the hellsite records

30 and living in the land of oz. a pretentious crazy cat woman, miscellaneous music, the internet. i spend like 98% of my time on tumblr, and thus i have no social life and have become incredibly boring. wanna know more? click the "about me" button above this. and for considering followers: follow at your own risk.

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[uroko]

癒しの自然風景 // Yamagata, Gifu ♡

[misterlemonztenth]

01-07-25 | Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia Mydas) misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

[innerchildabortionclinic]

the "we need this version of [x]" memes always have me in hysterics for some reason

[innerchildabortionclinic]

are there any more

[floridakilo]

how it feels to escape the 18-24 age bracket

[masterscrafts]

'FORMOSE’ GREEN GLASS VASE by LALIQUE 1924

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Joonas Ryynänen

[blueiscoool]

Miniature Skeleton: A Ghostly 2,000-Year-Old Party Favor From an Ancient Roman Banquet

This spooky skeleton was likely made to remind Roman banqueters that life is short.

This small, bronze skeleton is one of only a dozen known examples of an ancient Roman "larva convivalis" — a "banquet ghost" figurine given out as a party favor 2,000 years ago.

The skeleton originally had jointed arms and legs, but only a portion of its left leg remains today. Its skull features large, round eye sockets and a toothy grin. The bronze figurine measures roughly 2.6 inches (6.6 centimeters) tall and is in the collection of the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, California.

According to a 1980 study by then-Getty curator Faya Causey Frel, the skeleton was a kind of "memento mori" — a symbol of the brevity of life and the inevitability of death. The spooky skeletons were probably handed out at dinner parties in a nod to Epicureanism, the philosophical system that considered that because death is humans' main fear, we should take pleasure in what life has to offer.

Banqueting and death were often linked in Roman art and literature, according to the Getty.

In the novel "The Satyricon," written in the late first century A.D. by Petronius, a man named Trimalchio was hosting a dinner party. The narrator tells of "a slave brought in a silver skeleton, so contrived that the joints and movable vertebra could be turned in any direction. He threw it down upon the table a time or two, and its mobile articulation caused it to assume grotesque attitudes."

Trimalchio, the host, then exclaims that "this skeleton before us here is as important as we ever were! Let's live then while we may and life is dear."

The Getty example of the banquet ghost lacks scientific accuracy. "It was perhaps more important that the bony specters were lively," Causey Frel wrote.

By Kristina Killgrove.

[anchovy]

Made a lowball offer on eBay as a joke and it got accepted. uh oh.

[anchovy]

I’m so fucked

[enthusispastic]

I think the best part of Tobias/Rachel is that the whole is like a billion times shittier than the sum of its parts.

Tobias is the central tragic figure of the animorphs, even if he doesn't get as many books. He's literally so chosen one coded. He's a suicidal trans bird. He's full of hope for humanity. He is deeply alienated from his own humanity. He survived abuse and neglect. His dad's a fucking alien prince. He saved a different alien species from extinction, and became the namesake of their first free leader in like, three generations. God talks to him personally and doesn't do anything that he wants. He's the most character of all time. He's just like me for real. No one is doing it like him.

And Rachel!!!! Girl has the best character arc of the entire book series (outside the Hork Bajir Chronicles but I digress). She's a princess. She's a monster. She's the pretty one. She beat a man to death with her own severed arm. She sacrificed herself for humanity. She self-destructively followed orders to her own demise. She almost gave up her human life and became a cat forever just to comfort a crying friend. She's Satan's most specialist favorite teenager. And she was a Packard Award winning student to boot!

But together, they form the messiest, most dysfunctional situationship that any middle schooler ever read about. They love each other. They flirt with other people (or birds). Rachel cared about Tobias when everyone else thought he was some weirdo who would never amount to anything. She also wants him to stop living as his authentic self because it's inconvenient to her. Tobias thinks that Rachel is the most beautiful creature ever to grace the earth. He also enables her most self-destructive tendencies and romanticizes her for being the monster she doesn't want to become. He knows that she loves him no matter what. He was mortified that she saw him eating roadkill, and fears her judgement like death itself. She celebrates his birthday with him, even though he forgot when his birthday even was. She also, and I cannot stress this enough, thinks that he should leave the fight that gives him his only living purpose and stop living in the body that he's chosen for himself because she doesn't know how to be a bird's girlfriend (and like, fair. Not a normal situation tbh). They are doomed by the narrative. Together ❤️

Literally nobody is doing it like K A Applegate. Look at these two. What a goddamn mess.

[mothyandthesquid]

If we only have one life here on earth, I think we should fill it with colour and joy. Pthalo Green, sometimes also nicknamed bisexual couch green, is the internet’s choice for colour of the year 2026. It’s actually really gorgeous and very versatile if you can get over that “feminine” urge to shrink yourself and conform by wear regime-approved grey. You’ve been told you can’t wear this colour but it isn’t true, you can enjoy your one precious life in vivid hues.

Mothy and the Squid

Scottish micro-business creating hand dyed luxury indie yarn for knitting and crochet.

[selfhealingmoments]

[herpsandbirds]

Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus), males, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, Yunnan, China

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Wild Safari Saga

[rubenniall]

this website really is you and your seven mutuals

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[salamandorange]

The most PATHETIC lil baby sounds...

[whitebear-ofthe-watertribe]

I love when little creatures who are entirely loved and well cared for have the BIGGEST baby reactions to normal things. Like yes sweet pea, you DO have the hardest life of anyone ever, for sure, and you’re SO BRAVE about this minor inconvenience of *checks notes* having some water touch you

[cephalon-sancti]

There is nothing sadder and more pathetic than a baby marine mammal having to get into the water. They are suffering the most out of any baby animal ever. How dare they be introduced to their natural environment.

[captain-price-returns]

Arrest everyone involved.

[captain-price-returns]

Money saved: maybe a couple million dollars.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

[yamelcakes]

world’s most evil man and I’m not being hyperbolic