dugrival

[baby-harpseal]

maybe the real northwest passage was the friends we ate along the way

[dugrival]

Too soon

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[sabertoothwalrus]

[thatdisasterauthor]

Somehow this video captures the scale of whales better than any other video or photo I have ever seen.

[memewhore]

[everythingfox]

“My kitten puts his paws in the air when you stop petting his belly and it’s too cute to handle!”

(Source)

[birdblinder]

me, looking at the current state of the world, crying:I wish none of this had happened…

Gandalf, materialising in my conscience, smiling kindly: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, besides the will of evil.

[geekinglikeaboss]

This is wonderfully helpful.

[rush-keating-deactivated2018121]

There’s also Sam: “It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.”

[dovewithscales]

What are we holding onto Sam?

[gh0sthoodie]

There’s good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Playing Card, Queen of Spades.

Artist: E. Le Tellier; Printer: Belin; Manufacturer: B.P. Grimaud

Date: late 19th century 

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

every word out of guillermo del toro’s mouth is the most hardcore thing i’ve ever heard and he says it all so casually like he doesn’t even realize how much of a gothic visionary he is 

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

“Since childhood, I’ve been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing”

I STILL THINK ABOUT THIS EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE

[valtsv]

oh to be a slightly ridiculous looking sea monster on a geographically inaccurate medieval map

[1000drawings]

[stilesisbiles]

Tis the season

[mosevelsor]

[philamuseum]

Born on this day in 1882, N. C. Wyeth was one of America’s greatest illustrators. Here he sets the scene for the Jules Verne adventure novel “The Mysterious Island” with this title page illustration. Inhabiting the viewpoint of the main characters as they drop closer to the churning waves from a damaged air balloon, the island appears tantalizingly close and yet dangerously far. 

 “’The Mysterious Island’ title page illustration,” 1918, by N. C. Wyeth 

[art-mysecondname]

Vincent van Gogh - Four Swifts with Landscape Sketches

[allieinarden]

Brideshead Reloaded

[claminosity]

#HE’S BACK. #AND THIS TIME HE’S CATHOLIC. (via harrietvane)

[animusrox]

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) dir. James Cameron

[dugrival]

Achilles: I can't have been that drunk last night.

Odysseus: You were flirting with Patroclus.

Achilles: So what? He's my boyfriend.

Odysseus: You asked if he was single

Odysseus: And cried when he said he wasn't

[piecesolvingapuzzle-deactivated]

Y’all don’t want that pretty girl to stomp on you, you want a long and drawn out sword fight with flirty banter. Quit saying you want her to hit you with a truck, you want her to do The Thing where she gently lifts your chin with her sword while your heart pounds out of your chest and at the end when she has you pinned against the wall with her blade to your throat, you want a heartrending confession with hissed declarations of your undying affection and for her to finally throw her weapon to the side and pull you into a passionate yet tender kiss. Stop lying.