curious inspirations

[enchantedbook]

"Offering" by Ulla Thynell

[snaillesnaille]

wild horses running

[exhaled-spirals]

“A book is a piece of silence between the reader’s hands. The person who writes it is quiet. The person who reads it doesn’t break the silence.”

— Pascal Quignard, Petits traités

[seiitchi]

[nemfrog]

Les ancêtres de Maigriou. Scrawny's ancestors. Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. 1884.

Gallica

[grozat]

birthday gift for my bf of his ttrpg character, Kurt <3

[seiitchi]

[robertfagden]

actually im doing really well except for the fact that everything makes me sad and the things that dont make me sad make me angry. but other than that im fine

[nemfrog]

Florida today. 1950.

[nemfrog]

Original illustrations of the mammalian eye by George Lindsay Johnson and Arthur William Head. 1901.

The eyes of four breeds of dog painted in watercolor by a scientist.

Internet Archive

[holespoles]

Haruka Kawakami

かわかみはるか

[lilaccatholic]

Oh to be eleven years old and finding a life-changing obscure paperback in the library

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[aemperatrix]

FURUYA KŌRIN from Shasei Sōka Moyō 1907

[spiritbladed]

something something extremely sexy when magic users resort to physical violence. yeah i have the power of god and anime on my side but i also have THESE HANDS. i cast Punch You In The Face. i take my magic staff through which i channel the vast energies of the elements and the cosmos and i cast Severe Concussion And Skull Fracture. casting time for xenoglossy too long, chose the quicker route of Stab You In The Throat.

[andhumanslovedstories]

There’s an emotion only unlocked when you live in a house with multiple stories. I call it “the stair emotion” and it’s when you realize the object you need is on the other side of yet another trip up and down those goddamn stairs. It’s the closest I get to transcending the desire for material goods. Maybe I don’t need that notebook. Maybe I don’t need anything.

[havingapoemwithyou]

Advice from a caterpillar by Amy Gerstler