per aspera ad astra

21. ana with one n, thanks i like killer whales, period dramas and nesta archeron

[frogndtoad]

that night, frog and toad were both happy

[satellitemp3]

with all the hype the shadow and bone show is getting lately, i just want to say that i will be blocking anyone who has the audacity to thirst over the d*rkling in my presence. this is a threat, a warning, and a promise.

[the-bookshop]

Source.

[longmemoried]

@literatureladies mission 05: get to know the members

Zofia Boguska “Zofia any luck with the tools?” “Luck is useless,” she said.

[trueloveistreacherous]

The Good Place (2016-2020) Created by Michael Schur

[headspace-hotel]

When I was younger, I was always fascinated by how people living through major events throughout history were always so focused on their day to day lives. When I read diaries and primary sources, people would be talking about huge events with worldwide significance but they would just be...living their lives. Like COME ON a world war is happening and your main area of focus is how the rationing sucks and how you want to go to dances and stuff after All This Is Over?

But I get it now.

Now I understand.

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Passionate Apprentice,”

[franzkafkagf]

film reviews that will haunt me forever

[lesbiancolumbo]

literally speechless rn bc hi op this is my letterboxd review

[peachyln]

Screw playing an actual song as my first dance at my future wedding. I'm playing the music that Lizzie and Darcy first danced to in Pride And Prejudice (2005)

[manateeselfies]

And now, for The Best Children's Book Ever

I’M LAUGHING SO HARD. THAT’S IT GUYS, THAT’S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.

[yesterdaysprint]

New-York Tribune, New York, January 2, 1920

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

i cant think of the fact that humans send messages saying ’where are you? who are you?’ from earth to the giant and empty space all around us for too long because it makes me cry so hard and feel so human and lonely

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

things that humans have sent to space as a friendly gesture that make me cry my eyes out:

- whale songs

- sounds of footsteps, laughter and a kiss

- an hour-long recording of the brainwaves of someone who was, among other thoughts, thinking about what it is like to fall in love

- an illustration of two people holding hands

- so many sentences in almost 60 languages, including these: ’Friends of space, how are you all? Have you eaten yet? Come visit us if you have time.’ ’Greetings from a computer programmer in a small university town on planet Earth.’ ’Are you well?’ ’We are happy here and you be happy there.’ ’How's everyone? We all very much wish to meet you, if you're free please come and visit.’ ’Wishing you happiness, health and many years.’ ’Welcome home. It is a pleasure to receive you.’

[lorelaigilmoure]

#same energy

+ bonus:

[butiknewyou]

“my waves meet your shore ever and evermore” is the most romantic lyric because waves have high and low points and shorelines are constantly changing and re-establishing themselves, so she’s saying that they will both grow and change as people, but always will come together

[summers-in-hollywood]

Elizabeth Taylor and Janet Leigh on the set of Little Women, 1949

[unbreakable-maggie-schmidt]

“Well, I have a bad trick of standing before the fire, and so I burn my frocks, and I scored this one; and, though it’s nicely mended, it shows, and Meg told me to keep still, so no one would see it. You may laugh, if you want to; it is funny, I know.”

But Laurie didn’t laugh; he only looked down a minute, and the expression of his face puzzled Jo, when he said very gently, – “Never mind that; I’ll tell you how we can manage: there’s a long hall out there, and we can dance grandly, and no one will see us. Please come?”

Jo thanked him, and gladly went, wishing she had two neat gloves, when she saw the nice, pearl-colored one her partner wore. The hall was empty, and they had a grand polka; for Laurie danced well, and taught her the German step, which delighted Jo, being full of swing and spring.

Jo and Laurie’s private dance has always been one of my favorite moments from the book and a favorite scene in every film adaptation (and the 2019 version is no exception).

[arborealgargoyle]

I made the absolutely fucktacular mistake of giving my dog buttons that I recorded words on to talk with and she keeps waking me up in the thrice damned wee hours o the night to tell me and doubtless she could not pOSSIBLY wait until morning to say that she wants to eat the cat’s food

[arborealgargoyle]

apparently when my sleep cycle is disrupted at a very precise interval my view of the universe fractures and alters because I may have not been religious before but now I believe deeply that god with a capital G denied Dogs with a lowercase d the ability to speak for a Reason and we should respect Her infinite wisdom on this matter

[arborealgargoyle]

I have soared too close to the sun, in my arrogance I have built a tower too high unto the sky- it is made of cheap plastic recordable buttons and it is about to topple and take human language, as my dog knows it, down with it

[arborealgargoyle]

Me: *is awoken to the sound of my own voice echoing in the dark passages of the night*

Me: How could I have laughed at Victor, how could I have scorned his anguish in the sight of his glorious but unnatural creation??? Only now do I understand, only now-

My dog in the background who has taken my voice as her own: dinner dinner dinner