in the dark that nourishes

Welcome to my blog! I am Marlow, 28, they/he. tme. Username/url was formerly fairyofthewilds/mazalmagic * I can’t make this space 100% free of such people, but if I see anyone interacting who is fascist, white/caste supremacist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, anti-Palestine, transphobic, intersexist, ableist, queerphobic/an exclusionists, a swerf, and/or are a person who spreads or supports the opinions of those who spread oppression into the world, you will be blocked and are not welcome here.

[centuriespast]

A miniature book made by Charlotte Brontë at age 13, one of more than two dozen she created. It recently surfaced after being considered lost for more than a century.

Credit…Clark Hodgin for The New York Times

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“I think America should be taken by Canada instead” No, I think America should be returned to its Indigenous tribes, while Canada should return to the First Nations, the Inuit and the Métis.

“I think America should be taken by Denmark instead” No, I think America should be returned to its Indigenous tribes while Denmark returns Greenland to the Kalaallit, the Tunumiit and the Inughuit.

“I think Texas should be taken by Mexico” No, I think Texas should be returned to the Apache.

“I think Florida should be taken by Cuba” No, I think Florida should be returned to the Seminole.

“I think the Blue states should form their own country” No, I think the Blue states should return to the Chinook, the Yakama, the Nimíipuu, the Pomo, the Chumash, the Diné, the Wôbanaki, the Massachuset, the Haudenosaunee, the Pequot, the Lenape tribes, and the Inuit, the Unangax̂ and the Tlingit tribes of Alaska.

Stop roleplaying colonialism with a leftist coat of paint and give land back to its fucking Natives.

[pangeen]

" Earth Veins " // © Bjorn Steinbekk

[neshamama]

nabil anani, "palestinian folklore," 2020, acrylic on canvas

[flickrhorses]

August 26, 2013

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[the-lovely-wounded-deactivated2]

𝔡𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔠𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔩𝔢, 𝔰𝔠𝔬𝔱𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔡 | Pinterest

[abbenai]

insect vases - stephanie young 2014

[sarahs-delights]

Rizal Badar's beautiful fanart for Wicked: For Good.

[morganathewitch]

Following the fairy light deeper into the woods~

[golden-autumn]

[ravaildaverse]

River near Ilda's cottage

[frodo-baggins]

“White flowers are scattered among the well seeded grasses. An idyllic setting at the end of a long hot summer… the figure is reading a book.”

The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | dir. Peter Jackson 

[thenervebible]

CONNIE PANZARINO at a pride march in Boston circa 1990

[ID: Connie is marching along in her sip 'n' puff (SNP) wheelchair. She is wearing a patterned poncho and sporting a green felt party crown on her head. She styles a pair of wire-rimmed glasses with her slicked back hair. She is smiling. Attached to the back of her wheelchair is a large green cardboard poster that reads "Trached Dykes Eat Pussy Without Comin' Up For Air!" followed by a pink upside-down triangle with a stick figure person in a wheelchair at the centre (a symbol for disabled women)].

the cyborg & the crip by Alison Kafer

[ID: “Trached dykes eat pussy without coming up for air.” Connie Panzarino, a longtime disability activist and out lesbian, would attach this sign to her wheelchair during Pride marches in Boston in the early 1990s. Shockingly explicit, her sign refuses to cast technology as cold, distancing, or disembodied/disembodying, presenting it instead as a source and site of embodied pleasure. “Trach” is an abbreviation of tracheotomy, a medical procedure in which a breathing tube is inserted directly into the trachea, bypassing the mouth and nose. Someone with a trach, then, can, in effect, breathe through her throat, freeing her mouth for other activities (another version of this sign is “Trached dykes french kiss without coming up for air”). From a cyborgian perspective, this sign is brilliantly provocative and productive. It draws on the pervasive idea that adaptive technologies grant superior abilities,not merely replacing a lost capacity but enhancing it, yet it does so in a highly subversive way. The message here isn’t about blending in, about passing as normal or hypernormal, but about publicly announcing the viability of a queer disabled location. It’s disnormalizing, adamantly refusing compulsory heterosexuality, compulsory able bodiedness, and homonormativity. As Corbett O’Toole argues, it challenges the perceived passivity of disabled women, presenting them as actively pleasuring their partners, thereby graphically refuting stereotypes linking physical disability with nonsexuality.]

[horrorcitos]

Rose ✺ melancholighost

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[earthenfaegeleh]

[ID: Four photos of flowers in a grassy meadow. The first and fourth photos are the same image, and contain pink and white flowers with a yellow center and a sunflower-like petal shape. There are also some purple flowers in a different shape nearby. The second and third images- also the same photo- have pink and red flowers that look similar to foxglove, as well as flowers of different shapes that are purple, yellow, and pink.]

[bugthingsdaily]

today's bug thing is this embroidered butterfly!