gloam chomsky

she/her | nineties baby | mountain queer, sometimes-writer, charming bottomless pit of enthusiasm and longing | ao3 | asks

[msprayforever]

[flavinbagel]

Unrestrained winter fun

[subnitida]

Félix Thiollier, Lady with her horse on a snowy day, 1899

[taxidermycanine]

don't care + running + jumping + skipping + hopping + having fun + playing

[landwriter]

heated rivalry is great fun so far but coming to it from a fandom where the juggernaut ship spent a total of like nine minutes on screen together is almost too much enrichment. I feel like a shelter dog let onto grass for the first time. what do you mean they hook up multiple times in episode one. this is too rich for my blood

[landwriter]

formally serving notice to my friends and followers that the gay hockey show has gotten me too 🫡

[gaytanic-panic]

F.A.C.T (Feminists Against Censorship Task Force) 1984 & 1985

[deejayphoto]

Sunday Afternoon

[brigantias-isles]

November Evening in a Welsh Wood 

by James T. Watts. c.1890

[holespoles]

Józef Wilkoń "The story of the kind wolf"

[cedarboughs]

Perspectives on Yamnuska, January 15

[landwriter]

just wanted to thank fandom, and in particular everybody who has ever let me a long heartfelt comment on my fic, because experiencing that as a creator of things has made me realize i myself am going through life as a coward. not only has your commenting materially changed me & encouraged me to write, but it has also made me change how i engage with all kinds of art because i cannot un-learn how powerful those kinds of comments can be.

i went to a show on the weekend and loved a band - big enough to tour nationally, small enough to be the opener at a $20 bar show. we chatted and i bought merch and it was perfectly lovely but i’d listened to their album since getting tickets and have come to love it in a much more specific and personal way than “awesome set, you guys were great”

in the past i would not have done anything with these feelings, and if i shared them with anyone it would have been my friends - certainly not the band. but instead i wrote them a long and earnest message the next day. embarrassing! horrible! but knowing what it has meant to me to receive such a message made me push through it and hit send even while wanting to pitch myself into a pit of personal mortification.

but what do you know, lo and behold, shocking no one except the cop and coward in my head, the lead singer replied thanking me, and talked more about their plans and music, in an even longer wall of text.

it’s things like this that keep me going as an artist, he said. thank you again, my heart is so full

anyways, so is mine, thinking of all the people who have told me exactly how something i shared made them feel, and made me confront how pointless and miserly it is to sit on my feelings and gratitude just because i am shy of showing them; what a sad dead end for the transformative touch of creation, when it could be reflected right back into the heart of the person who reached out into your guts in the first place.

here’s to those who keep it all going, and in doing so, spread it to the rest of us, rolling outward and outward, filling up hearts.

[everythingfox]

Keeping their feet warm

[toyastales]

12th–15th century Gothic door with iron lions medieval craftsmanship

[invisible-goats]

what's your word you never heard said so you always said it wrong in your head? mine is misled (i read is as my-zuld) (sorry for not using ipa i don't understand it, but you get the idea)

[tryan-a-bex]

Oh I heard of that one being mispronounced as missild misle-d I guess. I was astonished to learn that nish/neesh and nitch were the same word (niche).

[brightlyandwithbeautyy]

serendipity! learned it from a book and pronounced it serene-duh-pitty.

and for a long time I thought there were two words that meant the same thing, segway and segue (say-goo). I remember thinking it was odd they were so close, but just figured one must be French or something 😝

[landwriter]

first time i saw miniseries was referring to a bbc show & i figured it was a british word, singular minisery, pronounced min-IH-ser-ees. took me YEARS before i finally parsed it was mini + series. years. i was shocked. i still read it wrong in my head

(and on that note i’m not over social mores being pronounced like the eel. will never be ok with that)

[horreurscopes]

hey bro can i ask you a question that will reveal a deep and fundamental gap in my knowledge of the world

[topazlight]

of course bro opening up about your lack of knowledge and asking questions is the only way to fill in that fundamental gap

[landwriter]

who wants to have a fall picnic with me? the guest of honour will be this cottonwood tree

[landwriter]

Rules: without naming them, post a gif from ten of your favorite television shows, then tag ten people to do the same.

thank you @hardly-an-escape for the tag :) had to plumb the depths of my memory and also my netflix viewing history, but i’m v satisfied with the result. my id via tv:

my dream show therefore has all of the following:

comfortingly sensible people

totally unhinged people who claim to be fine

gay & bisexual disasters

love stories

highly trained specialists (who optionally are also disasters)

a whimsical touch of fantasy

brutal physicality

gardening tips

missing shows that are dear to my heart because tumblr does not see fit to gif them: grand designs (people's custom home building projects, kevin mccloud is skeptical), highway thru hell (semis have a bad time on the coquihalla but heavy wreckers are HERE TO HELP)

tagging my pals with impeccable taste and anyone who wants to do this too: @moorishflower @thirrith @chubsthehamster @dsudis @softest-punk @wordsinhaled @enchi-elm @fishfingersandscarves @ghostboyjules @xx-vergil-xx