Friendly Bleak Expectation Reminders

Hello all! The aim of this blog is to lighten up your life by giving you a few reminders about you favorite Victorian writer and inventor, Pip Bin and of course, all his friends, family, twice-dead-evil-ex-guardians and sundry. Header art is from the...

[itsadnansg]

Been on a bird drawing streak, pretty neat

[theblackparadeisdead]

What's that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like "I wish I've ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern" because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day

[theblackparadeisdead]

Ok I found it it's called "the lesson of the moth by archy" and it's by Don Marquis

[play-now-my-lord]

archy and mehitabel are a treasure, newspaper columnist Don Marquis wrote a lot of these free-verse poems in character as a cockroach named archy (always lowercase because he's a cockroach and can't reach the shift key!!) who was using his typewriter & while it started out as a way of poking gentle fun at the avant-garde poetry of his time (the 1910s - startling how little "avant-garde poetry" has moved forward, isn't it) it evolved over time into some genuinely beautiful and moving poetry

[play-now-my-lord]

ALSO many of them have illustrations by Krazy Kat author George Herriman which are frankly iconic and adorable!!

[thatsbelievable]

Did You Know?

Birds control time! They do this out of spite.

[bleakexpectations]

Ideas for Gently Benevolent valentine cards?

The only one I can think of is ‘I wouldn’t mind being your evil guardian, valentine!’

[degenezijde]

roses are red

violets are blue

eheuheuheu

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[umutlarimfakir]

ig:soonmoo_cat

[bleakexpectations]

Ideas for Gently Benevolent valentine cards?

The only one I can think of is ‘I wouldn’t mind being your evil guardian, valentine!’

[dutchster]

[robynjaja]

This is one of the most adorable comics I’ve ever read

[hungoverandhard-up-blog]

I’ve been waiting for this to pop back up on my dashboard.. we are way too hard on ourselves.

[elevenscupcake]

This is so cute and inspirational I love it

[butterflybabeyy]

this is so cute wtf

[gravityfallsrockz-deactivated20]

The Holy Quadrilogy of cartoon characters voiced by Kristen Schaal 

[extremelycursedimages]

[matcha-eevee]

2018 Lunar Calendar

[taylorrosemakesart]

Details ✍️✨

[setmeatopthepyre]

WELCOME HOME!

I’M AWAKE IN A SCARY WAY!

[sylvia-tilly]

[catchymemes]

2010

2018

[asgardd]

[nobodylikestheotherguy]

CLINT U DONE FUCKED UP

[1dietcokeinacan]

I hate when u say “deja vu” out loud n someone ur with goes “what was it?” Like bitch we all can barely communicate the most straightforward ideas without utter confusion and chaos…..u rly believe it is within my capacity to explain exactly what fleeting moment of temporal embodiment made me feel like a vague reincarnated ghost girl trapped in a child’s dream??? Surely u are mistaken.

[30-minute-memes]

Yesterday/Today

[garrettauthor]

“Jed, please put a more appropriate message on the board tomorrow.”

“…Fine.”