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[hauntedchronicler]

the mutuals are getting mythological about the trials of modern life tonight on tumblr dot com

[thehmn]

In Copenhagen you can visit The Round Tower. It used to be an astronomical observatory until light pollution and the vibrations from increased traffic in the streets made it useless for its original purpose.

Today it’s mostly famous for what it looks like on the inside.

It has an equestrian staircase though it’s so smooth it’s really just a gentle slope more than a staircase. It was build like that so our lazy bum king could ride his horse all the way to the top (king not in photo)

And naturally people have also driven cars up the tower

And held a bike race

For a while it was just sort of abandoned by the authorities and became a spiraling marketplace

But today it has been restored and become a tourist spot as well as a popular destination for school trips. And yes, you can still watch the cosmos at the top.

[butterflypeaflowertea]

trees are very 🥺 because sometimes i’ll stand under the shade of a tree and look up at it and it’ll sway its branches about in the wind and i’m like oh my God i’m alive and YOU’RE alive. we are alive together and made up of the same starry stuff and standing right next to each other in this moment on this earth. do u feel it when i reach out and press my hand to your trunk? can you hear me? i think you’re so neat. and then the sunlight filters through its leaves just so and that lovely green color leaves me dazzled. it’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

[tombware]

went on a walk and spent five minutes meowing at this random cat until i realized the owner was standing right there in his yard

[angelicdewdrop]

[humanoidhistory]

Total eclipse of the Sun, July 1860, illustrated by astronomer Warren de la Rue.

[calamitys-child]

I always say that the thing which sets Sargent apart as a portrait artist is that he draws/paints literally every subject - no matter their gender, social position, life vs representational drawing etc - like he is right that minute realising he's desperately in love with them. And it rules every single time.

[calamitys-child]

Examples pulled just from his Wikipedia page most popular works. Absolutely devastating scenes for bisexuals for over a century

[shorthistorian]

Don't forget the ALLIGATORS. He loves them too.

[frostedmagnolias]

Mourning Brooch

c. 1880

brass, hair, glass

Probably Australian

Powerhouse Collection

[mimicofmodes]

Always worth pointing out that THIS is what mourning hair jewelry generally looks like. The sculptural woven beads and chains can have been made in memoriam, but were widely available ready-made from stores or made at home from commercially purchased hair. Brooches with hair that's been basket-woven or braided and placed under glass are much, much more likely to represent a memorial piece. So be wary of family provenances attached to hair necklaces and earrings!

[gnetophyte]

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

CALLOUT POST FOR FUCKING EURIPIDES

[deadpanwalking]

[notallmensheviks]

did classical athens do something problematic

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

I so desperately wish I could physically stop you fucking people from using the internet.

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

That said, has the answer to the question “did classical Athens do something problematic” ever, in all its history and all subsequent discussion, been “no?”

[amysnotdeadyet]

Not to me. Not if it’s classical Athens.

[pollen]

Mary Oliver, from "Such Singing in the Wild Branches"

[aidashakur]

[feyburner]

I love when you start reading a classic and you’re prepared for there to be a bit of an adjustment period while you get used to the style or get to the part that truly hooks you or whatever and then 2 pages in it’s like BITCH! That’s right! There’s a reason people have been obsessed with this for centuries! My bad!!!!! Truly sorry!!!!!! Let’s fucking go!!!!!!!

[akindplace]

do you guys remember when we googled something and we would get results that were actually related to the things we searched

[delphinidin4]

[aristocrating]

its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.

[insomaniackills]

Folks really need to reacquaint themselves with this concept

[artemideaddams]

“know no shame” is about Flint’s sexual orientation and love for Thomas, sure, but in the context of the 2.09 dialogue between him and Miranda… it’s also about him preaching about pirates not being the monsters civilization label them to be since season 1 episode 1, and then revealing to his closest partner/dead bf’s wife/mistress that every day he has worn the name he has chosen for himself as a pirate, he has been ashamed of it and horrified of who he was becoming, and has always secretely wished to come back to a quiet anonymous (far from shame) life that it is now possible only by coming back to civilization. (But civilization has labelled him a monster way before he was a pirate trying to make him feel shame for who he was, and by the anger toward this rejection and shame forced upon him Captain Flint was born, this thing he is horrified and ashamed of NOW, and the only solution to end THIS shame he felt for himself and his violence is coming back to make a pact with the society that made him violent in the first place, so it’s a circle that will never ends.)

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

something about how Flint and Eleanor have reversed character arcs

where James starts out conforming to civilisation until England kills that part of him and his vengeful ghost becomes a pirate in Nassau

vs how Eleanor starts out as a pirate until England kills that part of her and her vengeful ghost conforms to civilisation in Nassau