It's awful.

I guess it is a place where I do things?

[astronomicalwonders]

Star Formation within the Eagle Nebula - M16

This star-forming region is famous for its space pillars that appear in this infrared view from NASA’s Spitzer space telescope. The green dust is the cooler dust and the red dust represents hotter dust that was warmed by the explosion of a massive star 8,000 to 9,000 years ago. Astronomers estimate that the explosions blast wave spread outward and destroyed the eagle nebula’s three famous pillars about 6,000 years about. Since the light from the nebula takes about 7,000 years to reach us we will not witness this destruction for about another 1,000 years.

Credit: NASA/Spitzer

[aleyma]

Dragonfly helmet, made in Japan in the 17th century (source).

High-ranking lords began to embellish their helmets with sculptural forms so that they could be visually located on the battlefield. Exotic helmets (kawari kabuto) also allowed leaders to choose symbolic motifs for their helmets that reflected some aspect of their personality or that of their collective battalions. This helmet is shaped like a giant dragonfly. In Japan, the dragonfly is symbolic of focused endeavor and vigilance because of its manner of moving up, down and sideways while continuing to face forward. In addition, in ancient texts Japan was often referred to as Akitsushima (Land of the Dragonflies), because of their abundance. They were also thought to be the spirits of rice, since they are often to be found hovering above the flooded rice fields. - from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts description

[theotheralice]

[prinxe-deactivated20160619]

shout out to all my homies who also deal with their depression by trying to make people laugh a lot, because you think it’s the only way you can make any sort of happiness, that are really fucked up over this. this is hitting way too close to home and i fucking feel you

[aglock]

Yesterday morning I called my doctor to make an appointment to go back on anti-depressants. Later the suicide of Robin Williams started flooding tumblr. This RW thing has been really hard on me, not him specifically but all of the suicide talk. It has already been a hard summer for me with depression and I finally had admitted that I needed help. And now my dash is like the most depressing place in the world. 

[dendroica]

Dogbane Beetle (by Dendroica cerulea)

[dominodollhouse]

New dress at Dominodollhouse.com: Bow Baby Dress in Grey!  Sizes 14-28 and runs $65.95.

[aglock]

we saw guardians of the galaxy today and there are some sad parts that no one warned me about and it made me cry, and now all afternoon I have just wanted to cry and cry, unrelated to the movie or really anything, just feels like a crying day.

[lustik]

Monster Benches - Lorna Watt and Jill Watt via Andrew Salomone.

Lustik:  twitter | pinterest | etsy

[loveandasandwich]

I think the couches of my dream home are going to look something like this.

[aglock]

When people know shit about you, even if it's not like super bad shit, like if someone knows you are going through early menopause, or you can't have babies, or something else you might be sensitive about, and they make a rude comment/joke about it (especially in the middle of a discussion unrelated, like if we are arguing about abortion you don't need to bring up my fertility problems or something) - that's not trolling, that's being a jackass.

Also, frankly, if you are really trolling your friends, trying to make them upset, you're also a jackass. WHY WOULD YOU TROLL YOUR FRIENDS WHEN THERE IS A WHOLE INTERNET OF STRANGERS POSTING ON NEWS ARTICLES TO TROLL?? 

With some people trolling is like.. when you play that hand slapping game, and you always win, and they get mad and punch you in the nose and you're like, uh no that's not the game, and then they go, GUESS YOU DON'T LIKE LOSING THE GAME HUH?? Like they just can't see the difference between joking with a friend and trying to purposely hurt someone.

I used to troll some of my more annoying "friends" and what I realized was that, if I liked the person, my comments might be hurtful, and I didn't want to do that so I stopped. And if I didn't like the person, I just unfriended them and moved on. And I have, for the past couple of years, tried really hard to not make "jokes" that could hurt people that I care about. Sometimes when people are vague-booking and being annoying I have to temporarily hide them to avoid possibly saying something rude (though I have gotten good about not having this impulse anymore) because the most important thing to me with interacting with my friends, especially online, is that I NEVER INTEND TO HURT THEM.

I love my friends and when I do unintentionally hurt them I feel shitty and always apologize. I don't go, Oh, you can't take a joke, lololol, or whatever. Sometimes people are hurt by things I don't even realize. I just try every day to be conscious of the fact that my words could hurt a person I care about.

[aglock]

current house status:

about 10 days of work so far (almost done!)

photographer going out tomorrow to take pics for the listing

being listed Friday noon-ish

had a pre-inspection you know, for no reason, the realtor we like, eh why bother

oh but hey we got like a rat colony in the attic so that's cool

I hired Dale from King of the Hill or maybe Charlie Kelly to go out there with his rat stick and murder them

There's like 6 pages of still broken stuff I just haven't had the heart to look at yet but the contractor is working on

BUT hey it's still going on the market this weekend???

that's pretty exciting!!

The landscaper was also there today

and now I need to have a roofer I guess

and possibly an electrician

all these expenses it reminds me of the week before our wedding - just throwing money at people so that I don't cry

[dendroica]

Lava flow - volcano (by chuckobear)

[grapeson]

Rick Ross wearing a chain of himself wearing a chain of himself. 

[zaddylonglegs]

this is the level of flagrancy that I want to be on

[aglock]

ok, but then I need the head to pop off and it to be filled with hot fudge sauce.

[twiststreet]

"Back in the day, Walter would, every once in a while, forget how to draw. Remember?" Louise said. “Oh yeah,” Walter agreed. “That still happens occasionally. It’s like, ‘Oh my god, nothing I’m drawing looks any good anymore. My life is over as an artist.’ And what I realized, because I was an editor at the time, and had seen a lot of work go past me, was that when you hit this phase where suddenly your stuff, which looks just like it did yesterday, doesn’t look good to you anymore, it’s because your mind has made a leap. Your brain has gotten farther than your hand has learned to do it yet. But eventually, give it a few weeks, keep it up and you’ve made a leap in your own craft. That was a big help because it was so depressing when you realize you couldn’t draw anymore.”

From an interview with Walt and Louise Simonson. (via twiststreet)

Exactly this. 

(via mckelvie)

Wow. Well, there’s one game-changing thought technology.

Damn.

(via merlin)

So important and so easy to forget.

(via weareallangry)

[dendroica]

Lava life (by loveexploring)

[thevoyaging]

Temple Entry, Japan

photo via amy

[exclusivelylouisck]