Horror Vacui

how strange it is to be anything at all

[fire-escapist]

does anyone I know still use tumblr or will I just be screaming into the void

because both are fine

[principleofplenitude]

“The first note known to have sounded on earth was an E natural. It was produced some 165 million years ago by a katydid (a kind of cricket) rubbing its wings together, a fact deduced by scientists from the remains of one of these insects, preserved in amber. Consider, too, the love life of the mosquito. When a male mosquito wishes to attract a mate, his wings buzz at a frequency of 600Hz, which is the equivalent of D natural. The normal pitch of the female’s wings is 400Hz, or G natural. Just prior to sex, however, male and female harmonise at 1200Hz, which is, as Michael Spitzer notes in his extraordinary new book, The Musical Human, ‘an ecstatic octave above the male’s D’. ‘Everything we sing’, Spitzer adds, ‘is just a footnote to that.’”

— “Symphony of a Thousand Millennia“ from Literary Review

[sangefiruze]

"we were born alone & we die alone" you delivered yourself during birth? built all the roofs that have ever given you shelter? sown the wheat in your bread?? weaved the clothes on your back??? wrote all the books youve ever read and the music youve ever listened to????? who made the literal bed youre going to die in - you, all alone?

[themilanobitch]

I will never emotionally recover from this show

[kattobingu-deactivated20140128]

kaiba made it real weird real fast but yami kept him in line

[kattobingu-deactivated20140128]

im glad this post is getting notes because it still makes me laugh

[fitzefitcher]

“kaiba my friends were kidnapped what the fuck bruh”

[achievement-hunter]

[xelbleedsglitter]

Kaiba is living alone in his own separate more intensely anime universe than everyone else

[jaubaius]

Vampire and werewolf dating

[runcibility]

OP I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU DIDN’T CREDIT THIS, BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH MORE!

This is an ongoing series by @sarahseeandersen called “Fangs” - it’s absolutely worth following and keeping up with!

https://tapas.io/episode/1559785

[cottoncandyinsides]

Sharing the credited version!

[inficetegodwottery]

[phuntasm]

[twenty-one-fnaf-phans]

[sindri42]

In

no

particular

order

[pisswallet]

really cool. so its a goth and a hippie

[fenris-calls]

Me and whatever goth gf I’m given

[netherworldpost]

Fangs

by Sarah Andersen

ISBN: 978-1524860677

[unclefather]

If you ever want to know how bad something is, ask a kid. They’re weirdly honest. I just asked a 6 year old to smell an old blanket and tell me what it smells like and he said “can I say a cuss?” And I told him to go ahead and he said it smelled like “chain link butthole”

[nevver]

Beware the Ides of March

[ankle-beez]

[toskarin]

you know how there's all those ancient mythical steels that can't be reproduced in modern day because the techniques are completely lost

the internet equivalent of that is the y2k otaku wallpaper aesthetic. you can't make those anymore, only forgeries that mimic the originals

[etrianodysseyobsession-hd-deact]

The Bryce plugins that give you these textures can no longer be run because the versions of Photoshop that run them no longer work on any modern computer. It’s like ginkgo trees no longer having insects alive to pollinate them.

[mapsontheweb]

References to “the Seven Seas” are found throughout history, but the exact list varies by time and culture. Here are three of the most popular lists

[yesterdaysprint]

The Washington Post, Washington DC, February 25, 1915

[fuckyeahstsebastian]

(video tweet: https://twitter.com/Etherelle/status/1484410925490708481?s=20)

the work of etherelle: https://t.co/dPhLw3xuRx (carrd)

happy belated st sebastian day. no idea how to tag this.

[elizabethplaid]

The eyes here really seal the deal, though the toothpick-arrow is also a nice touch.

Also reminds me of the story that was circulating around awhile ago, where the narrator had made some sort of jam-filled bread effigy of Jesus for Easter or somesuch.

[joasakura]

@gallusrostromegalus !!!

[gallusrostromegalus]

T'was me with the Bread Jesus Story and the Bread Jesus Attempt One and Bread Jesus Attempt Two and I am SO GLAD THAT SOME OTHER PERSON IS MAKING TERRIBLE CARBY CATHOLIC EFFIGIES.

[drtrinitysantos]

the CDC recommends that you return to work even if you're showing symptoms of being a giant cockroach

[1116665-555567777]

“In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness - from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis”

— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby.

[northwindow]

Franz Wright, from God’s Silence

[litcrarum]

Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923