vein of stars

[maggotmuncher0]

shells🐚

[aliasalias]

when i grow up i wanna be a dandelion

[dvrknessabides]

Portland Oregon, spring 2024

[m14a]

scan 17

[blearybee]

am i gonna have to start posting on tumblr again now that peach is dead??? hello????

[saranilssonbooks]

A bit of Moby-Dick oceanography context:

Up until the mid 1870s, it was generally accepted that life could not exist below a depth of 550 meters. This is why some of Ishmael's whale theories are so off and why Ahab pictures the sea floor as a vast wasteland of bones and shipwrecks. 🌊

[plaguedocboi]

I mean. Can you blame them

[plaguedocboi]

Oh here it is!!!! The most unsettling thing Ahab/Ishmael might’ve believed about the deep sea

[gougeddoll]

jennifer cantwell, 2011

[seriial]

“the recording is of a blackbird in my garden in the north of scotland. the idea of the piece is that it's a letter home from a migrated bird, telling the family of its new life and making the connection between the migrant and the homeland.” - jennifer cantwell

[piggygirlavenue]

Photos of Kermit and Piggy where they look extra butchfemme

[stars-bean]

Alien (1979) dir. Ridley Scott

[hoziernatural]

i got that dog in me

[taylornprice]

backyard dandelions in the sketchbook

[gobloggirl]

[holyviolence]

(RE)WATCHED IN 2023: —Why are you killing everybody? Why are you making everybody die? —It's my story. —Mine too.

THE FALL (2006) DIR. TARSEM SINGH

[dearparentheses]

Paul Evans

[hercorrupterofwords]

it's cold outside pass me the pieter bruegel the elder

[hercorrupterofwords]

yeahg

[petaltexturedskies]

Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. It's all about taking in as much of what's out there as you can, and not letting the excuses and the dreariness of some of the obligations you'll soon be incurring narrow your lives. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

from Susan Sontag's 2003 commencement speech at Vassar

[homoquartz]

i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.

as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”

small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.

i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.

[piratedgender]