein, ladybird, the map of tiny perfect things, Emma (2020) what we do in the shadows, loving vincent, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2005!!!

Music!

Florence + The Machine, The Last Dinner Party, Orla Gartland, Hozier, Paris paloma, Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo, Fleetwood mac, Daisy jones & the six, maybe some Kate bush and the cure if i feel like it and also the horrible histories songs but just the old ones

Proud member of the file extention fandom

Things I like:

ampersands (&) i just love them so much. They're so beautiful and useful and interesting and and &&&&. <33 (or perhaps <&???)

Sewing and fashion and clothes etc, I make some of my own. Ask me about it I dare you

i had a very very minor mild obsession with space. that phase started around age 6 and hasn't really ended. so very minor. Less about the sciency bit and more the poetic, artistic beauty of it all. I still have glow in the dark stars and comets hanging from threads from my bedroom roof and a couple of telescopes and like a shit ton of books. anyway i still love space and shit but less sciency more just the aesthetic cos its pretty so anyway thats the story behind my url

I love lights. The stars the stars the stars. The moon the moon the moon. glow in the dark patterns on duvet covers and plastic stars, cities at night, roads in the dark, when everyone has their phone torch on at a concert, crepuscular light through the clouds, when the sun is low in the sky and sets the sky of fire When you half close your eyes when the sun is on your face and it makes the rainbow oil spill hexagon things. Also just like. Clouds. They're so pretty. I love the different shapes and patterns they can make, how they look in different lighting. Just the sky in general really. I have the eyes of an impressionist. Not great at landscapes at the moment tho...

i do my own gel nails every month or so and i do nail art cos one colour is kinda boring. Always looking for ideas. Send them to me please. I'm running out of ideas. Help.

i have like 2bish curly hair so that is a struggle sometimes, any product or hair routines etc recommendations would be greatly appreciated

Art. Of any kind. Loving Vincent van gogh at the moment. And also klimt monet, all the cliched ones. But also I believe that anything and everything is art. If it makes you feel something. It's art. The world is just so fucking beautiful. I love romance but like the movement and philosophy of looking for the beauty in everything, in every tiny mundane part of your life. I think everyone should romanticise their life but not by hiding what isn't romantic, but by appreciating it and finding the beauty

i want to see the world. I can't imagine living my whole life in the same 50 mile radius. Soon I will be old enough and brave enough to go places that I've never been without someone with me. There is so much beauty everywhere and i want to see as much as i can

DNI if you're bigoted, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, TERFs etc

Icon by me. I think I was a bit depressed when I drew it. Or there'd be trees. I might change it. Maybe on paper this time cos digital art is hard. And with trees. Ive become more of a green person than blue/purple. And tbh im glad to leave the purple version of myself behind.

Tags that I use:

#The stars speak - my original thoughts, posts, etc etc. Anything that's me speaking

#for science - polls. Please please please reblog these so I can get more than 8 votes. Even tho I've been on here for like 3 years I've got a very small community. And most of my moots have a bigger community so they don't often see my posts :(

#the mutuals <3 - interacting with the besties <3

Posts I kinda just want to keep just cos there's stuff I like about them idk

The tags of this one omg <3

Whatever the fuck this is

Mutuals of note (besties <3):

Disclaimer! I call everyone my bestie. That kid I sat next to in engish for 2 months when I was 12 was my bestie (hi joe)(there is a 100% chance he is not on here), my pals mum who ive spoken to exactky 3 times is my bestie (hi agata)(she is also definutely not on tumblr), that author who's books I love so dearly is my bestie (hi Maggie)(ok she might actually be on here but is far too famous and successful to be reading this). Point is, if you chat to me even a little bit i may add you to this (if I remember) I had a few months away from tumblr and can't really remember who is who, so I apologise if we've had conversations before/if I can't remember things.

@aspenii, most beloved of mutuals.

@heartstopper-lover123, tag her in all your tag games <3

@fraudfrogz whom I have not spoken to in a long time, but who is my intp bestie always and forever <3 and who also made me all my blinkies!! <33

@mangomarmalade13 who has taught me much about the nuances of learning to drive in the usa

There are more besties but it's my bedtime so I will go to sleep now and probably not update this for another year

If you are sad because you are not on this list it is probably because I feel like I'm not one of your most beloved mutuals. Not the other way round, send me an ask or something with the first question that comes into your head, the song that's stuck in your head right now, or the book you're currently reading.

Flashing blinkies below the cut

#intro post #pinned post #about me #the stars speak

dogposts

An archivist found a long forgotten 8mm film reel in an old metal box, marked “Philippines 1942”. Thinking it was lost WWII footage, he sent it in to be restored/digitized. When he got the footage back, he found puppies instead (via)

gayluigi

This is so freaking profound. Like, this was before the advent of the personal camera. Not just anyone owned a camera in these days. Cameras were expensive, and so was the film. When you were recording shit, it had to be stuff you were willing to shell out a pretty penny to have preserved. Someone so deeply and profoundly loved these dogs and found joy in them that they decided to preserve them for future generations to see, after these pups are long dead and gone. This camera operator wanted to preserve the joy these dogs brought them and to share it with others. How incredible is that?

Worst part of coming back to tumblr as an intermittent user is the fucking ui has changed

#the stars speak

petaltexturedskies

Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to his wife Vera Slonim, dated 24 March 1937, from Letters to Véra

reportsfromordinary

i don’t sit with this often enough: i live in an apartment that looks and feels like it is mine. the walls house art that caught my eye. my book collection lines all the shelves in all the rooms. i can sit perched on my floor cushion, here in my living room, and a single glance about the room reveals it: i’m surrounded by possessions that feel like me. that exude my tastes, my preferences, that capture a selfhood now immortalized (if immortality is a 12-month lease) in space.

i think about the watercolor art pieces with the woodland creatures living in whimsy. a creature, sun on their face, saying, “i’m rich.” i am my own creature, who mary oliver would confirm allows the soft animal of her body love what it loves, sitting in her living room, thinking, “i’m rich.”

artmialma

Pavlos Samios (1948-2021)

lexbians

Would you describe prev as more Kiki or Bouba?

Kiki

Bouba

Voting ended onFeb 18

In my sudocrem era

#the stars speak

tescosfinest-deactivated2013111

i’m using Internet Explorer, i hope this posts quickly. happy new year 2011

grunkypeep

i hate when men complain about women’s body hair, even like the fine hair on their backs. go fuck a shark if you wanna have sex with something hairless

cannedviennasnausage

#shark skin is actually covered in tiny barbs #aka teeth #they are literally a swimming tooth

I suddenly have the urge to grate cheese on a great white

flanoirbunny

wouldn’t that make the shark a

grate white

shutupandtalkgeekytome

This post got weird

jennytrout

This post started with fucking hairless sharks. Weird wasn’t a destination so much as a jumping off point.

captainclickycat

I’ve never been so surprised not to encounter the word “smooth” in a text post

one-time-i-dreamt

There was a dancing plague that caused people to dance the Cha Cha Slide until they dropped dead.

adulthumanproblem-deactivated20

#florencr and the machine #she has a whole album about this

killherfreakout

"We can...be together. For real." Ilya looked stunned by that part. "You really think that far ahead, Hollander?" "I do about this." "You want that? To be together?" "I do. So much it terrifies me." Ilya turned his face away from Shane, and was silent. Cold dread flooded Shane's stomach; he had admitted too much. But Ilya turned back and quickly rolled on top of Shane and was kissing him and kissing him and kept murmuring the same thing in Russian over and over again until he pulled back and translated: "I love you."

Heated Rivalry, Chapter Twenty-Five

meatdiaz

i want to take a moment to express genuine gratitude towards heated rivalry the tv show and everyone involved with making it happen because. i kind of almost didn’t know we could have this? a beautiful and intense and intimate queer love story with a happy ending that doesn’t try to sell us something else and doesn’t try to be sexless to seem more palatable for straight people and doesn’t feel forced and where nobody’s acting like they’re doing us a huuuge big favor for letting it exist. it means a lot