Blossoming Queen of Thorns

“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.” - Caitlyn Siehl

[exposenature]

[hellboundhorrormovielover]

utterly obsessed with this midsommar review

[worldnnatureexplorer]

Time Lapse Of Sky Over Mountain

[systlin]

If tomorrow I won the lottery or some elderly billionare relative died and left me their fortune and I had a massive pile of cash, I would immediately buy a lot someplace more habitable and then build a next level Art Nouveau castle.

I see billionaire mansions or luxury houses and they're all so fucking boring. What's even the point. You have all this money and everything is white and looks like a dentist's office waiting room? The fuck is wrong with you. Install a two story stained glass window. Live a little.

[systlin]

If you could just pay skilled people to build you this but you have sterile white and gray everything you're doing it wrong.

[catasters]

[prokopetz]

Consider:

Victorian England: 1837-1901

American Old West: 1803-1912

Meiji Restoration: 1868-1912

French privateering in the Gulf of Mexico: ended circa 1830

Conclusion: an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible.

[medievalpoc]

It really just comes down to whether a given individual or group is looking for reasons to include, or reasons to exclude. Hypothetical groups like these can go a lot further than this, too.

[spader7]

OK I WANT THIS REALLY BAD SO I MADE THIS REALLY QUICK

[invisiblemelonmoose]

As much as I absolutely adore this, you’d probably have to come up with a fairly good reason for them to all meet up together in the first place. I mean, MLK and Anne Frank were born in the same year, but they lived on different continents and had no opportunity to meet. I’m not saying these cross cultural interactions are impossible, but choosing a certain region with an era isn’t necessarily exclusionary. It just doesn’t occur to people (or rather most writers in general) how well these eras matched up or how to connect these extremely varied backgrounds.

just make it a fighting game and ur good tho

[prokopetz]

I didn’t pick those roles at random, mind. All four of them are outlaws of some description, and thus have incentive to travel outside their native range - and in particular, all four of them would have any number of plausible excuses for ending up in San Francisco during the late 1860s or early 1870s. Once you’ve got them within shouting distance of each other, getting them in the same adventuring party is a simple matter of Plot.

[invisiblemelonmoose]

I feel dumb for not picking up on that. :B I’d definitely be curious to know just what kind of hijinx they’d be getting themselves into (I can already imagine an Ocean’s Eleven-esque heist).

Out of curiosity, why San Fran? I’m a west coaster myself, but I usually picture New York when it comes to historical fiction.

[prokopetz]

1. San Francisco in the early 1870s is both very prosperous and a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

2. It’s more plausible for a vaquero and a ronin samurai to meet there by chance - New York is on the wrong coast entirely for that.

3. Emperor Norton.

[terriwriting]

A gentleman thief, a gunslinger, a fugitive ronin, and an elderly pirate all walk into a San Francisco saloon. The Emperor of the United States is there.

[nightdepthss]

[virtualcremefem]

∆∆∆

[lurker-no-more]

Felt this down to my soul.

[mountainbaby25]

The mountain and the moon 🏔️🌖

[enchantedbook]

'The Swan Maiden' from 'Among Gnomes and Trolls' by John Bauer, 1908.

[eflatminorseven]

thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)

like yeah thats how it feels. thats what it feels like to exist sometimes. he gets it

[teddy2145]

Also very big! Takes up two stories!

[nightmare-from-heaven]

Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out.

If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff.

Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else.

That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag.

Give your brain a Daily Dose Of De-Frag.

[fttitv]

Paying my bills like the big girl that I am⛹🏻‍♂️🤾🏻‍♂️⛹🏻‍♂️🤾🏻‍♂️

[vincaris]

finally finished this painting i sketched out months ago… please click for better quality i know tumblr is gonna kill it (reference used)

[not-so-innocent-bi-sander]

Oh my god this is a painting

[heir-of-the-founders]

Guys its a painting

[freshbaked-bread]

GUYS THIS IS A PAINTING

[shadowrabbit3593]

Me: This is not a painting at all I don’t believe it even though everyone is saying it and the artist themselves said it

*clicks for better quality and zooms in*

Oh my goodness this is a painting

[vic-11037]

a painting you say???

[the-identifier]

painting identjfi

[corrodedparadox]

It’s not too late to turn back

[spicy-vaginal-tacos]

daily fucking reminder that you are allowed to want attention and that does not make you a bad person.

in case no one’s told you in a while. you are valid.

[whydousernamesevenexist]

hey babe are you okay you reblogged the daily fucking reminder that you are allowed to want attention and that does not make you a bad person. several times