half agony, half hope

please don't hesitate to drop me a line; i assure you i am a very alive, normal, living human being, who will not bite and i am also alive

[petaltexturedskies]

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

[tlirsgender]

I think it's cute when depictions of our solar system include earth's moon. Like yeah sure the moon's invited. We just like her

[tlirsgender]

Like simplified models that don't have Literally Everything just the planets. And our moon #OurMoon

[groovyfran-png]

"Do you insert yourself as the top/bottom of your favorite ship?" No, I'm the cameraman

[catchymemes]

[tr-shb-g]

*this meeting could have been an email voice* this cgi could have been a puppet

[world-beauty]

Messier Marathon

Credits: P. Gitto

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here and here .

[booksbrackenbooze]

You can also borrow some of Tanith Lee’s books from the Internet Archive if you are unable to buy them.

Here’s a link to Night’s Master, the first book in the Flat Earth series.

I cannot recommend Lee’s work enough. And it pains me that I’d never even heard of her until last year.

[i-am-a-fish]

just wanted to say that you are cute and the fog is not coming. you are beautiful and you really do not have to worry about the fog because it's not coming. The fog wouldn't even be a problem if it was coming, it isn't though, and you are very pretty

[vinceaddams]

"Stained glass" faille jacket by Freda Blackwood, 1970's or early 80's, via Kerry Taylor Auctions.

[yesornopolls]

have you been on tumblr for half your life or more? (ex. if you joined tumblr at 15 and are now 30 or older, you’ve been on tumblr for half your life)

Have you been on tumblr for half your life or more?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMar 12

[untitledthespian]

“I love you”

- Boring

- Overdone

- No nuance

“I have a duty of care”

- Mysterious

- Lets them know just enough

- Shows that spending four and a half billion years in a torture chamber fighting for them is nothing to you and you’d do it again in a heartbeat

[witchofthemidlands]

oh this is so sad 😭 this one i saw the announcement for but did not believe it at all so had to look it up but it is devastatingly true. an absolute legend has passed away. i am so grateful for catherine o'hara's art, her characters have made me laugh so many times, i may not have experienced home alone but i particularly loved her work in the beetlejuice duology and schitt's creek. it was my love for sally from the nightmare before christmas that made me want to perform, the first song i ever sang to an audience as a singer was sally's song and sally is and will always be one of my favourite animated characters of all time. i am an avid player of the dreamlight valley game and catherine o'hara returned to her role of sally to voice her character. her work was absolutely incredible.

thank you, catherine o'hara.

[lunamonchtuna]

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 (via lunamonchtuna)

[cutecipher]

a who has died today after triggering a previously undetonated grinch mine

[g0ldf1shb0wl]

the duffers decided they didn’t want to hide jamie campbell bower in the vecna makeup all season so they put him in a slutty little brown suit, the twinkiest glasses ive ever seen, told him to smile, and then gave him an entire barbie dreamhouse to be offputting and handsome in 24/7

[slashergirlnancy]

everybody hating on her like ooouu god forbid you get a lil suicidal after being tortured by the government

[cogentranting]

Nancy and Steve are back together in time for the 90's heyday of Austen adaptations and Nancy gets Steve to watch all of them with her (because Nancy is totally an Austen girl). And Steve actually really enjoys them because he's a romantic and because upper class snobbery and thinly veiled insults and all that stuff is very familiar to him (half-way through Pride and Prejudice he points at Caroline Bingley and says "that's Carol Perkins"). (He IS fundamentally incapable of keeping any of the names straight and after the fact does mix up the plots of the various movies. But he likes them and has favorites.) And when they watch Persuasion in 1995 on a date both Nancy and Steve cry.

[thelonelybrilliance]

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

(Genderswapped Persuasion couple that they are)

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