flors de baladre

soundtrack enthusiast, lover of soup.

[blasteffect]

NGC 1850 Star Cluster,

Processing credit: Mehmet Hakan ÖZSARAÇ,

Credit: NASA, ESA and P. Goudfrooij (Space Telescope Science Institute)

[sioltach]

firefly field

[firstfullmoon]

About the dark matter holding together the universe, poet and astrophysicist Rebecca Elson writes, “It’s as if all there were, were fireflies / and from them you could infer the meadow.” I saw so many fireflies today; I marched and chanted and wept with 150,000 of them. In my head: At least we are many, at least we are many, at least we are many. We are making a light that proves the existence of a meadow you can’t yet see. It’s a green bright place where children everywhere are allowed to grow old. You can join us there if you like.

— Kaveh Akbar, At Least We Are Many: Resisting the Drums of War

[random-brushstrokes]

Claude Monet - Coucher De Soleil À Pourville, Pleine Mer (1882)

[mountainbaby25]

Aurora Borealis.

[farewell-to-lorien]

Refraction - Whimsical, by Seamus Dao.

[weltenwellen]

Peonies Mary Oliver

[reemillustrated]

snoopy reads the brothers karamazov!

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

Gonna make one hundred soups this year. Starting off with kapustnyak, carrot soup, chickpea soup, and parsnip soup.

4% complete.

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8% complete baybeee. This may end up being a long post. Hope you like the colour of the soup.

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Can't stop won't stop. 15 soups so far.

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Slowed down for a minute because vet bills ate up my grocery budget but made it to 20%, baybEEEE.

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Whoops I slowed down but BAM, 25%. I'm gonna make a comeback baybeeEEEE.

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I AM BECOMING SO POWERFUL

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Four new BEAN BASED SOUPS, the first one trailblazing because it was a taco soup recipe courtesy of @alex-of-1000-dumbasseries. 61 IN THE BAG, 39 TO GO.

I am also linking my soup planning doc because I can, and it's easier than tagging all of them individually.

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Have I lost all my followers yet? NOT YET. Time for more soups. I'm up to 70 now.

[themythicalcodfish]

OP this is a gorgeous post and I’m so proud of you

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Thank you, I will take these codfish words to my grave. Also, I have achieved 8 more, putting me at 77 soups. How is 70 plus 9 photos 77? I'm glad you asked.

Earlier, I forgot to include a photo of my cock-a-leekie-soup (#57) - pictured above as the first one of this set - and also I MADE TARATOR TWICE by accident so I've struck one from the record since I'm trying to make 100 soups here, not 99 and one twice.

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

A new bowl approaches. Bought myself some soup bowls from the 70s with goofy little geese on them for my own birthday (though I did not get them in time for my miyeok-guk), because what else is free will for. This puts me at 86. I JUST MIGHT MAKE IT? SOMEHOW?

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

A COLOURFUL BATCH featuring another Certified Tumblr Soup because people kept recommending Yeto's Soup, and they were right.

How am I at 92? ALL MY LIFE I'VE BEEN A QUITTER.

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100/100!

[baroque-art-history]

Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke, and Cherries (1625) by Clara Peeters

[kimsfavs]

Great Egret dancing, Hungary. Photo by Bence Máté

[anthro-apology]

Anne Carson (2009)

Arthur S. Way (1898)

George Theodoridis (2010)

Ian C. Johnston (2010)

E.P. Coleridge (1910)

Theodore Alois Buckley (1892)

John Peck, Frank Nisetich (1995)

R. Potter (1906)

M. L. West (1987)

William Arrowsmith (1958)

Philip Vellacott (1972)

Michael Wodhull (1782)

Kenneth McLeish (1997)

David Kovacs (2002)

Andrew Wilson (1993)

Euripides - Original (408 BCE)

[hagiomoto]

List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending

Israel says it's suspending humanitarian organizations that have failed to meet its new rules to vet international groups working in Gaza.

30 December 2025

This left only Gaza based mutual aid networks. That's why you need to donate to the following aid groups on recurring basis:

The Sameer Project

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

Mona's Initiatives

Hussein Team

[akajustmerry]

may 2026 bring us closer to a Palestine liberated from zionist occupation, and a Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan free from proxy exploitation. May 2026 see more people gain the courage to make the world a little better than before. May we all remember to tend seeds whose trees we may never sit beneath. Consider donating to/sharing The Sameer Project, or Khartoum Aid Kitchen or Focus Congo. All power to all the people. Happy new year.

[thingssheloves-deactivated20151]

[rherlotshadow]

“There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kind of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep - then they appear.“ 

Tove Jansson: Moominland Midwinter.

[pomegranates-and-photos]

A Palestinian boy throws a rock during the first intifada

[nowinexile]

His name is Ramzi Abu Redwan. During the time the picture was taken he was 8 years old. Today he is 36 and has become a world-class solo musician and composer, playing the Oud, Buzuq, Violin and Viola. 

He was discovered by a Palestinian musician who recognized his natural talent at the viola, and later received a scholarship to study at a conservatory in France. He could have stayed there and lived a comfortable life in Paris, but instead, he chose to return home and give back the gift of music by openning music schools in Palestinian towns and refugee camps.

[sherryzade]

he’s got a spotify btw!! if you’ve never heard a oud, i def encourage listening to his work. it’s a beautiful instrument from a beautiful people ❤🖤🤍💚

here’s my personal fave of what i’ve heard so far from his top 5