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[animate-mush]

If there were a way to make this my userpic I would

[evgenythegreat]

me: wow, what a helpful map at the beginning of this copy of crime and punishment! i sure hope it doesn’t contain any major plot spoilers

the helpful map:

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OH NO

[sicut-in-caelo-et-in-terra]

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*takes deep breath*

AND THIS IS WHY CATECHESIS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD IS

NONSENSE

[patchwork-pam]

fuck catastrophizing. i'm successtraphizing. i'm spiraling upwards. what if everything goes right? what if they love me?

[prokopetz]

Strictly speaking, "ultimate" means "last", not "best". It's often figuratively employed in the latter sense to suggest that the thing so described is the final word on the subject, after which nothing more need be said, but if we're being real technical, describing a game or movie that was so bad it killed its entire franchise as the "ultimate" is in fact correct.

[prokopetz]

@ffoxer replied:

Now I'm thinking about the prefix "pen," which as far as I can think I may have only ever seen in "penultimate"

It's Latin for "nearly" or "almost", and it does pop up in a few other English words. "Penultimate", "penumbra" and "peninsula" are the only ones I can think of that you'd even remotely expect to encounter in everyday speech, though; the rest are all medical or mathematical jargon.

[prokopetz]

#so peninsula means what? #almost island? #lmao (via @actualanxiousswampwitch)

That is the actual etymology of the word "peninsula", yes.

[zandraart]

bloop bloop

[wdarlingyap]

if you are a writer who finds themselves unable to think and are getting more and more frustrated, perhaps consider...

the last time you had anything to eat

the last time you had anything to drink

whether or not you have moved your body lately

whether or not you have had enough rest

i'm not saying these things are always the cause. i'm just saying these things are often the cause.

[random-brushstrokes]

Aimé Stevens - The poppies (1908)

[basingstokemercury]

hmm are there any reasonably-known stories around where a main character has hallucinations or delusions at times and it's just a thing they experience, not plot-relevant or supernatural or obviously caused by traumatic events in the story or anything?

[animate-mush]

My first thought was Dexter with hallucinating (?) his father all the time but Dexter's whole deal is very much informed by childhood trauma, but that put me in mind of Bob Fraser on Due South but Bob is a ghost and probably not a hallucination, and that's a whole different thing

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[crapbirdphotography]

[basingstokemercury]

There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill,

And there they brew a beer so brown

That the Man in the Moon himself came down one night to drink his fill.

The ostler has a tipsy cat that plays a five-stringed fiddle;

And up and down he runs his bow

Now squeaking high, now purring low. now sawing in the middle.

The landlord keeps a little dog that is mighty fond of jokes;

When there's good cheer among the guests,

He cocks an ear at all the jests and laughs until he chokes.

They also keep a hornéd cow as proud as any queen;

But music turns her head like ale

And makes her wave her tufted tail and dance upon the green.

And O! the rows of silver dishes and the store of silver spoons!

For Sunday there's a special pair,

And these they polish up with care on Saturday afternoons.

Ah, now this I know! Knew it long before actually reading LotR, in fact!

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Old Sitka Spruce with ferns and perfect lighting

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Sun vs Fog:

That awesome rock

The sun comes out

Looking North

Through the trees

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Today's flowers:

St John's Wort, Fireweed, Yarrow, Blackberries, and Lupines!

[animate-mush]

Heading down to the Prarie Elk section of Redwood Natl Park today anyone want anything?

[animate-mush]

We actually went to a place not redwoods instead. This one:

So like. I'm not mad

For @true-neutral-kobold : the sky through the trees:

And perhaps more impressive, the rocks through the trees!

For @tinyyellowflowers-blog : blackberries!

...and some Tiny Yellow Flowers (Hypericum)

For @ibrithir-was-here : cool fungi

And mysterious creatures...

Additionally I did see (but failed to photograph) both an osprey and an otter. We also found bear poop! But I have tragically reached my photo limit...