My Addictions

33. Switzerland. Reader. Writer. Literature student. Music lover. Caffeine addict. This blog is filled with random bits of life that caught my eye. AO3: Glenraven Icon by @haibiscuits

[redlipstickresurrected]

Vorja Sánchez (Spanish, based Barcelona, Spain) - Interventions series, Photography, Photo Drawings

[pmamtraveller]

"Fat Tiger" by "Uncle Bum" (不二馬大叔).

[rosavaya]

“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

[anarchistmemedistro]

[mentalhealthmemesofficial]

[notthegrouch]

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” 

- Vincent van Gogh

[ingravinoveritas]

"We've all got to be fighting that fight every day."

Happy Pride, everyone...

[a-queer-little-wombat]

The shirt was created by Stevie Bees. You can find it (and their other designs) here:

https://steviesafespaces.com/you-will-have-to-go-through-me-tee

[xanthumn]

You Will Have To Go Through Me Tee | David Tennant's Shirt | Stevies Safe Space

You Will have To Go Through Me Tee | As an ally, you understand the importance of standing up for marginalized communities. This tee is the

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[have-you-been-here]

Anywhere along Meguro river, Tokyo, Japan

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Remaining time: 2 days 1 hour

[yayxstitch]

[yayxstitch]

I took some of your many suggestions and made it better.

[gaycatastrophe]

[yayxstitch]

You right you right

[ryann-44]

[bsd-bibliophile]

I am already fed up with Bach and Mozart, and completely fed up with that happy, easy-going jazz. I am living like an iron bridge under a cloudy sky after rain. I am pressed by things forever desolate.

I am not completely quiet in the midst of that desolation. I am seeking something, always seeking something in the midst of this terrible immobility, but also terribly impatient. For the sake of this, my appetites and lusts are as nothing.

- Nakahara Chūya, “The Voice of Life” from The Poems of Nakahara Chūya

[renthony]

I see so many arguments over what is and isn't "good queer representation" that really just boil down to "y'all are actually arguing over matters of taste and genre preference, which is incredibly subjective and personal."

Worldbuilding where being queer is normalized and queerphobia has no impact on the plot? THAT'S FINE. Worldbuilding that includes queerphobia and tackles the effects of it as part of the story? THAT'S ALSO FINE.

Low-stakes queer romcom where the characters are fluffy and cute? THAT'S COOL. Messy queer drama with toxic people who fuck each other over and clash repeatedly? THAT'S ALSO COOL.

Stories that center the characters' queerness, show a trans character's transition, and are about the queerness as much as the rest of the plot? AWESOME. Stories where the characters' queerness isn't treated as a big deal, and have trans characters whose transition happened before the story entirely? ALSO AWESOME.

You may PREFER one thing or another, but it is actually good to have all these things. It's about variety. It's about queer characters being allowed to exist without censorship. It's about queer artists getting to make things without being told we're a "niche issue" or "adult content." It's about having as many goddamn cakes as the bakery can produce.

At the end of the day, I'd prefer a media landscape with fifty pieces of problematic queer representation over a media landscape with one single piece of queer representation that's trying (and usually failing) to be 100% perfect for everything and everyone.

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[toocoolforhole]

this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt, but we have got to open the schools again. people genuinely seem to have forgotten that their personal lived experience isn’t indicative of the larger population, AND IF IT IS…… then you need researchers to support these assertions from a relevant data pool instead of a blog post from 2013 💀

[chaoticevilspacewitch]

"Believe women and the marginalized" does not replace the value of empirical data.

[catchymemes]

[1000-life-hacks]

[libraryladyintraining]

You better believe it!

[one-time-i-dreamt]

This is a lot to unpack

[ysociety]

[thoodleoo]

if anyone ever tries to tell you that the ancient greeks were more sophisticated than us, just remember that there was a ship war between plato and aeschylus over whether achilles or patroclus was the top in their relationship, while xenophon was off complaining that he didn’t ship that

[opossumprince]

“Is Achilles A Twink” - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,