look at you, you made it out!!!

23, she /her (profile picture by potato-lord-but-not), lighthouse fan!! Podcast Enjoyer™, Denglisches Disaster, Occasionally posting art :) Gwen Bouchard apologist<3

[darkacademiaarchivist]

✨you're more than stained glass, you're the light that comes through✨ (the most Cassandra coded song ever)

(for @sparkbirdmusic 's art contest!!!)

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Round 2 Part 1

Arthur Lester (Malevolent)

Goncharov (Goncharov)

Remaining time: 6 days 4 hours

Art of Arthur Lester by @bohemobones on instagram

[darkacademiaarchivist]

YOU WERE RIGHT. DELTARUNE TOMORROW!!!!!!

HAH!!! CONCGRATS

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

NO WAY

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

I’ve been doxxed 😨

[thetetra]

I once worked on a phone campaign to disallow the trees around your crater from being cut down...

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

I am deeply deeply in love with you 💙 Thanks so much for your conservation effort!

It’s the small things we all do together that can make a big difference! 💙💙💙💙 And you’ve done it!!!

[pacificnorthwesterngothic]

People just gotta know what Crater Lake and Wizard Island looks like

[silent-calling]

What in the Skyrim

[jenroses]

been there several times. And yeah, Skyrim feels super duper Oregon in a lot of ways.

[fitzreiley]

We gonna talk about Crater Lake, and Wizard Island and not mention the Old Man of the Lake?

The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It's roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first 'offically' recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.

The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.

So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange'? Let's get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that's strange.

So now let's get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it'd be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes...again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.

As a kid, I spent my summers with my family who lives like... 40 some odd miles from Crater Lake National Park so I had this knowledge just kinda buried in my head somewhere.

[bogleech]

I excitedly added a thing about the old man before I checked the notes so now I'm gonna reblog this great story instead but here is the old man!!!

"The Old Man floats vertically through the lake on a calm day"

"THE OLD MAN FLOATS. VERTICALLY. THROUGH THE LAKE ON A CALM DAY"

!!!!!!!!!!

[headspace-hotel]

Finally

Cryptobotany

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Old Man of the Lake floats! On a calm day!🎵

[pacificnorthwesterngothic]

This post really has everything. But, most importantly, it’s got Crater Lake and Wizard Island appreciation.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

[digitalsymbiote]

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

[mikonez]

congratulations on the deltarune i think

if its not I'm gonna look so stupid caro

[darkacademiaarchivist]

HOPING FOR THE BEST!!!

[rimonoroni2]

first cryptid you ever run into as a little kid is called Best Friends Older Brother

[suspiciouspurplelemon]

my first and probably only PHM fanart

[keficafe]

Im.. Soft 🥺🥺🥺

cr. 

[wholesomepostarchive]

12/22/2023

[darkacademiaarchivist]

its honestly homophobic that all my favourite artists are announcing tours at the same time because I can't go to ALL OF THEM

[darkacademiaarchivist]

I wish Phoebe Bridgers would have annonced this like a month later when i'll have a job again AND toured europe in 2027 not IN DECEMBER WHEN I'LL BE WRITING MY BACHELOR THESIS AND AM ALREADY SEEING NOAH KAHAN AND CANT TRAVEL HALF WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY :((

[darkacademiaarchivist]

i so support phone free concerts in theory but why the Phoebe Bridgers tour I CAN'T GO ONNNN let me experience it through instagram at least :((

[wildragon]

I wonder how a baby mothman could be called; a mothchild? a mothmanlet?

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[ominous-signs]

Every time I pass by this sign Im intrigued by it, and worried for tim.

[bug-maniac]

@vague-magnus-archives

[sunbeetle]

friend group in their 20s

friend 1: just folded laundry for 3 hours 😊

friend 2: i think my stomach wall is eroding guys idk what to do

friend 3: have u seen a doctor yet???

friend 2: well nooo...

friend 4: someone is at my door 😰

friend 1: just cleaned the sinks and toilets 😍

friend 2: no really the light is fading from my eyes

friend 4: a tree fell on my neighbor

you: just got off work is anybody free

[a hot, silent wind blows]

[lmaonade]

society collapsed the moment we let any single beverage cost more than $5

[laterkiss]

i have [gestures vaguely] my tendencies

[translatingpoststogerman]

spätererkuss

ich habe [gestikuliert vage] meine tendenzen