erika

she/her, 24, aries PhD student https://annakxrenina.straw.page

[annakxrenina]

I grew up playing classical piano and once I was tripping on shrooms and my friend put on a trap remix of Mozart and it induced a level of fear in me that I’ve literally never felt before or since

[threedollarsdotcom]

its monday remember to cough blood into your handkerchief and faint and hit your head on a sharp corner and have a beautiful solemn funeral

[bacontoktok]

[cellarspider]

May I present to you Wheel Running In the Wild, a published research paper that delights me to no end:

This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.

Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.

But the second most common users.

Those were slugs.

[tweeterwilbury]

Collecting those rn

[tweeterwilbury]

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[iamthemaestro]

people have said it before but if you read a lot of historical literature you do begin to just sort of think in that style of language. I’ll put down the 18th century journal I’m reading and have to resist the urge to send academic emails with every Noun capitalized and punctuated only by the profuse Usage of the Em-Dash — it is a deceptively challenging Instinct to resist, & worse is that Instinct when spelling certain Words to utilize what would, some Centuries prior, be an appropriate Spelling, excepting that my Correspondence occurs in the Twenty-First Century, where Men are inflexible and uncreative in their Methods, & this Propensity of mine would appear only foolish & incorrect, instead of suggesting what it in actuality reflects, which is that I am simply an Incorrigible Nerd — O! the Woes of modern Sociability! Why should I be compelled to conform to these d——d modern Conventions! Is it not enough to be unabashedly and impudently Autistic?

[sweetgrasswater]

coral knife and fork set from late 16th-century Venice

[fernicenty]

a star of the ocean ✨🦭

[rabbiteclair]

laying awake all night, stressed that I don't know much about sailing ships, and if I were to get conscripted onto an 18th century frigate I wouldn't know what to do, let alone have the necessary upper body strength to perform my duties

[alleesaur]

Red Herring - ever shifting to capture a room's attention, but always fish °‧ 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 ·｡

[anxeious]

source

[butchraskolnikov]

top 3 Raskolnikov moments

1. that time when he’s about to kill himself by jumping off a bridge. then he sees a woman try to do that and fail. he then gets so much second hand embarrassment he decides to live

2. when he goes to Razumikhin’s flat and then gets annoyed when Razumikhin is there

3. his whole detective speech after the scene at Mermeladov’s funeral dinner (did not get involved at all when it was actually important)

[remarkablecows]

[filmictv]

What makes it all so interesting is the infinity. All those parallel universes. Everything-, like, just how big everything is. How insignificant we are, compared to all of the infinite parallel universes that exist.

- Isak Valtersen

[02decay]

via

[interconnectedspiral]

the whole joke is that you’d think it’s a romeo and juliet reference. but you don’t get it until you enter the balcony.

[kriestewart]

your fave is unproblematic: jonas noah vasquez

[iamthemaestro]

people have said it before but if you read a lot of historical literature you do begin to just sort of think in that style of language. I’ll put down the 18th century journal I’m reading and have to resist the urge to send academic emails with every Noun capitalized and punctuated only by the profuse Usage of the Em-Dash — it is a deceptively challenging Instinct to resist, & worse is that Instinct when spelling certain Words to utilize what would, some Centuries prior, be an appropriate Spelling, excepting that my Correspondence occurs in the Twenty-First Century, where Men are inflexible and uncreative in their Methods, & this Propensity of mine would appear only foolish & incorrect, instead of suggesting what it in actuality reflects, which is that I am simply an Incorrigible Nerd — O! the Woes of modern Sociability! Why should I be compelled to conform to these d——d modern Conventions! Is it not enough to be unabashedly and impudently Autistic?