light-soaked days

was one of those 2014 tumblr teens but I'm inexplicably (and intermittently) back for more of this beloved hellsite ! enjoy current obsessions musicals, Green brothers, board games AND old-time classic favourites: queer shit, youtube, magic & literature. It's a variety blog, baby !!

[vintage-every-day]

The first female gardeners employed at London's Kew Gardens. Eleanor Morland, Gertrude Cope and Alice Hutchings. Photographed in 1896.

[userlesbian]

20 years of AmazingPhil 🎉

[lezbianz]

being a humanities major who’s friends with stem majors is so funny because you’ll ask your friends what they’re doing today and they’re like “UGH it’s so stressful i have to stabilize the reactor core for my nuclear power midterm and then i have to build the supercomputer from i have no mouth yet i must scream for my electrical engineering homework :/ what about you” and you’re like “oh well i have to read a fun little book and write an essay about gender.” and they still think you have it worse

[freakinflipflop]

Being a stem major who's friends with humanities majors is ALSO funny bc you ask what's goin on with them and they're like "oh yeah my day's pretty good! I only have to read 50 pages for this one class today and half a book for another one. It's much better than last week where I read three books and wrote a 10 page paper about their overlapping motifs for one class while also researching a niche period of time that our library doesn't have any resources on. How's it been for you?" and you're like "oh I have a lil packet of fun math puzzles due tomorrow." and they look at you like you're carrying the weight of the universe on your back

[tesria]

This is your reminder that just because something falls within the skillset you've practiced, so you can do it and you don't find it particularly hard or stressful relative to other things, it doesn't mean it isn't actually hard work you should be proud of yourself for accomplishing!

[3amfanfiction]

this applies to writing and art, too

[sandersstudies]

National Theatre is streaming their rendition of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde this week for free on YouTube. The production is a delight.

This show is one I constantly return to as a theatre educator for middle/high school, and it is MUCH better enjoyed when performed rather than on paper.

[sandersstudies]

Whatever the opposite of rolling in his grave is, Oscar Wilde is doing it

[sandersstudies]

I just found out they also have accessible BSL (British Sign Language) and audio description versions. The closed captioning has also been done correctly (a bare minimum many YouTube videos do not meet).

[8nin]

i'm actually very normal if you ignore everything i have ever said and done

[luckymohair]

Valentine: Puzzle Purse, 1826, Anonymous, British or American, 19th century

[petrichor-mist]

"The light of the sun had failed and the air was filled with a yellow glow..."

[echoesofsaturn]

"slut era" i say as i rot and decay in my bedroom and watch the years pass me by as i miss out on core experiences other people my age are having while i think about the past

[huariqueje]

Tales by the Campfire - Carl Bretzke , 2021.

American, b. 1954 -

Oil on linen , 11 x 14 in.

[ivynightshade]

how i would beg, medusa, for her to look at me, and midas, for his golden clutch / all of this would ruin me / but at least i would be seen and touched.

fatima aamer bilal, from moony moonless sky’s ‘how can i escape my mind?’

[lovecrumbss]

oh to have foxes play where I've laid to rest

[feral-ballad]

Kim Hyesoon, tr. by Don Mee Choi, from Autobiography of Death; “Face of Rythm”

[bhloomest]

[never-obsolete]

Microsoft Productivity Pack for Windows (1992)

[foone]

Why do the computer and printer have a complicated relationship

[andthosearesmalleragents]

have you met a printer

[alcrego]

[prokopetz]

The thing about fantasy worldbuilding is that verisimilitude and the rule of cool are not enemies. Someone who looks at a pod of flying whales and asks "what do they eat?" is not being a spoilsport – they're engaging with the premise. There are any number of much more serious objections to aerial megafauna than lack of any obvious role in a trophic web that could have been raised if they just wanted to shoot the idea down; a person who wants to know what the flying whales eat is all but explicitly yes-anding the idea. Sure, you might not have an answer at your fingertips, but acting like it's unimaginative for them to have asked is a really fucking weird way to react.

[fleebites]

13oct - ‘the curious and quite dreadful sensation of being forgotten’

(for ‘fucked up deertober’ by @murderbeast )