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My name is Alden and I write stuff, rant at length about whatever book I’m reading and get way, way too into The Witcher. Asks and DMs are always open!

[dandelions-and-white-wolves]

The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot. - E.M Cioran

[poodleshrapnel]

Chades drugs and bombs arc in the tawny man trilogy has had me on the edge of my seat

[dandelions-and-white-wolves]

I’m watching True Detective for the first time and they truly did just make Ligotti a character, didn’t they?

[gewhanaa]

👻 Hallozine Contributor Apps OPEN 👻

Hi folks! Contributor apps for Baldur's Gate: A Hallo-zine Special are now open.

The zine will have two sections: Trick for horror-focused content and Treat for tamer Halloween fun. Each section has its own application, and we are looking for artists, virtual photographers, and writers. Previous zine experience is not required!

Carrd

Trick Contributor Application

Treat Contributor Application

[thevintageducky]

Introducing cats

[anniethecat]

I wanna be the weird lady who lives in a small house and grows lavender and wears sundresses with straw hats and always has a book to recommend

[slutstarlet]

[natalieironside]

If you were a bookish kid then you probably spent at least one year locked in merciless psychological warfare with at least one English teacher you never really got over and someday you're gonna be 90 years old playing checkers on top of a barrel in front of a truck stop or what the fuck ever and somebody's gonna say something foolish and you're gonna think ". . . this is exactly like when that bitch Mrs. So-and-so was wrong about Sophocles"

[0dde11eth]

[alivehouse]

microdosing on piranesi by getting really lost in art museums

[soltwent]

me as hell

[strawberrypirates]

my fluffy piece for anders week day 3!

[roycohn]

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

[figtreeandvine]

I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.

"But!" she said:

People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.

Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.

[dandelions-and-white-wolves]

Maybe if I just keep writing I’ll figure out what the fuck I’m doing somewhere in the middle here 🥲

[koibrianne]

My very first Realm of the Elderlings art created for @winterfest-gift-exchange-v2 ! This gift was based on the prompt of “something soft/fluffy/cuddly” featuring Molly & Bee and Fitz & Bee 🐝 I chose to interpret this as a warm, cozy, sleepy evening in the nursery at Withywoods when Bee was a baby. Best enjoyed while listening to the crackling of a fireplace ☺️

[thoughtkick]

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

[dandelions-and-white-wolves]

People want to talk about ‘old woman crafts’ like it’s a silly tweet thing but like. Listen. I’ve seen someone accidentally impale a good few inches into their leg on the little knitting needles used to make socks. They’re bloody damn sharp. Bigger knitting needles are pretty wicked if you put some force behind them. The awl I use for bookbinding could easily go through a hand. Or an eye, if you’re feeling frisky. Embroidery needles and darning needles are pretty nasty. Stained glass involves fairly toxic chemicals, lead, and heat upwards of 600 degrees Fahrenheit. I wouldn’t fuck with the crafty folks, personally.

[batrachised]

finally, someone for tumblr