Defiant Whimsy

dream hunter; stormcloud heart; inevitably enchanted, for good or ill. here's where I share my arbitrary side, defiant of the inner editor, wayward and eccentric. iku! (By the way, this is a secondary blog, so please pardon the lack of follow-backs!)

[nitewrighter]

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

[birdandmoon]

A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.

[dennydraws]

Art Block

I got an art block and I thought to do something about it. We’re friends now! \o/

[lotus-duckies]

I relate to Horikoshi.

[gummn]

Full Metal Alchemist Full Cast

[stoweboyd]

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (via stoweboyd)

[quietlotus]

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau (via quietlotus)

[quotebook-in]

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Rumi (via quotebook-in)

[quotetherapy]

We are all trapped in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.

Brian Grazer (via quotetherapy)

[spiritual-activism]

Learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.

(via pure-awareness)

[noosphe-re]

It is a very recent disease to mistake the unobserved for the nonexistent; but some are plagued with the worse disease of mistaking the unobserved for the unobservable.

Nassim Taleb (via inthenoosphere)

[iloveyoursoul]

[stagecoachjessi]

Classic Hollywood Bloopers

[izzzzzzieeeeeeeee]

And the greatest Hollywood blooper of all time:

[mermaidsandcats29]

These are WONDERFUL

[stagecoachjessi]

Two more of my favorites:

[enrique262]

Underwater nuclear reactor test, where Cherenkov radiation is the result of the experiment.   

[ayellowbirds]

A nice reminder that, contrary to the sickly green you usually see in fiction, glowy radiation is usually a lovely blue. But what’s happening? Well, something’s going faster than light! I’m not a physicist, so i might be getting some details wrong, but this is as far as i understand it:

See, the speed of light is a universal constant, the c of e=mc². But that’s only in a vacuum—so much of physics is based first and foremost on activity in a vacuum—and the speed of light through matter is often significantly slower. Instead of 1 c, light moves through liquid water at about 0.75 c. That may still be ludicrously fast, but it’s still slowed down enough that charged particles like electrons can exceed that speed within the medium in question. Exceeding that speed does all kinds of weird, somewhat terrifying and very exciting things to the electromagnetic field of the medium, including the creation of a shockwave in a manner very similar to a sonic boom.

In other words, that bright blue visible radiation is what happens when a particle exceeds the speed-of-light-in-water and creates a luminal boom.

[robotlyra]

Oh. So THAT’S what my favorite color is

[lady-edith-and-the-footman]

I ship Thomas/brownies.

[defiantwhimsy]

Cookies, truffles ... What doesn't the Dark Side have?

[defiantwhimsy]

*light shines down from the heavens* *choirs of angels, dragons, and neutrals cast as antagonists flit about in a brilliantly starry sky*

[unacorn]

Sita in my Link cosplay c: 

@hyruleintwilight