the ol' razzle dazzle

eldritch cryptid // she/her

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[samcormac]

what’s the rush?

[weirwoodsugar]

i love when fantasy novels are about 35 year olds…why is everyone in books 20 or 16 all the time

[weirwoodsugar]

(defensively) 35 is one of the most normal ages to be

[oldpaintings]

Eva Gonzalès  (French, 1849–1883)

[gnocchioli]

Imagine all the things I could do if I just did them.

[fellshish]

@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?

[sherl-grey]

actually writing the fic down

[ashstfu]

reading a good interesting book after a horrible reading slump and suddenly you can feel the sun shining again and the sky is more beautiful than ever and birds are all singing songs to you

[seven-winged-liar]

hearing a beloved friend say the words 'can i be mean for a sec' is like watching an angel descend from the heavens and kiss you on the forehead

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Thou wouldst not downloadeth a car

[suigintou]

wikipedia editors are like if redditors were monks

[brucemanimean-batwayne]

every time it rains i have the urge to say “well our plan to stand alone in a field with a metal rod is out” which no one ever recognizes is from phineas and ferb but usually kills anyway

[dailycatsblog]

[pies-in-the-skies]

me: truly a well crafted tragedy is such a bittersweet pleasure to take in and serves a purpose, not just as a sad story but as a reminder that even that which ends badly might not have happened in vain or for nothing. The love, the grief, the actions still meant something simply for having taken place and for us partaking in it.

me when said tragedy is about to actually unfold, sweating: ok but consider this. i dont want this to happen

[raisinchallah]

when creative partnerships are more intimate than a marriage and the break up is worse than a divorce

[zetarays]

#fleetwood mac

[n-award]

loving this wording

[importantanimalstories]

This is a meteorite that has fallen from a clearly superior part of the galaxy.

[soundcarvings]

I try to limit the extent to which I ask for things that hide some deeper desire. for example, I don't send someone a photo that made me think of them if I actually just want to ask how they are doing. I think testing the space between you and another person is a great thing to do, but only when you are aware that you are doing it. When I am honest with myself only then can I be honest with you. If I want to see someone but it feels awkward to ask, I will also just say it feels awkward but this is my desire. it's a lesson in sincerity.