[holespoles]

Tove Jansson (1914–2001) Moominland Midwinter

[amygdarling]

The average westerner spends 90% of their time inside. Horrifying

[amygdarling]

I just applied for a compost bin rebate through my local council and they made me pledge that I would participate in creating a circular economy by using my compost bin. Which is nice I guess

[amygdarling]

one of our neighbours called our property manager to complain about our grass not being mowed (did it three days ago) !?!

[amygdarling]

My body is rejecting living here so bad I just have minor health problem after minor health problem and each problem stresses me out more so it gets worse before it gets better. Meanwhile I am unable to move away because I’m trying to be a less selfish partner but at what cost

[shareddreamingexperiment]

mouse with wheat thin

[shareddreamingexperiment]

my ghoulish physique

[amygdarling]

I went to school with a kid called Christopher Nolan and I’ve gotta say as someone who doesn’t really watch movies the past few years of my life have been very confusing

[earthanthem]

Tiny frog inside garden rose

[amygdarling]

Had to explain to my coworker today that Nolan’s the odyssey is a work of fiction and not necessarily a perfect reproduction of Homer’s odyssey, nor a perfect representation of real life ancient Greek morality.

[amygdarling]

Part of my job is unfortunately monitoring the news and recently for some reason the Murdoch press empire has locked me out of my account and I can’t log in and I haven’t told anyone at work yet because honestly. It’s peaceful. Maybe I just don’t want to know anymore

[russellzimages]

[roseredfingers]

“You think that you can judge what’s good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don’t mind me saying so. Brecht is always showing the temptation towards good as something that you have to withstand. If you go back into political theory, you can read the same thing in Machiavelli, and even in a certain sense in Kant. So Eichmann and many other people were very often tempted to do what we call good. They withstood it precisely because it was a temptation.”

— Hannah Arendt, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[maculategiraffe]

reading the collected letters of shirley jackson and this is from a letter to her agent while she was working on the haunting of hill house

[amygdarling]

I’ve just started an undergrad cert bc it was free and seemed like a good idea but clearly I had forgotten what full time study is like because how did I think I would fit this in alongside my full time job, hobbies, and all other life activities !

[amygdarling]

The Ursula quote doesn’t hit the same when you’re from a small island - the boundary very much defines the rocks, trees and sunrises

[shakespearesdaughters]

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

[thecryptkeeper]

i cast goodnight mutuals