The Frailty of Genius

THE FRAILTY OF GENIUS. Hello! I am bittergreens on ao3. I like to shout a lot. Mostly with excitement. This blog is a testament to my love of all things Johnlock and my obsessive love for that pairing. However, it also entails descriptions of my manic life as a struggling academic, evidence of my love of books and writing, pictures of things that I find interesting and inspiring (green things! sparkly things! old things!), pictures of beautiful women, and basically anything else that is just really gay. If you'd like to help support my writing efforts (fic and otherwise!) so I might finance future nautical fieldtrips, etc etc, there is a donate button here now where you can do so! I so, so appreciate anything you might want to contribute. :)

[titsay]

[steveyockey]

survival mechanism they don’t emphasize enough is memorizing a poem. you memorize a poem you have a little lift raft for a variety of situations

[kness]

Hang in there, little guy.

[ruraltears]

[die-rosastrasse]

Various stars & moon details from my gouache paintings 🌙✨

[writingdose]

Source

[makingqueerhistory]

The history of the first gay kiss on British TV | Xtra Magazine

In 1970, Sir Ian McKellen and James Laurenson made history with a kiss in a filmed production of “Edward II”

In 1969, Sir Ian McKellen and James Laurenson starred in a production of Christopher Marlowe’s classic Renaissance play Edward II as part of the Prospect Theatre Company. The production would lead to the first gay kiss to be shown on television in the U.K. Edward II is one of the earliest English history plays. A contemporary and rival of William Shakespeare, Marlowe dramatized the ill-fated king’s reign and highlighted his relationship with one of his “favourites,” Piers Gaveston, an English nobleman who was rumoured to be his lover.

[ladymirdan]

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[starfoozle]

Heatwave Recipe Recommendations

The heat’s been brutal this summer but we still gotta eat! If you’re like me, heat might suppress your appetite, and the last thing any of us want is to sweat over a hot stove and oven when it’s already boiling outside. Here are some of my favorite hot-weather recipes to keep hydrated and fed with when the weather is unbearable! (All recipes should be un-paywalled).

NYT’s best gazpacho (lives up to its name!!)

Persian cold cucumber soup (if you like tzatziki you will like this!)

Eric Kim’s cold noodles with tomato (infinitely riffable Korean flavor profile — for a creamier and less brothy take, try these cold sesame noodles too)

Vietnamese chicken and herb salad (this is an excellent time to get a rotisserie chicken so you don’t have to turn the oven on)

Radish sandwiches with butter and salt (and in a similar vein, if you dig this flavor combo you should try this Polish cottage cheese dip on some good rye bread or even crackers)

It’s still a little early in the season, but you can never go wrong with a BLT (or, if you don’t eat bacon, try this tomato furikake sandwich in its place)

Infinite iterations of pasta salad! You can use anything you got but here is a template I like.

Assorted dense bean salads. This back pocket canned salad is a weird combo of jarred ingredients but it slaps, this hoagie-inspired one is super satisfying, and cowboy caviar is a classic for a reason.

Poke bowls! Canned tuna mixed with some kewpie mayo and sriracha is a budget-friendly riff on the usual ahi and makes everything taste like a spicy tuna roll, but use whatever proteins you like, this is more of a loose template.

Please feel free to add some of your own favorite summer recipes in the replies and comments! We’ll get through this together. 🤝🤝🤝

[flintandpyrite]

If you can buy pre cooked or canned beets at the store, chłodnik (beet yogurt soup) is a great choice. You can leave out the radishes if you can’t get them.

I also love sardines on fresh bread and butter with assorted vegetables. Buy the fanciest canned sardines you can afford but even regular ones are pretty good. Plus, very healthy!

[coffinbutch]

This requires cooking some of its ingredients but here's another eastern European cold soup that I like:

Okroshka (Cold Summer Soup)

Cold summer soup Okroshka is made with boiled and fresh vegetables, eggs, fresh summer herbs, and meat. Perfect option for hot summer days

I make it vegetarian by leaving out the meat and adding some white beans + upping the seasoning

[spookfished]

Mul-naengmyeon (Korean cold noodles in chilled broth) 물냉면

Korean icy cold noodles are so savory and refreshing, they are an awesome way to cool down in the summer but I eat them all year round. Why?

its a bit elaborate, but im a big fan of mul-naengmyeon! its a cold noodle soup :] maangchi has a cute video for it here

[strawberrygardenkisses]

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ Name moodboard for Lorelei ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪

[thesobsister]

Dora Maar, (Untitled) (c.1935)

[frogmp3]

one time we were listening to fleetwood mac in the car and my sister who was probably 4 at the time asked, without being prompted, “can girls marry girls?” and THAT is the power of stevie nicks

[wintersangelic]

"i asked chatgpt--" okay well i asked the angel of music and he said i was an insolent boy and a slave of fashion.

[terraswallows]

The perfect counter.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Julie D'Aubigny killing a transphobe here <3

[high-quality-tiktoks]

When there’s literally nowhere else to go…

[party-gilmore]

Genuinely one of the best most effective commercial I’ve seen in years i literally want to go there there’s nothing they have that’s any different from the gas station by is but the energy here is evocative and i want to gooooooo

[maykitz]