Daffodil Thief. Flower Socialist.

[daffodilthief]

[madsrecovers]

[yeahponcho]

please excuse my grandpa in the background but here’s poncho enjoying her thanksgiving superworms

[mineapple]

i will NOT excuse your grandpa he is INTEGRAL to my enjoyment of this video

[daffodilthief]

I feel like we all need someone in our lives to remind us that we are good dragons.

[daffodilthief]

Christmas lighting celebration at the Arkansas State Capitol Building

[nitro502]

If season three of Stranger Things doesn’t open with the kids playing D&D with a very confused yet enthusiastic Steve then what is even the point

[yesterdaysprint]

The Leavenworth Post, Kansas, June 9, 1918

[daffodilthief]

Bluebonnets in Fort Worth, TX, March 2016

[daffodilthief]

Painted Desert National Park, March 2016

[daffodilthief]

Bright Angel Trail @ The Grand Canyon, March 2016

[tofixtheshadows]

*shakes fantasy authors by the shoulders* You have magic! You have other worlds! You can do literally anything! Stop writing about bland white people oppressing other bland white people for their ability to shoot multicolored sparklers out of their fingers! Where are my black-skinned dragon riders? Where are my alternate magical philosophies between cultures? Where are my stories about indigenous civilizations using magic to fight off would-be colonizers? Where are my mathemagicians? Why are you like this?! 

[shwetanarayan-deactivated202504]

Please tell editors and publishers this too. Loudly.

Cause I know of an awful lot of amazing, diverse fantasy that won’t see publication, and it’s heartbreaking.

[misswallflower]

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” (via misswallflower)

[daffodilthief]

A Poem I Wrote During a Downswing (And Recently Rediscovered)

Seeds require different grounds Full sun Half sun No sun No son, mommy can’t play with you right now She knows she loves but she doesn’t know how to show you Show me That this won’t be the life of my child, A child preconceived by inconceivable right now I’m not a wife. That’s not a life I can live until I fix this drought within my bones This fog that leaves me muddy-minded and spiritually dry, An emotional mummy With no right to bring life from cracked, broken ground. Please nurture me. Please see that the nourishment I need is different from yours. I need more water to quench the thirst that burns in my throat, exhausted from holding in cries for help.

No sun Half sun Full sun Oh son,  So far in my future, so close in my heart, I pray that the shadow over me doesn’t keep us apart.

[swingsetindecember]

where a grad student becomes a supervillain for extra credit since their doctoral committee is lowkey three of the city’s supervillains. and they meet the hero who is cute and charming and idealistic. and damn, extra credit is so not worth this. but damn, grad school is expensive and the job market is competitive 

“there’s good in you”

“i really think all that’s in me at this point is ramen, red bull and spite”

[jhameia]

I WOULD BUY THIS NOVEL

[daffodilthief]

“You don’t have to do this. You don’t have to rob this bank.” “My loan payment plan says that I do.”

[bofransson]

[uyamt]

水仙（すいせん） Narcissus (Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis)

[expressions-of-nature]

by Prinz Wilbert

Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

[thexfiles]

“What I didn’t realize, back when I was this twenty-five-year-old pinup for geeks in that me myself and iconic metal bikini, was that I had signed an invisible contract to stay looking the exact same way for the next thirty to forty years. Well, clearly I’ve broken that contract. Partly because, in an effort to keep up my disguise as a human being, I had a child at some point. And then, in an effort to stay sane for said child, I took pounds and pounds of medications that have the dual effect of causing water retention (think ocean, not lake) while also creating a craving for salad — chocolate salad. So yes, in answer to your unexpressed question, sanity does turn out to come at a heavy price.” — Carrie Fisher