i say it's love

Taylor.Glasgow.all tv all the time.especially gay ladies on tv.the smell of old books.hammocks.great music on vinyl.being barefoot.trains.about me.

[soracities]

the way ivan aivazovsky looks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.

[soracities]

love is surrounding yourself with people who see you this clearly

[ataehone]

Still the freakiest fact about him is that despite being as tall as a person or more, he banged out these beauties in a day or two at most (and smaller ones ina matter of hours). The longest he spent on a painting, at age 81, to make his largest ever painting, was TEN DAYS:

It is 2.9×4.3 meters large. That’s 9'4"×14'1" for people in other measurement systems. It’s HUGE. There are artists out there that spend years on paintings much smaller than this. He was not one of them.

He also didn’t only paint the sea, but he MOSTLY painted the sea. Very few people could draw light filtering through waves the way this guy did and apparently it was tied into his layering technique that allowed him to paint so goddamn fast.

He is obviously my most favorite painter ever.

[soracities]

!!!

[peach-foxgloves]

No one ever tell me anything bad about the person who runs this account.

the person who runs this account, Katie Gouldin, is an evolutionary biologist who has an EXCELLENT podcast called Creature Feature which compares and contrasts the weird behaviors of man and beast! she is super cute and funny too!

[lavender-lily]

oh thank GOD

[andypantsx3]

just want to add i love how much she hates elon

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[baddywronglegs]

She is also credited by the Audubon society with coining the word “birb”

[madlori]

Also source for probably the best reaction image in history:

[cabinporn]

An off-grid cabin, perched atop 10 sloped acres of redwoods on the California coast. Designed, built and owned by partners Jeff Waldman and Molly Fiffer, and constructed over the course of one year, by the pair and their friends.

Clad in local redwood siding, with birch plywood walls and exposed Douglas fir timbers, the cabin is outfitted with large doors that allow the cabin and deck to function as a single indoor/outdoor space.

The couple had no prior design or construction experience, beyond the 18 months of smaller projects on the property, which led up to the cabin build. They spent a year salvaging most of the windows and the panoramic door, which the cabin was designed around. The rest of the design was informed by their capabilities and by the constraints of the site.

To reduce costs, the kitchen was constructed from standard wire shelving and mounted to Ikea countertops with closet rod hardware. The cooler slides out on casters and the propane stove is a utilitarian RV model. The shelves, bench, and stow-away loft ladder are made from slabs of madrone, which were chainsaw milled from trees felled on the cabin site. The redwood timbers and siding came from a neighboring sawyer.

The communal weekend getaway, shared among dozen of friends, also features a series of suspended tree decks, elevated outdoor shower, wood fired hot tub, and a host of camp activities, such as workshops, axe throwing and archery.

More photos: elevatedspaces.ca / @elevatedspaces

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[writers-hq]

Accurately-titled novels - part 2

(Part 1)

Writers’ HQ

[writers-hq]

Accurately-titled novels - part 1

(Part 2)

Writers’ HQ

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

[catchymemes]

[anachronic-cobra]

This was so ridiculously drawn out and the conclusion was so obvious yet still I couldn’t tell where this was going

[dashaibo]

Funny, despite the outdated memes.

[catchymemes]

Chance of a lifetime for an epic trick

The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought Captain John DS. Phillips, the result. The Warrimoo’s position was LAT 0º 31’ N and LONG 179 30’ W. The date was 31 December 1899.

“Know what this means?” First Mate Payton broke in, “We’re only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line”. Captain Phillips was prankish enough to take full advantage of the opportunity for achieving the navigational freak of a lifetime.

He called his navigators to the bridge to check & double check the ship’s position. He changed course slightly so as to bear directly on his mark. Then he adjusted the engine speed.

The calm weather & clear night worked in his favor. At mid-night the SS Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line! The consequences of this bizarre position were many:

The forward part (bow) of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere & in the middle of summer.

The rear (stern) was in the Northern Hemisphere & in the middle of winter.

The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899.

In the bow (forward) part it was 1 January 1900.

—

This ship was therefore not only in:

Two different days,

Two different months,

Two different years,

Two different seasons

But in two different centuries - all at the same time!

[probablyvampirerpgideas]

Make a Vampire character who’s lived through several waves of the common language’s development and can’t let go if certain gramatical habbits from different time eras.

So like, thou ist a horrid creature, an absolute cur, but go off i guess

[anachronistic-cat]

… can i use that phrase irl?

[probablyvampirerpgideas]

Absolutely you can and I encourage more uses of similar phrases that just completely fuck up the chronology of the english langauge. I wanna hear 15th century english mixed with surfer speak mixed with current age internet lingo like all the time.

[the-argumentative-viper]

Like this? Well my dude, seems like a weasel hath not such a deal of splean as you’re toss’d with. Chill already, you’re not valid.

[nuttersincorporated]

You are an unrighteous, bastardly gullion. Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell. When you die, I will face God and walk backwards into hell just so that I can beat your ass in the afterlife too.

[fromthemindofatwentyorotherlycan]

I love the idea of a vampire who’s language travels back in time as they get pissed.

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

I grieve for thee in these trying times. Alexa play Despacito

[bardbreakfast]

Reading these is like literary whiplash

[catchymemes]

[gingersofficial]

[chumchunom]

[hotboyproblems]

Anyone else only in their 20s but feel like they are running out of time to get their life together??

[threehoursfromtroy]

Don’t. I felt this way too, in my twenties, but you know what? I began transitioning at 30. I went back to grad school at 32. I’m living my best life, and while I’m a little behind the curve compared to some of my classmates on some things, I’m also so far ahead of them on others. You need follow nobody’s schedule but your own. Life is hard and the world isn’t doing any of us favors. Be kind to yourself, and remember that you still have plenty of time. The only difference between starting now and 5 or 10 years earlier is now you have more experience.

[happilynever-deactivated2019031]

I needed to hear this so badly

[tylerposey]

[gretagerwisg]

We’ll make heaven a place on earth.

Black Mirror: San Junipero (2016, Owen Harris)

[historical-nonfiction]

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”

—

Haile Selassie

[blackqueerblog]

Apparently, yes. We can.