glass flowers

[echolocalist]

Glass Flowers by father-son duo Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka.

The two artisans made 4,300 glass models of nearly 800 plant species between 1886 through 1936. They were originally created as teaching tools for botanists.

[redrosesinblue]

[tuxankhamun]

sorry kids daddy lost all his money betting on rhinoceros beetle fights again there won't be a christmas this year

[bester-jester]

good news babies, momma just cleared some chump of everything. Two christmases this year. God i love beetles fighting

[terkaterr]

ah doing ma thing just like god int- (remembers im atheist) just like the universe intend- (remembers i don't believe in determinism) just like noone and nothing intended ever. doin ma thang fucking unpredictable style

[thepenguinpress]

Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969.

[lonesomedovepdf]

“[March 21 1951]

Student explaining to me (after getting 55) that when reading a novel (’Ulysses’ in this case) he likes to skip ‘passages and pages’ so as ‘to get his own idea, you know, about the book and not be influenced by the author’.”

[fuzzygifs]

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[keikomivra]

JURASSIC PARK (1993) Dir. Steven Spielberg

[doglike]

[guerrillatech]

[lemoncat101]

[datura-inoxia]

Nature is healing

[believesinpatterns]

a woman holding her boob should be considered a neutral pensive gesture like when a man scratches his beard

[zendeyas]

Zendaya wearing MATIERES – New York premiere of The Odyssey

[kingcatnine]

the bisexuality was there. it didnt change anything. it didn't save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the bisexuality was there

[skopostheorie]

Once I "made" a custom emoji for my mum by crudely drawing a hijab on it and now whenever she wants me to buy a coffee for her I get a text like this

[cnmcn]

absolutley enchanted by cobepee

[medievaljournalist]

[pangur-and-grim]

in a moment, everything can change

[pangur-and-grim]

reading with my creatures

[pangur-and-grim]

[notahorseindisguise]

did you know that if you turn the word racecar around the other way you can spank it on its little ass