eleven below @elevenbelow - Tumblr Blog

I find it endlessly fascinating that most humans just want someone who will get up in the middle of the night to close the windows with them when it starts down pouring. We want someone to dry our dishes after we wash them. We just want another person to do mundane activities with. We want to tell someone how the copy machine broke at work and we want to listen to how Debra is causing office drama again. We just want something so simple. We want human connection and honesty and to be bored with someone else instead of bored alone.

stars-bean

“The time of hot chocolaty mornings and toasty marshmallow evenings.”

Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) dir. Karl Geurs

#autumn

thyla

get to know me ⇢ endless list of favorites • tv shows • Black Sails (6/?)

#black sails

thyrell

just came up with a really good 4 word cooking horror story but idk if you guys are ready for it

thyrell

2 cups vanilla extract

mabeltanaka

#howard stark #peggy carter #what if

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WHATIF...? - Howard Stark Icons

#howard stark

scheharazade

The dog turns and looks, waits to be carried up the two steps. Inside the house she drops like a show onto her blanket, a thud, an adjustment... I’m on the couch because the dog on the blanket gets worried at night. During the day she sleeps the catnappy sleep of the elderly, but when it gets dark her eyes open and she is agitated, trying to stand whenever I leave the room, settling down only when I’m next to her. We are in this together, the dying game, and I read for hours in the evening with one foot on her back...

Jo Ann Beard, The Fourth State of Matter

beholdingslut

As they spoke, a dog who was lying there lifted his head and pricked up his ears. It was Argos, Odysseus’ dog; he had trained him and brought him up as a puppy, but never hunted with him before he sailed off to Troy.

[...]

As soon as he was aware of Odysseus, he wagged his tail and flattened his ears, but he lacked the strength to get up and go to his master. Odysseus wiped a tear away, turning aside to keep the swineherd from seeing it, and he said, “Eumaeus, it is surprising that such a dog, of such quality, should be lying here on a dunghill. He is a beauty, but I can’t tell if his looks were matched by his speed or if he was one of those pampered table dogs, which are kept around just for show.”

[...]

And just then death came and darkened the eyes of Argos, who had seen Odysseus again after twenty years.

Homer, The Odyssey, (17.290 - 327), trans. Stephen Mitchell.

scheharazade

keuhkopussirotta

#cw animal death #dogs #poetry

vanessagillings

Stopping in for a moment to show you my piece from Gallery Nucleus’ Oceans and Currents show that opens tonight at 5 PM PST! This is a really cool show full of marine art, and 20% of proceeds go to supporting Oceana to help save sea life. 💛🦦

#art

beneaththemoon4

That intimate moment between you and the book you have just read the last words of, where you sit there taking in the enormity of what you have just finished.

#yes #books

drizzlingtears

Love & Paintings

#art

sleevesareforlosers

hey fully vaxxed (american) people ur still gonna like. wear a mask right. on account of there’s no visual indicator that ur vaccinated. and on account of u wanna give service workers and nonvaxxed people peace of mind when ur interacting with them. and on account of vaccines aren’t 100 percent effective. and on account of so many antimaskers and antivaxxers are gonna lie and say they’re vaccinated so they can not wear one and then ur at an even higher risk. yknow. on account of vaccines aren’t 100 percent effective.

#seriously this