[cosmonautroger]

[thesnicketfile]

“[Lemony Snicket’s readers] seem to be getting depressed, yes. Of course, I don’t know what else they are reading. Maybe they are going home and reading Kafka’s Diaries, where some of the same lessons can be found.”

— Daniel Handler

[starminsters]

HDM alphabet series → A is for Alethiometer

The alethiometer, nicknamed the symbol-reader, was a clock-like device that was used to communicate with Dust and find truthful answers to one's questions. Only six alethiometers were ever made. The alethiometer had thirty-six symbols, each of which had countless meanings.

[jaqobis]

truly think one of the other lowkey funniest moments in hdm is when mrs coulter says she and asriel should've kept and raised lyra. like it's such a poignant scene, and i see where she was coming from, but also she was completely wrong. oh god. if there are two people who should not be around a child it's asriel "child killer" belacqua and marisa "child torture, for science" coulter. like, mostly staying away from lyra for a lot of her childhood was in fact the best thing they could've done for her. good job team. that is not the thing to regret here

[irmavep11]

some random carol studies

[shitmystudentswrite]

Taxidermy

I know that “stuffed my face” is an idiom because you can’t really stuff anyone’s face, unless you are a taxidermist. 

[bossbabyjesus]

Lemony Snicket, is that you?

[maaarine]

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Ric Burns, 2019)

[mysweetobsessionwithwords]

“I do not (at least consciously) have a steady sense of life’s meaning. I keep losing it, and having to re-achieve it, again and again. I can only re-achieve (or “remember”) it when I am “inspired” by things or events or people, when I get a sense of the immense intricacy and mystery, but also the deep ordering positivity, of Nature and History…

I think “the meaning of life” is something we have to formulate for ourselves, we have to determine what has meaning for us… It clearly has to do with love — what and whom and how one can love.”

- Oliver Sacks

From The Marginalian by Maria Popova

[wallow-titz]

Well... fuck.

From Insomniac City - A book written by Bill Hayes (Oliver Sacks' partner). This is one of their very last real life conversations before Oliver passed away.

[in-love-with-movies]

Awakenings (1990)

[beatofmyheart]

[emahriel]

drink deep — x

[tidal-pine]

"I'm not immune to the sincerity below me Makes me feel, it makes me holy, but through tears I understand That I do not belong No, I do not belong"

[katkit-42]

I usually hate the "pretty girl, ugly/beastly guy" trope so shout out to Silent Hill f for having Kotoyuki being a pretty boy bishounen while Hinako becomes a 9 foot tall demon woman with huge muscly arms and gore for a face.

[aqours]

play silent hill f to make him even angrier

[gigik33]

the sister of all sisters

[meeloistrying]

Renoir and his Hidden star 🌟

Here's another painted piece for Renoir and Alicia this time. Their relationship hit very close to home and the game is filled with various types of relationships. It was very therapeutic for me in a way.

the Reacher quest quickly became my favorite for this exact reason. And the journal entries where Renoir talks about his children are very precious to me.